137960 - [RFE] Configurable language policy

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Bugzilla :: Creating/Changing Bugs, enhancement)

Description

[xyzzy]

Most Bugzilla installations will have some set of languages that they will
accept bug reports in.  This can be codified on a per installation basis to make
some tasks easier.

In particular, it can flag bugs as having a particular language, so non-speakers
can avoid those bugs and polyglots can do translations.  This might allow the
ability to reject posts that aren't in an accepted language, although b.m.o
would probably turn this off.  This could also help distinguish query results in
different languages.

Even if a language was not defined as a locally valid, it might be good to have
a separate set of languages that are accepted from remote installations.  Such
bugs might go into a "Translation Box" for translation when they are moved.  If
the language is not supported on the remote server, it could go into an outbox
for translation to a supported language, and conversely, some languages might be
accepted into an inbox, but require translation into the native language by the
remote server.  Both could be active simultaneously.  Presumably, the process
should avoid translations like:

Japanese -> outbox -> translation -> Spanish -> move -> inbox -> translation ->
English

if there exists either of these paths (avoid extra languages):

Japanese -> outbox -> translation -> English -> move -> English
Japanese -> move -> Japanese -> inbox -> translation -> English

Comment 1

[Frédéric Buclin]

We are not going to keep translated comments in sync with each other, nor are we going to scan comments to detect which language they use and reject those we detected as being written in the incorrect language.