[openstack-dev] [Oslo] Translating log and exception messages in Oslo libraries

Jay Bryant jsbryant at electronicjungle.net
Mon Jun 23 00:17:01 UTC 2014


+1 To translating oslo logs.  There is quite a bit of logging that comes
out of the libraries.   It should be logged for consistency using delayed
translation.

Jay
On Jun 20, 2014 8:22 AM, "Doug Hellmann" <doug.hellmann at dreamhost.com>
wrote:

> On Fri, Jun 20, 2014 at 8:40 AM, Mark McLoughlin <markmc at redhat.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi
> >
> > I'm not sure we've ever discussed this before, but I had previously
> > figured that we shouldn't translate log and exception messages in
> > oslo.messaging.
> >
> > My thinking is:
> >
> >   - it seems like an odd thing for a library to do, I don't know of
> >     examples of other libraries doing this .. but I haven't gone
> >     looking
> >
> >   - it involves a dependency on oslo.i18n
> >
> >   - more than just marking strings for translation and using
> >     gettextutils, you also need to set up the infrastructure for pushing
> >     the .pot files to transifex, pulling the .po files from .transifex
> >     and installing the .mo files at install time
> >
> > I don't feel terribly strongly about this except that unless someone is
> > willing to see this through and do the transifex and install-time work,
> > we shouldn't be doing the use-oslo.i18n and mark-strings-for-translation
> > work.
>
> I had thought we would do all of the oslo libraries, since so many of
> the log messages actually come from library code. I think Andreas has
> already set up most of the infrastructure needed to make the
> translation jobs work.
>
> We haven't done a great job of communicating the plan on log
> translations, and I'm currently looking for someone from the i18n team
> to step forward to be the point of contact on that work.
>
> Doug
>
> >
> > Mark.
> >
> >
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