Eclipse Babel Project Development Meeting: 10/20/2008
Attendees:
Kit
Karl
Gregg
Denis
Gabe
Margaret
Antoine
Minutes:
New update site status - built on 10/29, available now
New language pack download site status - will include in next weekly build
We are getting little involvement from projects to maintain their map files in Babel. Anything we should do?
We've suggested to the Eclipse Planning Council to make that a requirement for the Galileo.
We may setup "Map Files Champions" asking volunteers to keep the map files for Eclipse projects up-to-date.
Eclipse DemoCamps
Kit will demo Babel on 11/12 in RTP.
Demos are not very formal. You don't have to be experts in all areas.
Please consider setting one up to demo Babel if you have a few hours.
See this link for more info: http://wiki.eclipse.org/Eclipse_DemoCamps_November_2008
WTP 2.0 map files problem
Kit opened CVS Viewer bug 250671, but it has been closed as NON-ECLIPSE.
Denis will investigate and help.
Eclipse Planning Council meeting
Kit has proposed the following 3 Babel topics for discussion in the up coming Eclipse Planning Council meeting. The chair of the Planning Council Rich Gronback has already added Babel participation as a Must-Do requirement for the Galileo release, and indicated an M6 completion date.
each Eclipse project should add the Babel Pseudo Translation Test to their release plan to make sure their project is properly globalized, with all strings externalized, and all layout problems fixed
each Eclipse project should define their project map files at the Babel Translation Server so translators around the world could help translating the Eclipse project
each Eclipse project should freeze their translatable strings at M6 to give translators enough time for translation before project release date
[bug 248981] unsatisfied dependency messages when uninstalling Babel language packs
Map files are including test and doc plugins, but the test plugins are not built into the downloadable zips
Project builds probably have some scripts to remove them
Babel language packs are built based on the map files; we are building language fragments for the test plugins too, but the host plugins are not found
Denis to talk to Eclipse build person (Kim) to understand their build process
Release plan
We received some notifications from EMO requesting use to keep our release plan up-to-date
Kit will start drafting the release plan
Translation sync up script - still running, greatly improves translations in repository, 1.7 million strings in repository so far