Eclipse Babel Project Development Meeting: 01/28/08

Attendees:

  • Chris Nguyen
  • Kit Lo
  • Pat Huff
  • Antoine Toulme
  • Gabe
  • Denis Roy
  • Pascal
  • Nigel Westbury
  • Werner Keil
  1. Server-side Translation Project Update – Denis
    1. Import on the UI is almost done
      1. Almost ready for the General Public
      2. Release “0” will be for the public
        1. We want something up so we can get people to start translating
  2. EclipseCon
    1. Just submitted a BOF session – hopefully will be accepted soon
      1. Introduce to the Community
      2. Collect some new ideas/enhancements for the project
    2. Need to plan a working session for our committers
      1. Kit will get some dates together
      2. Possible Attendees:
        1. Kit Lo
        2. Jess Garms
        3. Chris Nguyen
        4. Denis
        5. Gabe
        6. Antoine
        7. Hugh
        8. Pat Huff
        9. Pascal (tentative)
        10. Chris to send out email to Babel to find a convenient time
    3. 2 Short talks accepted (10 minutes each)
      1. Introduction to the Eclipse Babel Project
        1. Kit is going to cover this
        2. Might be right time to introduce the message editor
          1. Kit will reach out to Nigel for more information
      2. The Eclipse Babel Project Translation Server
        1. Will there be a demo involved?
        2. Please send Kit some slides
        3. Requested that short talks be scheduled back to back
          1. First session, talk
          2. Session, demo
  3. Copyright information – Kit Lo
    1. No new information
    2. We may want to include some type of comment to show an audit trail
      1. Bjorn is working on the message file
      2. We currently do record who contributes the strings and do have some sort of tracking
        1. The version that will not be released this week will not have the tracking.  However, moving forward, we will include this
  4. IBM Donation Status (Japanese and Chinese)
    1. Once the translation server is at the point where we can put down some strings to see how it works
  5. Additional Topics
    1. Face to face opportunity for the Mylyn project