Guidelines on translated text (Yves Mettier, Simon Bellwood, Andreas Ericsson)

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diff --git a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml b/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
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--- a/doc/developer-guidelines.sgml
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@@ -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>