Hello, Thanks all for your answers. As there is a consensus on first step, I committed it within: https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=61970
Regards On Fri, Jan 5, 2018 at 7:11 PM, Maxime Chassagneux < maxime.chassagn...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm agree for default language to English but not to remove all i18n > system. > > -- > Max > > > 2018-01-05 16:22 GMT+01:00 sebb <seb...@gmail.com>: > > > On 5 January 2018 at 13:51, Felix Schumacher > > <felix.schumac...@internetallee.de> wrote: > > > Am 04.01.2018 um 17:31 schrieb Philippe Mouawad: > > >> > > >> Hello, > > >> > > >> Currently we provide ability to translate JMeter GUI in many > languages. > > >> In our tests we only ensure French translations are available because > we > > >> have french team members. > > >> > > >> For other languages, we are in best effort and most probably the UI > > looks > > >> non professional for many users as there will be a mix of english and > > non > > >> english labels. > > >> > > >> I am aware that it's a controversial topic and many people probably > rely > > >> on > > >> translated GUI BUT: > > >> > > >> - I dislike the fact that GUI looks non professional > > >> - Why don't we have more translation contributions if they are > used > > ? > > >> - It's a certain piece of work to maintain and create those > > >> translations > > >> > > >> So unless there is a magical way to fully translate all labels and > > >> maintain > > >> them efficiently, I am in favor of: > > >> > > >> - Having english forced in setup instead of relying on default > > locale. > > >> It seems this happened accidentally in 3.3 and nobody complained > > about > > >> it. > > >> - In a second step, and unless there is a big move to help on > > >> translation, I propose to drop all languages, even french one as > > it's > > >> an > > >> additional work and we have other and a lot of things to do > > >> > > >> > > >> Thoughts :-) ? > > > > > > > > > I am not against the default language 'en', as it is the one used in > the > > > manual and therefore the best match. > > > > Agreed. > > > > > But I am against the removal of the option to switch languages, as > there > > > were contributions in this area, which indicates, that this feature is > > > useful to some. > > > > Agreed. > > > > Also if a local user wants to fix the display for their language, they > > can do so just by updating/providing the appropriate property files. > > This ability would disappear if language support is dropped. > > > > A missing/incorrect translation does not prevent JMeter working, and > > if it bothers a user sufficiently hopefully they will provide a patch. > > > > I agree with Graham that the way forward is to make it really easy to > > provide translation updates. > > > > > Felix > > > > > > > > > -- Cordialement. Philippe Mouawad.
