Eclipse Babel Project Development Meeting: 12/3/07

Attendees:

  • Daniel
  • Kit Lo
  • Chris Nguyen
  • Denis Roy
  • Gabe
  1. Server-side Translation Project: Kit Lo
    1. Denis and Kit to create a kit for the strings for the translation project
    2. Need some kind of marker to ignore some strings in the property files
      1. Suggesting some commenting to block some lines
    3. Problem is that there isn’t a real standard to this
    4. Kit to come up w/ a certain spec and post to the newsgroup
    5. Need to add this functionality to our Best Practices document
  2. Language Packs: Daniel McGowan
    1. Starting to develop on 3.3
    2. Need to get their hands on language packs to start testing
    3. Do we have any roadmap or any plans to do the testing?
    4. Swiss posts translations – they’re in Bug# 205732
  3. Aptana Code: Denis Roy
    1. Aptana Code doesn’t have anything for HTML or XML code
    2. Works well for property files but everything else is difficult
    3. In the future, we might be able to translate HTML files by putting the entire file in
      1. Store versions of the entire file: text file
    4. Denis will open a bug to support non-property files
      1. Workaround in the meantime is to load the entire file
  4. Staging Area
    1. Still very raw but will give people an idea of what they’re working on
    2. Re-direct was sent out last week (people were having problems logging in)
    3. People should review this
  5. EclipseCon Short Talk
    1. We may have to do a short talk instead
  6. Agenda
    1. Every Friday Chris Nguyen will send out an email to request Agenda topics – please make an effort to respond