[babel-dev] Re: Eclipse and Flex Builder langpacks

[Kit Lo <kitlo@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Dear Mr. Nilsen,

I'm very excited to hear about the possibility
of Adobe Systems Inc's contribution to help localize Eclipse!

As you know, we started the project
just a few months ago. We have the Babel Translation Server up and running
at: http://babel.eclipse.org/babel/. However, please keep in mind that
globalization is more than just translating strings. The goal of the Babel
project is to provide a set of tools to make the job of globalizing Eclipse
projects easier. We really need everyone in the community to help, both
in translations and implementing globalization tools.

Mori-san of NEC Soft is the main contact
of the "Eclipse Japan Working Group". They are also very interested
in the Japanese translations. I think we should all get together to discuss
the contribution effort, and how to divide up the works, if we can find
a good time to fit my U.S. Eastern time zone, Chris Nguyen (Babel project
co-lead from BEA)'s U.S. Pacific time zone, Mori-san's Japan time zone,
and whatever time zone you are in :-). I highly recommend you to attend
EclipseCon 2008 in March, where we and all the Babel project committers
can meet face to face, and discuss the future strategies of the project.

You were looking for access to the latest
set of files. In Denis' post on Feb 13, http://dev.eclipse.org/mhonarc/lists/babel-dev/msg00239.html,
he incorporated a database dump (mysqldump)
as part of the nightly build. The file contains the (English) files table,
all the English strings, project information, and all the translations.
Hopeful, that's what you were looking for.

Regards,
Kit Lo
IBM Eclipse SDK Globalization Technical Lead
Eclipse Babel Project Co-lead