On Fri, Apr 29, 2005 at 09:06:42PM +0200, Jutta Wrage wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > > Would be better, to think about how to solve that problem: > > - - translation of www.debian.org to more languages (including the pages > about bug reporting) > - - translate everything related to bug reports > - - help the users to find mailing lists in there language > - - having a translation service for developers who want to send > questions to the bug reporter > - - having a translation service for people, who want to report a bug and > are not able to write it in english or discover, if the bug is already > submitted.
Yes, people need to be able to do bug reporting in other languages than English. Meny do so now on mailing lists that are not in English, but in other languages. This issue has been discussed before, and here are some ideas from such discussion: 1. an API that takes the non-english error message and displays it in English. many - or say - most programs are not run in English, but in another language, in the first place. So it is difficult to write a bug report in English, when even the error message in englishi is not known . Some way to get or keep the english message need to be available. Maybe save it in an environment variable? Called ERRORTEXT or such? And then make it available in any form to fill out a bug report. 2. Bug reports on the translation should go to the translator, not the maintainer of the program. 3. If the maintainer gets a bug report in a langueage that is not understood by the maintainer, there should be established ways of contacting a translator for the language in question to get the bug report translated. To facilitate this, a form for reporting bugs should indicate the language used for reporting . Best regards Keld -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
