1402768 - en-US parsing errors should have more information

Status: NEW

(Localization Infrastructure and Tools :: compare-locales, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Right now only a warning is display: 

WARNING: Parser error in en-US

It's not helpful. It should display more information, e.g. position and value

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Is that information helpful to localizers?

My original intent was to be as opaque about this as I can, to not make people think they need to do something about it.

Comment 2

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #1)
> My original intent was to be as opaque about this as I can, to not make
> people think they need to do something about it.

At this point this kind of error would show up either locally or against quarantine, so I think we should expose as much information. No point in showing the error, and then forcing you to figure out where and what it is.

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I'm still strongly optimistic that pontoon will show warnings and errors in the UI, so I disagree on the part where this shows up.

I'd argue that ensuring that en-US mozilla-central works should be a part of or follow-up to bug 1353680.

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #3)
> I'm still strongly optimistic that pontoon will show warnings and errors in
> the UI, so I disagree on the part where this shows up.

This bug is about en-US though, I wouldn't expect these errors to show up in Pontoon.

> I'd argue that ensuring that en-US mozilla-central works should be a part of
> or follow-up to bug 1353680.

Probably yes.