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[Hua ZZ Zhang <zhuadl@xxxxxxxxxx>]

My cents:

Apache HTTP is not so equivelant to OpenStack here. Generally it doesn't
care about the application errors or exceptions thrown by web applications.
In openstack, exceptions have been defined in nova, horizon, keystone etc.
The messages of these exceptions are important for different users to
understand what has happened. These messages always need to be localized,
returned and displayed on user interface, not just be logged in backend
system. It is very common practice for a global software project.

Sean Dague wrote:
> If we want to think about OpenStack as a basic building block like
> Apache, i18n is critical. Otherwise there are regions that won't adopt
> it solely because of a lack of i18n.

Note that Apache HTTPd, for instance, does not seem to internationalize
its error messages. Only the (enduser-facing) HTML pages it gives back
in response to invalid requests are.



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Sean Dague wrote:
> If we want to think about OpenStack as a basic building block like
> Apache, i18n is critical. Otherwise there are regions that won't adopt
> it solely because of a lack of i18n.

Note that Apache HTTPd, for instance, does not seem to internationalize
its error messages. Only the (enduser-facing) HTML pages it gives back
in response to invalid requests are.

> Is there a metric on the completeness so far? Something automated that
> could be a jenkins coverage kind of test?

Oddly enough, it's not a question of completeness of translations.
Piggybacking on the awesome Launchpad Translations community always gave
us great coverage. It's more a code support and CI integration issue.

--
Thierry Carrez (ttx)
Release Manager, OpenStack

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