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New Feature
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Resolution: Not A Defect
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Major
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None
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German Win XP, no special email-plugin, SVN plugin, Ant-based jobs, Jenkins as a webapp under Tomcat.
This is a project that has developers from different continents. We need English in messages and mails.
Web GUI:
manage Jenkins,
configure system,
(email sending is duly configured),
press "Test configuration by sending e-mail to System Admin Address"
Result: A test mail is received that is English. Excellent!
Now we configure a job with "Send separate e-mails to individuals who broke the build".
The build breaks.
Result expected: A mail gets sent to the people who potentially broke the build in English.
Result seen: A mail gets sent to the people who potentially broke the build in German.
This ticket can be closed if I can control the language in which both these mails are sent.
This is some kind of a sybling ticket to https://issues.jenkins-ci.org/browse/JENKINS-9666 ,
"Test mail should be sent in same language as real mails.".
[JENKINS-9668] Language control for "build broke" mails.
Not a defect: You're starting the Jenkins service with German locale, which is the default locale used inside Jenkins (e.g. parts of build logs as well).
Workaround:
Background:
We run Jenkins as a webapp under Tomcat 7.0.12, which again is run as a service under Windows.
We can have the "tail wag the dog", that is, configure the entire application server (Tomcat)
to how a single web application (Jenkins) needs it.
Plan: Configure the entire Tomcat so it's default locale is en_US.
Howto, in my case:
I start ...\apache-tomcat-7.0.12\bin\tomcat7w.exe
I navigate to the "Java" tab
I add two lines to the Java Options, namely
-Duser.language=en
-Duser.region=US
I hit "Apply"
I restart the service "Apache Tomcat 7".