exception message should use gettextutils

[Yongli He]

What To Translate

At present the convention is to translate all user-facing strings. This means API messages, CLI responses, documentation, help text, etc.

There has been a lack of consensus about the translation of log messages; the current ruling is that while it is not against policy to mark log messages for translation if your project feels strongly about it, translating log messages is not actively encouraged.

Exception text should not be marked for translation, becuase if an exception occurs there is no guarantee that the translation machinery will be functional.

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76797

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76799

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76801

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76802

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76803

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Fix proposed to branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76806

[Jiří Stránský (jistr)]

Is there some OpenStack-wide consensus that exception messages should not be translated? Maybe openstack-dev thread or something?

[Ben Nemec (bnemec)]

There is a mailing list discussion about this, but it didn't get a lot of response. I do think it's something we need to address though.

http://lists.openstack.org/pipermail/openstack-dev/2014-March/028939.html

[Mark McLoughlin (markmc)]

I'm extremely sceptical about translating the error messages from libraries

Also, it's not sufficient to just use gettext() - you need to actually hook up the babel infrastructure to extract messages into .pot files, upload to transifex, sync the .po files back, install the .mo files, etc.

[Romil Gupta (romilg)]

Hi Yongli He,

Shall I take the translation changes for Neutron project ?

[OpenStack Infra (hudson-openstack)]

Change abandoned by Yongli He (<email address hidden>) on branch: master
Review: https://review.openstack.org/76799
Reason: not get agreement. hold it.

[Armando Migliaccio (armando-migliaccio)]

This bug is > 180 days without activity. We are unsetting assignee and milestone and setting status to Incomplete in order to allow its expiry in 60 days.

If the bug is still valid, then update the bug status.

[Akihiro Motoki (amotoki)]

neutron CLI is now deprecated and actually there is no translation now. we have no plan to fix this.

[Thiago da Silva (thiagodasilva)]

swift patch as been abandoned, closing bug for now.

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

[Expired for oslo.messaging because there has been no activity for 60 days.]