Eclipse Babel Project Meeting: 4/14/08
Attendees:
- Chris Nguyen
- Kit Lo
- Pat Huff
- Pascal Essiembre
- Margaret Wong
- Gabe O’Brien
- Denis Roy
- Nigel Westbury
- Jeff
- ACTION ITEMS: include or recruit people to implement
- Chris and Kit to talk offline to recruit people from Google Summer of Code – Google pays students/people. We need to submit a very articulate document to request a project
- Denis and Gabe volunteer to be mentors
- Incentives for people to join
- Most contributions page
- Denis is working on a page that pulls down the top 10 translators
- Put something on the project page that we’re looking for code contributions (not only language contributions)
- ACTION ITEM: Gabe to do this
- Eclipse Platform Page
- We should work with the platform team to have a link to Babel there – these are high traffic pages and if people are looking, these pages will get hit first
- URL: download.eclipse.org/eclipse
- Link for 3.2.1 page but no link for Babel
- ACTION ITEM: Kit to open a bug against Platform Team for this
- Still working on the wording on this
- we don’t want to give people false expectations when downloading incomplete NL packs – they are still in progress and not complete
- Start adding “Help Wanted” for bugs when we create a bug that needs help
- Update site for the Messages editor – may grab interest for developers
- We have an update site for language packs – rebuilt every week
- Babel page in the download section
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- Additional Topics:
- Web API
- Some people need read access to the data
- Would we be using web services?
- Services to access the language database to get problematic access to DB
- ACTION ITEM: Pascal to update the bug about this – we need an API into the DB to write to this if you have a bugzilla account: Bug #223036
- Bugzilla
- Put some inboxes into your watch list for Babel related messages
- Within Bugzilla, go to “Preferences” link (bottom of the page) that will lead you to “email preferences”
- Within there you can go to the “watch list”
- Google summer of code – Kit submitted the Google Summer of Code
- Kit to send out the summer to put on the agenda
- Link to Google Summer of Code: