Re: [incubation] I18n for feature.xml/plugin.xml

[Ed Willink <ed.willink@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi

You are being very diligent in following all the old strong guidance.

Sadly much of it is now stale and/or widely ignored.

I'm not sure that any project is really internationalized these days; 
certainly it is a long time since I got an email from the IBM message 
translators asking what a message meant.

In the particular case of i18n, there appear to be some directory naming 
practices that went obsolete with PDE-build. Every so often some new 
attempt at compatibility by Tycho manages to resurrect old functionality 
and go confusingly wrong as a consequence of a stale refactoring. IMHO 
the less you have to do with i18n the better.

    Regards

        Ed Willink

On 25/11/2020 08:06, Alexander Fedorov wrote:
> Hi Christian,
>
> You have a lot of questions in this message :)
>
> I would say that internationalization (aka i18n) is important quality 
> mark for a source code. However, localization (that brings the real 
> value for a user) is a separate effort, whatever with the help of 
> Babel or without it.
>
> As for i18n for specific attributes like vendor, license, copyrights 
> and so on. I think the i18n should be done to provide a hook for local 
> legal names and formulations.
> For EPL-2.0 license in particular things are a bit easier since we can 
> specify "license-feature" attribute to reuse standard content with two 
> steps:
>
> 1) add to target 
> https://github.com/eclipse-passage/passage/blob/master/releng/org.eclipse.passage.target/org.eclipse.passage.target.target#L18
> 2) declare attribute 
> https://github.com/eclipse-passage/passage/blob/master/features/org.eclipse.passage.ldc.feature/feature.xml#L20 
>
>
>
> Regards,
> AF
>
> 25.11.2020 10:29, Christian Pontesegger пишет:
> > I have in mind that one requirement of project graduation is I18N
> > support. Tried to find that in the handbook, but failed. So first
> > question: is there a list of requirements on the code and its
> > functionalities regarding graduation?
> >
> > 2nd: I see that I18N is used for feature.xml and plugin.xml for fields
> > like:
> > * vendor
> > * license
> > * copyright
> >
> > Do we really need this? Does Babel really translate the license terms
> > or copyright messages? The vendor will quite likely also stay the same.
> >
> > thanks for clarification
> > Christian
> >
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