On Thu, Mar 27, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Jeremy Katz katzj@redhat.com wrote:

In doing some testing of various things within anaconda, I've come across a few fringe error cases which we really should be catching and presenting to the user with something other than a traceback. Unfortunately, this involves strings :-/

So, there are a few options

1. Leave as a traceback. You'll have to try pretty hard to convince me

this is the right answer ;-) 2) Add the strings, don't mark them for translation. Similar to 1 for non-English users, but at least not a traceback. 3) Add the strings, mark them, get as much translated as possible.

I'm really up for either 2 or 3 based on what people would prefer. We'll be building anaconda up until pretty late, so this shouldn't be a big problem. But I wanted to give people a chance to yell if they had a large problem

Jeremy

PS We're talking about a relatively small (10 at the way outside... I think I'm at 3 right now) number of strings

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If 3 happens, I'll gladly translate them into spanish, but I can't speak for the translaters of the other hundred languages.

Signed, An overeager translater who happened to arrive to late to help much into translating F9 into Spanish :-)

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Jeremy Katz pisze: | 3) Add the strings, mark them, get as much translated as possible. |

+1. String freeze doesn't mean "no new strings", but "every new or changed string is announced on fedora-trans-list". So, this is fine.

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to, 2008-03-27 kello 15:10 -0400, Jeremy Katz kirjoitti:

So, there are a few options

1. Leave as a traceback. You'll have to try pretty hard to convince me

this is the right answer ;-) 2) Add the strings, don't mark them for translation. Similar to 1 for non-English users, but at least not a traceback. 3) Add the strings, mark them, get as much translated as possible.

I'm really up for either 2 or 3 based on what people would prefer.

Hi,

I may have said this before, but I'll say it again: I think 2) is the worst option of all. It is actually so bad it should not be considered at all, in my opinion. In both 2) and 3) the string freeze is broken, but with 2) the translators do not even get a chance to translate.

With option 2), zero end users will see the message in their own language, but with 3) there is a good chance that >50% of end users see the translated message.

I vote for number 3.

-LN