necessary to translate debug output ?

[bernhard]

is it realy necessary to translate every single debug message?

for example:
logging.debug(_("Feeding in cookie '%s'") % self.session)

is this text worth translating it into a lot of languages?
i also think the user would get a harder time to google for localized debug error messages.

[bernhard (bernhardredl)]

sry duplicate of
https://bugs.launchpad.net/groundcontrol/+bug/514010

[Martin Owens (doctormo)]

No, this is a good place to discuss the problem. I'm not so sure myself about translating debug message. I'd like to hear from more advanced developers about how they solve this issue.

[Markus Korn (thekorn)]

I don't think translating debug logging messages in general is a good idea.
These debug messages are often use to help the developer (fx in bugreports) to understand what is going wrong, and if these messages are translatet to a language he/she does not understand it will make things much harder.

[Martin Owens (doctormo)]

How does this idea around:

Translate error messages.

Don't translate debugs and warnings.

This way we get to tell the user about errors, but devs get logs that make sense.

Errors will normally be obvious anyway, since there is a traceback.