Hi,
in many companies from non English speaking countries there is a language policy that suggests using English in all documentations and shared documentation. This is especially true for companies that operate across borders or employ people from other countries.

I like the fact that Jenkins adjusts itself to the browser language, BUT for communication and a common language and glossary is a must-have. In my case it's hard to write tutorials for co-workers and they have a hard time reading those. Many Plugins are not localized and for job and build descriptions there is no option to write multiple entries for different locales. That said if you view our Jenkins installation using a German browser you see a mix of English and German. As far as I've looked it's not possible to change that language except for changing one's browser language (which average users cannot be expected to do).

I did try out the Locale Plugin, but it's very unreliable. After every Jenknis restart you need to go to settings and save without changing anything for it to apply the language. Sometimes (actually recently) it doesn't work at all.

I wish there was a built-in setting in Jenkins for setting the used language explicitly. That setting can be "client language" as default, which would keep backward compatibility. But any other setting should force the global setting.

Thanks
Regards
Hubert Grzeskowiak