[Qgis-developer] Requiring English for plugins?

[Tim Sutton]

Hi

On Sun, Apr 8, 2012 at 6:15 PM, Marco Bernasocchi
<marco at bernawebdesign.ch> wrote:
> Marco Bernasocchi (mobile)
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> On Apr 6, 2012 6:54 PM, "Gary Sherman" <gsherman at geoapt.com> wrote:
>>
>> Currently there is a plugin sitting in the approval queue that is written
>> entirely in French. I have not approved it because I don't know what it does
>> and find it difficult to review the code (yes, I know about Google
>> translate).
>>
>> Should we require English as the base language for plugins and follow that
>> with i18ln support for translators?
> +1, just a question, is the plugin builder generated code i18n ready? I
> think that would be super nice
>
Not yet but i have plans to patch it to be.

Regards

Tim


>>
>> Otherwise, someone who speaks French will have to review the plugin and
>> approve it.
>>
>> The approval process should require code review to make sure it doesn't
>> have external requirements that are not documented and doesn't make suspect
>> system calls.
>>
>>
>> -gary
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