1215569 - Some BuddyUp strings have poor grammar.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(support.mozilla.org :: BuddyUp, defect)

Description

[Ton [:Tonnes]]

When selecting a locale using the locale list in "Recent revisions" on the KB dashboard, the "Any" item at the top is not localized. Please add that to the db.

Also, a few new string were added recently that may need to be reviewed/changed.

- "Unable to login with provided credentials."
 -> As "login" is a noun, this should probably be "to log in".

- "A user with that email address already exists."
- "A user with that username exists"
-> Not sure if the second needs a trailing period as well, or neither of them do instead.

- "Usernames may only be letters, numbers, "." and "-".
-> I think "contain" would be better than "be", like elsewhere.

If those changes need a separate bug, please let me know.

Comment 1

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

These are all BuddyUp strings.

Comment 2

[Michael Cooper [:mythmon]]

It is best not to conflate issues in Bugzilla. It seems you found the "Any" string through the UI, and that you found the BuddyUp strings by looking at the strings file. In particular, one of the issues here is that one string is not in the localization system at all, and the other issue is that the some strings have grammar problems. Those are very different problems.

If you're confident that the various changes are very very closely related, having one bug is fine, but in this case, this should have been two bugs. Generally, it is probably better to err on the side of filing more bugs. To that goal, I've split the smaller issue of your bug, the "Any" string, into bug 1215660

Comment 3

[Will Kahn-Greene [:willkg] ET needinfo? me]

SUMO has moved to Lithium and this bug is for a SUMO project that isn't around anymore. Given that, I'm closing as WONTFIX.