Eclipse Babel Project Development Meeting: 06/23/2008

Attendees:

  • Kit
  • Pat
  • Denis
  • Gabe
  • Margaret

Minutes:

  1. Introducing 3 co-ops working with Kit: John Ryding, Matt Mazaika, and Karl Mittmann.
  2. John, Matt, and Karl are currently working on Eclipse related projects in IBM. They will work part time on Babel.
  3. Status of "critical bugs for Ganymede":
    • 235132 - translations in some language packs do not show up because of extra folder name in language packs - dup of 221675
    • 217183 - Generate translated plug-ins for multiple project versions - resolved
    • 222660 - Problem with opening plugin.xml editor - resolved
    • 235022 - Unhandled event loop exception - Dependency Tab - dup of 222660
    • 235553 - Corrupted package path (OpenTypeDialog) - resolved
    • 235607 - Missing contribution in update-site for EMF Compare - assigning to Kit
    • 237275 - Update map files for Eclipse 3.4 - assigning to Denis
    • 238587 - generate proper host-fragment tolerance range for language fragments
  4. Everyone, please let Kit know if you have any bugs you think we should add to the list. Thanks!
  5. Jeff will pass the list to Kit and Gabe to process and mark the strings non-translatable in the DB.
  6. Kit: The "All Versions" and "Only Version 3.3" buttons on the translation page seem to be redundant. I'm yet to see a scenario that requires different translations for different releases.
  7. Kit will open a bug to remove the "Only Version 3.3" button. We will see if there are any concerns from other users.
  8. JWG's large Japanese translation contribution (bug 237745) is waiting on CQ 2441.
  9. JWG will start translation of Eclipse docs in July.
  10. Babel Translation Server currently does not support translation of HTML/XML markup files.
  11. It should not be too hard to provide a simple plain text editor for use to translate the HTML/XML markup files. We should start looking after the holiday season.
  12. A better solution is to provide a HTML/XML markup editor that can protect un-translatable fields in the HTML/XML markup files and only allow translation of translatable strings.
  13. The HTML/XML markup editor requires more resources to develop. We really need the community's help to implement this.
  14. Werner asked if anyone is attending EclipseWorld in the fall.
  15. Pat will be going to EclipseWorld. He will mention and promote Babel. However, it's nice to have a separate session for Babel. Anyone else attending could help?
  16. Everyone worked very hard on Eclipse Ganymede release. Ganymede has just been announced. Congratulations!
  17. It's now vacation time for developers and holiday season for Canada and the U.S. We plan to cancel the next 2 project development meetings on June 30th and July 7th.
  18. If there are any urgent issues, we can communicate through e-mails and the mailing list.