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  1. Bug #1215586
  2. Comment #8

Comment 8 for bug 1215586

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Stéphane Graber (stgraber) wrote : Re: [Bug 1215586] Re: The u/i cannot handle the array-of-dictionaries update descriptions

On Wed, May 21, 2014 at 09:34:08AM -0400, Barry Warsaw wrote:
> On May 21, 2014, at 09:22 AM, Iain Lane wrote:
>
> >what are we supposed to do with those descriptions? Perhaps this means that
> >the server isn't providing what we want yet?
>
> At one time, the server was going to give i18n'd human readable descriptions.
> I don't know whether the current behavior is because the ui couldn't do
> anything with them, or whether the information is not available when the
> server crafts the index.json files. If the i18n descriptions won't be
> available on the server, then it seems pointless to want to expose i18n
> descriptions in the API and ui. If that's the case, let's close this bug as
> won't fix. Stephane?

So far we've never bothered write those descriptions (I just put the
channel info in the description at the moment) or get any of that
translated, but I'd expect that when we hit RTM we'll be asked to do it.

Pushing updates to end users without a localized description is IMO
unacceptable, so this feature is still going to be required down the
line.

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Stéphane Graber
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