[Nagiosplug-checkins] nagiosplug/doc developer-guidelines.sgml,1.21,1.22

[Ton Voon]

Update of /cvsroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/doc
In directory sc8-pr-cvs1.sourceforge.net:/tmp/cvs-serv30755

Modified Files:
	developer-guidelines.sgml 
Log Message:
Guidelines on translated text (Yves Mettier, Simon Bellwood, Andreas Ericsson)


Index: developer-guidelines.sgml
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RCS file: /cvsroot/nagiosplug/nagiosplug/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml,v
retrieving revision 1.21
retrieving revision 1.22
diff -u -d -r1.21 -r1.22
--- developer-guidelines.sgml	23 Nov 2004 22:49:51 -0000	1.21
+++ developer-guidelines.sgml	23 Nov 2004 23:35:19 -0000	1.22
@@ -346,6 +346,18 @@
 		<para>It is up to third party programs to convert the Nagios plugins 
 		performance data into graphs.</para>
 		</section>
+
+	<section><title>Translations</title>
+	<para>If possible, use translation tools for all output. Currently, most of the core C plugins 
+	use gettext for translation. General guidelines are:</para>
+
+	<orderedlist>
+	<listitem><para>short help is not translated</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>long help has options in English language, but text translated</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>"Copyright" kept in English</para></listitem>
+	<listitem><para>copyright holder names kept in original text</para></listitem>
+	</orderedlist>
+	</section>
 </section>
 
 <section id="SysCmdAuxFiles"><title>System Commands and Auxiliary Files</title>