wordpress-mobile / wordpress-mobile/WordPress-Android
Media - Better error messaging on failed uploads
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- Dominant language
- Kotlin
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Description
We should provide user friendly, non-technical, error messages in case of uploading errors.
Also translate the most common error messages.
Details on the iOS side here: https://github.com/wordpress-mobile/WordPress-iOS/issues/6562
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reviewing the upload-error scope in this issue and the linked WordPress-iOS issue #6562, then locate the Android upload error handling and translation resources. Done means common upload failures show user-friendly, non-technical messages and the most common messages are translated.
Written by the indexing model from the issue text.
Assessment
- Tech stack
- android, kotlin
- Domain
- localization, mobile
- Issue type
- Feature
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Mostly clear
- Newbie friendliness
- 30/100