[Evergreen-general] Item status translations in Evergreen

[Linda Jansová]

Dear all,

It seems that currently default item statuses can only be translated 
within Evergreen, e.g., on Blake’s bugsquash2 server via this interface:

https://bugsquash2.mobiusconsortium.org/eg2/en-US/staff/admin/server/config/copy_status

We are just wondering – as these strings are the same in every Evergreen 
installation, wouldn’t it make sense to have them translated on 
Launchpad or in POEditor?

But maybe there are practical reasons why the current approach makes 
more sense (perhaps like the fact that the original strings can be 
overwritten in the interface so that once they change, the translations 
would no longer be correct)?

In previous versions only the custom item statuses had to be translated 
one by one in the installation.

The default ones are still included in the db.seed file on Launchpad, 
e.g. this translation for Discard/Weed item status:

https://translations.launchpad.net/evergreen/main/+pots/db.seed/cs/+translate?batch=10&show=all&search=Discard%2FWeed

Thank you for sharing your thoughts!

And – last but not least – a big thank you goes out to Blake for setting 
up the bugsquash2 test server with Czech!

Linda