Feature #36938
Update translations of field_principal to User or Group
| Status: | Closed | Start date: | ||
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| Priority: | Normal | Due date: | ||
| Assignee: |  Go MAEDA | % Done: | 0% | |
| Category: | Translations | |||
| Target version: | 5.1.0 | |||
| Resolution: | Fixed |
Description
The term "principal" is only used in very few places within the user interface and is not really defined elsewhere. In the translations, the term is only used in the field_principal key.
About the only place where I came across this was as a validation error when trying to add a new project member and not selecting a user or group. Here, the error message is:
Principal can't be blank
As the term "Principal" is very obscure here, I propose we generally replace it with "User or Group".
In the German translations, things are worse because the term is currently translated there as "Auftraggeber" which actually means "client" in a strict business sense. Here, "Benutzer oder Gruppe" would be more appropriate as a direct translation of "User or Group".
36938.patch 
(24.9 KB)
36938_de.patch
(25 KB)
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Update translations of field_principal to User or Group (#36938).
Contributed by Holger Just.
History
#1
Updated by Go MAEDA about 1 month ago
Holger Just wrote:
As the term "Principal" is very obscure here, I propose we generally replace it with "User or Group".
+1
The phrase "user or group" is already used in the label label_principal_search ("Search for user or group:"). Changing the translation for label_principal from "Principal" to "User or group" improves consistency and clarity.
#2
Updated by Bernhard Rohloff about 1 month ago
+1 I'm also in favor for this proposal. It sounds way better.
#3
Updated by Go MAEDA 24 days ago
- File 36938.patch added
Here is a patch that updates the translations.
#5
Updated by Holger Just 13 days ago
- File 36938_de.patch added
- Assignee set to Go MAEDA
Thank you Maeda-san.
With the attached patch (which is just an in-place edit of yours from #36938#note-3), I updated the German translation to "Benutzer oder Gruppe" as initially proposed. There are no other changes.