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Doug Hellmann wrote on 3/10/2017 11:39 PM:
> Excerpts from Doug Hellmann's message of 2017-03-10 09:28:52 -0500:
>> Excerpts from Ian Y. Choi's message of 2017-03-10 01:22:40 +0900:
>>> Doug Hellmann wrote on 3/9/2017 9:24 PM:
>>>> Excerpts from Sean McGinnis's message of 2017-03-07 07:17:09 -0600:
>>>>> On Mon, Mar 06, 2017 at 09:06:18AM -0500, Sean Dague wrote:
>>>>>> On 03/06/2017 08:43 AM, Andreas Jaeger wrote:
>>>>>>> On 2017-03-06 14:03, Sean Dague  wrote:
>>>>>>>> I'm trying to understand the implications of
>>>>>>>> https://review.openstack.org/#/c/439500. And the comment in the linked
>>>>>>>> email:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> ">> Yes, we decided some time ago to not translate the log files anymore and
>>>>>>>>>> thus our tools do not handle them anymore - and in general, we remove
>>>>>>>>>> these kind of files."
>>>>>>>> Does that mean that all the _LE, _LI, _LW stuff in projects should be
>>>>>>>> fully removed? Nova currently enforces those things are there -
>>>>>>>> https://github.com/openstack/nova/blob/e88dd0034b1b135d680dae3494597e295add9cfe/nova/hacking/checks.py#L314-L333
>>>>>>>> and want to make sure our tools aren't making us do work that the i18n
>>>>>>>> team is ignoring and throwing away.
>>>>> So... just looking for a definitive statement on this since there has
>>>>> been some back and forth discussion.
>>>>>
>>>>> Is it correct to say - all projects may (should?) now remove all bits in
>>>>> place for using and enforcing the _Lx() translation markers. Only _()
>>>>> should be used for user visible error messages.
>>>>>
>>>>> Sean (smcginnis)
>>>>>
>>>> The situation is still not quite clear to me, and it would be
>>>> unfortunate to undo too much of the translation support work because
>>>> it will be hard to redo it.
>>>>
>>>> Is there documentation somewhere describing what the i18n team has
>>>> committed to trying to translate?
>>> I18n team describes translation plan and priority in Zanata -
>>> translation platform
>>>    : https://translate.openstack.org/ .
>>>
>>>>    I think I heard that there was a
>>>> shift in emphasis to "user interfaces", but I'm not sure if that
>>>> includes error messages in services. Should we remove all use of
>>>> oslo.i18n from services? Or only when dealing with logs?
>>> When I18n team decided to removal of log translations in Barcelona last
>>> October, there had been no
>>> discussion on the removal of oslo.i18n translation support for log messages.
>>> (I have kept track of what I18n team discussed during Barcelona I18n
>>> meetup on Etherpad - [1])
>>>
>>> Now I think that the final decision of oslo.i18n log translation support
>>> needs more involvement
>>> with translators considering oslo.i18n translation support, and also
>>> more people on community wide including
>>> project working groups, user committee, and operators as Matt suggested.
>>>
>>> If translating log messages is meaningful to some community members and
>>> some translators show interests
>>> on translating log messages, then I18n team can revert the policy with
>>> rolling back of translations.
>>> Translated strings are still alive in not only previous stable branches,
>>> but also in translation memory in Zanata - translation platform.
>>>
>>> I would like to find some ways to discuss this topic with more community
>>> wide.
>> I would suggest that we discuss this at the Forum in Boston, but I think
>> we need to gather some input before then because if there is a consensus
>> that log translations are not useful we can allow the code cleanup to
>> occur and not take up face-to-face time.
> I've started a thread on the operators mailing list [1].

Thanks a lot, Doug!

I do not know how to reply to [1] as an un-subscriber of 
openstack-operator mailing list using my Mail client program,
but since there is no response from APAC for several days [2], I asked 
Japanese & Chinese language coordinators and community leader /
ambassador to collect and tell opinions on [2].

I am now receiving opinions from Korean users & operators and currently 
there are about 10 comments all mentioning
that log translation functionality is not needed.

I will keep update if I receive more opinion on this issue.


With many thanks,

/Ian

[2] 
http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2017-March/012902.html

> Doug
>
> [1] http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-operators/2017-March/012887.html
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