[Openstack] I18n issue for OpenStack

Sean Dague sdague at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Apr 12 13:32:20 UTC 2012


On 04/12/2012 04:52 AM, Thierry Carrez wrote:
> Joshua Harlow wrote:
>> So there is a question here that I don’t understand.
>>
>> There a different levels of I18N, for say user facing error messages, or
>> for other things I consider UI (horizon).
>>
>> Those need to be I18N and all that. I think the larger part that I don’t
>> understand is why the things that are not the above (log messages) are
>> being internationalized.
>>
>> So what level do we want to have ;) And what level is normal for people
>> to expect (do systems like hadoop do I18N on there error messages, do
>> other apache projects?)
>
> I agree with you.
>
> Documentation and user-facing interfaces should definitely support I18N.
> That means Horizon, and (maybe) the Python client bindings.
> Operators-facing log messages... not so much. By internationalizing them
> we lose the ability to google for them, and I'm not convinced the
> trade-off is favorable for that particular population.

As long as user facing interfaces also means command line interface, I 
think we're on the same page.

	-Sean

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