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+1 to what Jay said.

I’m not sure whether the string freeze applies to bugs, but the defect that Matt mentioned (for which I authored the fix) adds a string, albeit to fix a bug.  Hoping it’s more desirable to have an untranslated correct message than a translated incorrect message.  :-)

- Joe
On Sep 5, 2014, at 3:41 PM, Jay Bryant <jsbryant at electronicjungle.net> wrote:

> Matt,
> 
> I don't think that is the right solution.
> 
> If the string changes I think the only problem is it won't be translated if it is thrown.   That is better than breaking the coding standard imho.
> 
> Jay
> 
> On Sep 5, 2014 3:30 PM, "Matt Riedemann" <mriedem at linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> On 9/5/2014 5:10 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Hi everyone,
> 
> We just hit feature freeze[1], so please do not approve changes that add
> features or new configuration options unless those have been granted a
> feature freeze exception.
> 
> This is also string freeze[2], so you should avoid changing translatable
> strings. If you have to modify a translatable string, you should give a
> heads-up to the I18N team.
> 
> Finally, this is also DepFreeze[3], so you should avoid adding new
> dependencies (bumping oslo or openstack client libraries is OK until
> RC1). If you have a new dependency to add, raise a thread on
> openstack-dev about it.
> 
> The juno-3 development milestone was tagged, it contains more than 135
> features and 760 bugfixes added since the juno-2 milestone 6 weeks ago
> (not even counting the Oslo libraries in the mix). You can find the full
> list of new features and fixed bugs, as well as tarball downloads, at:
> 
> https://launchpad.net/keystone/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/glance/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/nova/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/horizon/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/neutron/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/cinder/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/ceilometer/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/heat/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/trove/juno/juno-3
> https://launchpad.net/sahara/juno/juno-3
> 
> Many thanks to all the PTLs and release management liaisons who made us
> reach this important milestone in the Juno development cycle. Thanks in
> particular to John Garbutt, who keeps on doing an amazing job at the
> impossible task of keeping the Nova ship straight in troubled waters
> while we head toward the Juno release port.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> [1] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/FeatureFreeze
> [2] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StringFreeze
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/DepFreeze
> 
> 
> I should probably know this, but at least I'm asking first. :)
> 
> Here is an example of a new translatable user-facing error message [1].
> 
> From the StringFreeze wiki, I'm not sure if this is small or large.
> 
> Would a compromise to get this in be to drop the _() so it's just a string and not a message?
> 
> Maybe I should just shut-up and email the openstack-i18n mailing list [2].
> 
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/118535/
> [2] http://lists.openstack.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/openstack-i18n
> 
> -- 
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Matt Riedemann
> 
> 
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