Babel / Development Status Meetings / 2009-03-30

Attendees

Kit
Denis
Gabe
Antoine
Nigel
Jeff
Margaret

Topics

• EclipseCon
  • It was a very successful conference
  • We got a chance to meet face-to-face
  • We had a Babel Committers Working Session on Monday, March 23
  • Mori-san presented the JWG's idea of Eclipse documenetation translation plan in the Babel environment
  • JWG is designing a set of translation workflow assistant tools and translation assistant tools
  • JWG would also like to introduce a set of roles (translation coordinator, committer, reviewer, and translator) to control the quality of the translations (see more details in the long talk presenation link below)
  • Denis liked the design, but recommeded adding a web interface so that translators can translate the doc files without having to install the plug-in
  • We had the idea captured on paper, including Denis's upside down hand writings and complete with his beer bottle seal of approval :-)
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  • Kit presented the Babel long talk "Climb the Babel Tower" on Wednesday, March 25
  • Kit's long talk was an introduction of the Babel runtime tools, Babel translation server environment, and the actual Babel translation server at babel.eclipse.org
  • A short demo of the Babel translation server and the pseudo translation language packs was included in the long talk
  • The long talk presentation (minus the demo) is available here

• bug 266250 Map file processor not running properly on live server
  • Problem resolved, Equinox and TPTP strings are now extracted and made available for translation
  • Plan to pull in old translations - Re-import? Re-sync?
  • [in progress] Denis will re-import the 3.2 translations
• bug 261584 Wrong folder structure in langpack generation for datatools
  • Patch tested positive, solved the building problems for Datatools, CDT, and Equinox
  • Deploy to live server?
  • [done] Kit will tag the recent fixes and we will deploy the fixes to the live server soon
• bug 268632 Update site not working
  • Denis or Antoine, please check the live server
  • [in progress] Antoine will add the site.xml back
• bug 260013 BIRT 2.3.1 Translation for 6 languages in group 1
  • Status - Imported to live server?
  • [done] Antoine will finish this
• bug 260086 DTP 1.6.2 Translation for 6 languages in group 1
  • Status - Imported to live server?
  • [done] Antoine will finish this
• bug 258783 Add translation fragments for Subversive project
  • Status - Imported to live server?
  • Antoine
    • No, I don't remember adding them, and it also looks like they are missing from the system: there are no files defined for them anymore
    • I think we have issues with the recent changes on map files. I had to change the BPMN modeler map files myself
  • [in progress] Antoine will finish this
• Babel update site and download page problems
  • Most problem fixed
  • Still have some issues with missing site.xml for Europa?
  • Status?
  • related to bug 268632 mentioned above
• bug 262682 Galileo release train not an option
  • Done!
  • Once we have that defined, we should start to produce the zip for Eclipse Platform English .properties files and make it available from the download page
  • [done] Jeff will open a bug and Denis will work on this
  • Status?
• Antoine presented a Webinar for Globalizing Eclipse with Babel on March 11
  • Thanks!
• Babel Build Machine
  • We need to start the building of Babel Runtime Tools
  • Should we setup the build at Eclipse Foundation?
  • Are there templates to follow?
  • [in progress] Kit will work on this
• EclipseCon
  • The Babel long talk "Climb the Babel Tower" will be on Wednesday, March 25 at 11:10 AM in room 206
  • I plan to have a Babel Committers Working Session on Monday, March 23 at 5:00 PM, 1 hour at the Hyatt Regency Santa Clara Lobby Lounge