On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 11:28:04AM +0000, Colin Watson wrote: > > How the hell will you do this as there is no "i18n" tag in the BTS > > (wild wide ranting)? > > OK, enough already please. > > If the i18n tag were added to the BTS, would there immediately be > requests for i18n-fr, i18n-de, etc. (or l10n-, more sensibly) tags? > > If the answer to this question is "no, never", then it can be added > reasonably easily, but switching to a non-tag-based system would then be (...) Never say never :-) > If the answer to this question is "yes" or "maybe", then a tag is the [very interesting metadata 'Language' possibility explained] Howe about using a 'i18n' and/or 'l10n' tag and then, if it gets widespread use, include the metadata possibility? I'm not sure we can assure that tags will not be (ab)used at the moment since we cannot really tell how many of the current bugs are i18n-related. > In this latter model, you'd also have to think about how to represent > bugs that report some problem in internationalization (i.e. not relating > to any specific language) as opposed to localization. Two different tags could solve this (l10n+metadata or just i18n with no metadata). Also a single tag (i18n) with no metadata could be equivalent to a bug that applies to all languages, or a bug does not apply to any language (because it's it18n and not l10n). You could also use a 'Language: all' (or 'any') metadata similarly to how we do it for arquitectures in packages regardless of wether tags are used or not. If the tag approach is easier to implement I'd say we do it, and when we find that browsing on a per-tag basis is not viable because instead of three teams (pt_BR, ja and fr, IIRC) sending bug reports we have 20 different language teams, BTS maintainers could avoid tag explosion by reusing the current tag and adding appropiate Metadata. Of course, if the metadata 'Language' approach was added fist hand I don't really find any need to add an specific tag. Well, just my 2c, if they are of any use. Regards Javi
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