Eclipse Babel Project Development Meeting: 11/10/2008

Attendees:

• Kit
• Denis
• Gabe
• Margaret
• Janice
• Antoine

Minutes:

1. Updates from last meeting
2. New language pack download site status - need to add a banner and prepare for mirroring, Denis will take the item
3. A few fixes are ready to be deployed to the live server. We will tag the code when Antoine is ready.
4. Japanese translations status - we are still waiting on an action from the JWG, Kit will send a follow-up e-mail
5. Kit is working on the approval to travel to EclipseCon next year. In the mean time, Kit will submit a talk for Babel to review the project and show people how to use the pseudo translation language for globalization test (like test for label truncations and unexternalized strings).
6. Denis is willing to present the talk if Kit is not available. Kit will add Denis as a second presenter.
7. Margaret: Adobe will have some Eclipse 3.4 translations to contribute soon. Is the large translation contribution process still the same?
8. Kit: Yes, just package them in the locale folder structure, we can import them easily.
9. Margaret: any size limit?
10. Denis: the contribution has to go through IP. There is a 10 MB limit for Bugzilla bug attachment.
11. Antoine: is the translation sync up script done?
12. Denis: yes, it updated about 400K strings.
13. Denis will post some stats when he has that available.