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Babel / Development Status Meetings / 2010-03-29
Attendees
Kit | |
Denis | |
Gabe | |
Antoine | |
Nigel | |
Jeff | |
Margaret |
Topics
- Doc translation proposal - progress
- Was able to extact doc (HTM* & XML) files from Sequoyah & Eclipse projects
- Each project can specify its own plugin exclude patterns (used for both properties & doc files extraction)
- May need a few twists to exclude some configuration XML files
- How should we save the doc files? Thoughts from Denis:
- Since there is no turnkey solution for doing this, here are a couple of solutions I can think of for Babel.
- 1. We use an external VCS as Antoine suggested. I think this is an entirely valid approach, although perhaps a bit more complex.
- 2. We do like MediaWiki -- save the entire file on each save. If it works for them, it will work for us. Except:
- when a user wants to diff two versions, we could use one of the diff libraries Gabe pointed out. No need to go to shell or write our own.
- older revisions could pass through the gzip lib and be stored in compressed format. If a user wants to diff to an older version, we unzip it first, then pass it through the diff engine.
- one design consideration here would be to use many tables -- perhaps one translation table per language. Or, one table to contain the 'latest' of everything and one table per language for the gzipped older versions.