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On 02/18/2016 01:16 AM, Matt Riedemann wrote:
> I don't think we have an official policy for stable backports with
> respect to translatable string changes.
>
> I'm looking at a release request for ironic-inspector on stable/liberty
> [1] and one of the changes in that has translatable string changes to
> user-facing error messages [2].
>
> mrunge brought up this issue in the stable team meeting this week also
> since Horizon has to be extra careful about backporting changes with
> translatable string changes.
>
> I think on the server side, if they are changes that just go in the
> logs, it's not a huge issue. But for user facing changes, should we
> treat those like StringFreeze [3]? Or only if the stable branches for
> the given project aren't getting translation updates? I know the server
> projects (at least nova) is still get translation updates on
> stable/liberty so if we do backport changes with translatable string
> updates, they aren't getting updated in stable. I don't see anything
> like that happening for ironic-inspector on stable/liberty though.

Hi!

I had this concern, but ironic-inspector has never had any actual 
translations, so I don't think it's worth blocking this (pretty 
annoying) bug fix based on that.

>
> Thoughts?
>
> [1] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279515/
> [2] https://review.openstack.org/#/c/279071/1/ironic_inspector/process.py
> [3] https://wiki.openstack.org/wiki/StringFreeze
>