Comment 9 for bug 397715

+1 the transaltions happening in trunk are annoying as hell

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 9:57 AM, Markus Korn <email address hidden> wrote:

> I discussed this issue with Siegfried yesterday, and I would like to bring
> the overall translation workflow to everybody's attention again:
> * We want to make our ontology 'symbols' translatable
> * logging output should not be translated
> * we might need translation support for tools in tools/
> * we should not use lp:zeitgeist as the target branch for launchpad's
> translation service, we should use another branch, and merge translations as
> part of the release process.
>
> Any further thoughts?
>
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> I18N of zeitgeist
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/397715
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> Status in Zeitgeist Framework: Confirmed
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> Bug description:
> zeitgeist is using gettext for I18N in various places, but its usage is
> inconsistent. A quick grep with `grep -R -E "[^\_]\_{1}\(" .` shows we are
> using gettext for:
> - some logging messages
> - the name and description of the FF DataProvider
> - display name of Content and Source objects in our datamodel (real
> gettext support is not implemented yet)
>
> Thinking about this three items a bit I think none of them make sense at
> all. Logging is for debugging purposes, in the future we will ask our user
> to add a log file to a bugreport. If the logging messages are translated to
> a random language we will hardly understand the content. Translating the
> display name of Content and Source object also makes no sense, instead of
> this it should be done by the client. This way one database can be accessed
> with different language settings. And if we agree on the last two arguments,
> it also makes less sense for the last item.
>
> But just in case I'm missing the point here, and we decide to have I18N
> support in zeitgeist we should decide which parts we would exactly like to
> translate, and dig trough the code to add language support to related
> elements consistently.
>
> Markus
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