[WG: I18N & L10N] How do we set priority for i18n issues

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

I was only asking about i18n, not L10n.

J-F

On 26/06/2013 13:23, Steve Swinsburg wrote:
> I'd be hesitant about changing the priorities in Jira and think that it
> should be decided as to what status an i18n bug has. For example is the
> a missing or broken translation a blocker to a release? Or just a major
> bug? As a global community I think that we need to continue to take i18n
> seriously and ensure that we have full support across as many languages
> as possible. Blocker may be a bit far but I would definitely support
> critical, so that bugs are elevated about the rest (as the default is
> major). Not all developers work on translations, for example, so they
> shouldn't get in the way of actual code bug fixes.
>
> regards,
> Steve
>
>
> On Wed, Jun 26, 2013 at 7:58 PM, Jean-Francois Leveque
> <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr <mailto:jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr>>
> wrote:
>
>     Hi fellow translators and others not using the default language,
>
>     I'm requesting your opinion on the severity of i18n issues by category.
>
>
>     JIRA has the following priorities:
>
>     Blocker
>           Blocks development and/or testing work, production could not run.
>     Critical
>           Crashes, loss of data, severe memory leak.
>     Major
>           Major loss of function.
>     Minor
>           Minor loss of function, or other problem where easy workaround is
>     present.
>     Trivial
>           Cosmetic problem like misspelt words or misaligned text.
>
>
>     How do you think this applies to the following categories?
>
>     Images that cannot be translated (e.g. SAM-2130)
>
>     Values that cannot be translated (e.g. SAK-23083)
>
>     Duplicate default values (e.g. SAK-15375)
>
>     Encoding (e.g. SAK-12895)
>
>     Split Strings (e.g. SAM-1019, SAK-22016)
>
>     Debug locale not working (e.g. PRFL-806)
>
>     Already translated values that are not reused (e.g. "Files in your Drop
>     Box can only be seen by you and the site maintainers. Other participants
>     cannot access them.", "Drop Box" has already been translated)
>
>     Mixing configuration and internationalization (e.g. SAK-23289)
>
>     Display of dates (e.g. SAK-23494)
>
>     Display of time (e.g. SAK-21079, screenshot-1.jpg)
>
>     Ordering issues (e.g. SAK-12556)
>
>
>     If you know i18n issues that do not fit these categories, please propose
>     new categories and give an example.
>
>
>     Cheers,
>
>     Jean-François