Eclipse Babel Project Meeting at EclipseCon: 3/17/08
Attendees:

• Chris Nguyen
• Kit Lo
• Gabe O’Brien
• Nigel Westbury
• Kit Lo
• Pat Huff
• Denis Roy
• NEC Constituents

• Large donations to Babel – How should we handle those?
• Options:
• Update Solution - Package up the English property files along w/ the Japanese and make it available as a zip file
• Issues:
• Having to continually upload the zip file
• NEC Contribution
• Have to be attached to a bug
• 3.4 get the MySQL dump and submit it via Bugzilla
• Providing Web API’s – grab and save
• Legalities
• Should include a translation form with each contribution
• Quality of Translated Code
• Goal: We have to have committers eventually verify the translations
• Perhaps have a status level for committers to verify code (i.e. eBay)
• Voting?
• Change sets – showing people what has changed, verify
• How do we mark incorrect Translations?
• Suggestion – Pseudo Translation: Special tagging unique strings that are incorrect using index numbers
• Translating the same strings for each language at one time
• This will save time by doing it all at one time
• I.e. Eclipse.org can be done automatically and only once
• Promote the project individually
• Each person can help
• Ask for more committers and translators
• PHP Code Contribution
• We need more people to help out the code – need to Advertise this
• Export
• Provide English SIP first
• Providing better merge: tool - Beyond Compare (Shareware tool)