RE: [babel-dev] translatable string freeze date for all Eclipseprojects

["Nigel Westbury" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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I wholeheartedly agree with Bjorn that community involvement should be a major objective of Babel.  My vision is that text can be translated by end-users at any time from within the runtime RCP application, even if they don't know what a Java resource bundle or a plug-in is.  End-users may have no idea which plug-in contributed a piece of text; they just want to translate or correct the text.

 

This is what we have done in our own application, and I have re-packaged the plug-in so it works with the Eclipse IDE as well as any other RCP application.  It is well past time to get this plug-in contributed to the Babel project.  To get this process moving, I have attached the plug-in, and also some documentation that I have started to put together.  If the concensus is that this is a direction that Babel should take then I will submit the code to IPZilla.

 

I will be on today's call so hopefully we can include this in the agenda.

 

Nigel Westbury

-----Original Message-----
From: babel-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:babel-dev-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Bjorn Freeman-Benson
Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 10:05 AM
To: Babel committers mailing list
Subject: Re: [babel-dev] translatable string freeze date for all Eclipseprojects

My thoughts have been a little different: I see Babel as a way to get the community involved in translations rather than as a way to provide tools for professional translators. Not that the professional translators couldn't use the tools, but rather the focus is on ways to get the community involved. The consequence of "get the community involved" is that it's unlikely that we'll get 100% translation coverage before GA. Thus I was working towards NL packs that users can download at any time. If they download the one on the GA day, they'll get, perhaps 80% of the strings. If they wait until August, they'll get 90%. And maybe in December they'll get 98%. Something like that.

- Bjorn

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