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[Deryck Hodge <deryck.hodge@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Sep 28, 2010 at 10:32 PM, Robert Collins
<robertc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Personally I'd welcome translation of Launchpad's UI itself and I
> think answers is a great place to start. I think that we could, for
> instance, ask for 'please write the bug report in english' on bug
> pages and so forth, to mitigate the 'we may get lots of non english
> reports'. Translating user content, like project descriptions would be
> awesome too.
>

Hi, Rob.

I think we need to think through the potential bug problem a bit more.
 People don't read warnings on websites. :-)

I have heard the concern expressed 3 or 4 times in the last year that
the problem of a large numbers of bugs would get worse if a non-small
amount of those bugs were suddenly entered in languages other than
English.  I'm not against translating Launchpad, but I think we have
to have a better answer than "add a warning to the page."  I'm not
sure what that answer is, though.

I don't see this preventing starting work on this with the answers
app, but I do think we need to be thinking more about this before
moving on to the bugs app.

Cheers,
deryck


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