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[Eric Windisch <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Open source? I haven't seen it so much as with "enterprise apps" from shops like IBM.  They're valuable as long as they're accompanied with readable text, and not just a code.

I'm guessing that you're looking at this from a developer's perspective rather than a support and operations perspective. Developers will understand English, but the operations and especially the support team may not. Having native language log messages has the potential to significantly decrease support costs for users both domestic and abroad (where domestic users might outsource support).

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Eric Windisch


On Monday, February 13, 2012 at 1:50 PM, Joshua Harlow wrote:

> Re: [Openstack] Question on i8ln? Interesting, that is one way of doing it.
> 
> Is this pretty common with other major open-source projects?
> 
> Logging just seems like a different place to me, where english seems like it should be required. I am biased of course ;)
> 
> On 2/13/12 1:39 PM, "Eric Windisch" <eric@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> >  Josh, 
> > 
> > I think the problem is that there are different levels of logging. DEBUG messages can more safely be forced to English than INFO messages, in my opinion.
> > 
> > The compromise solution might be to i18n all logs, but provide error codes which can be looked up and are thus universal and remain useful for debugging purposes.
> >