I18n BOF

Raúl E. Mengod LópezUniversidad Politécnica de Valencia

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OverView

• I18n Review

• Introduction of the participants• State of the Art• Actual i18n Working procedure• New Procedure Proposal• Discussion

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INTRODUCTION OF THE PARTICIPANTS

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I18N REVIEW: STATE OF ART

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State of the Art

Info at the Confluence Page: http://bugs.sakaiproject.org/confluence/display/I18N/Home

Internationalization Status At the time of this writing, the following languages/locales are supported: English (US & UK), Japanese, Korean, Dutch, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, French (France & Canada), Catalan, Swedish, Arabic, Russian, Portuguese (Portugal & Brazil).

Additionally, there are several aspects of internationalizing Sakai:1) Ability to type international (unicode) characters into any Sakai toolStatus: Currently supported2) Ability for any tool interface to dynamically reflect a user's preferred international localeStatus: Supported pending translation3) Ability to create worksites whose page titles will statically reflect to a defined international localeStatus: Supported pending translation4) Ability to create worksites whose page titles will dynamically reflect a user's preferred international localeStatus: Not supported yet (pending development)5) Ability to create worksites whose page titles and tool interface will statically reflect a site's preferred international localeStatus: Not supported yet (pending development)6) Ability to support right-to-left languagesStatus: Supported pending customized skins or CSS (see Sakai-RTL-skin.jpg)

Fixed

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Sakai Translations

• http://qa1-nl.sakaiproject.org/international/index.html

Is this up to date? Where is 2.7 and sakai3?

JIRA Bugs for 2.7

17 BUGS reported in QA instance for new version 2.7

JIRA Bugs for 2.6

JIRA Bugs for 2.6

40 Open Bugs reported

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State of the Art

• Conclusions• Bugs that stay there forever• Bugs lost when version is changed• Some bugs have patches not applied

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I18N WORKING PROCEDURE

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I18n Working procedure

• Translations• Each language has a responsible institution• It is working good• Translation time after code freeze

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I18n Working procedure

• Bug Fixes• No management from the sakai foundation• Created by institutions and users• Sometimes are fixed• Not always are commited• It is necessary to contact the tool responsible

and convince them to apply it (use resources)

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I18n Working procedure

• Coordination• Sakai Board has a person for i18n• Berth has been that person for a long time• She is a volunteer involved in many projects,

no time to be used in i18n.• No meetings to dicuss problems and needs

(except this in conferences)

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NEW I18N PROCEDURE PROPOSAL

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New Procedure Proposal

• What we need?• Strong leadership and coordination• Help from sakai foundation• An easy way to commit changes (centralized?)

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New Procedure Proposal

• How we can achieve it?• Leadership from sakai foundation staff• Working group to coordinate needs• Periodical meetings to track bugs

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New Procedure Proposal

• Tentative overview for the first meeting• Bug identification• Bug priority• Bug assignment to institutions• Bug merging and QA• 3akai i18n plans

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DISCUSSION

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