Verbatim:Meeting Notepad

Verbatim » Meeting Notepad

Upcoming

Attendees:

• current pootle status
• current verbatim status
• steps and timeline to replace jToolkit
  • We've talked about Pylons, Django, and Turbogears
• steps and timeline for merging mozootle->trunk
  • some current discussion
• Mozilla Q4 goals
  • Meetings are happening this week. Need to have some verbatim goals.
  • Webdev Radar, including verbatim goals

May 8, 2008

Attendees: dwayne, friedel, sethb, mic, clouserw, axel

• I see and read about support for XLIFF - is that just a conversion to .po, or are you reworking the internals of Pootle to deal with XLIFF?
  • (dwayne) Originally conversion was all to .po. Now we're looking at moving to XLIFF
  • Pootle can already read/write as XLIFF.
  • With XLIFF:
    • can store location of file in the l10n process
    • can mark a variable in a piece of text using the xliff format
• Can we work with AMO file formats?
  • We can write conversion scripts to convert to .po
• (clouserw) mozilla.com uses flat HTML files for localization. Do you have any scripts or recommendations for localizing these files?
  • (dwayne) Two ideas:
    • Generate the flat files from .po's with a script
    • Build a script to try to parse the HTML. Haven't had the best luck with this in the past.
• (seth) How do the translation suggestions handle multiple suggestions?
  • (friedel) These are just suggestions, it's still the responsibility of the translator to know.
• (seth) Do you have ideas and/or intentions to cleanup the layout and make it less cluttered?
  • (dwayne) Yes, we'd like to merge the edit/view pages; replace the text with icons to save space
• (seth) You mentioned an error correction module - can you describe what that is?
  • (friedel) Looks at syntax of files to verify correct markup as well as common l10n errors
• (clouserw) I've been digging into the admin features, specifically looking at the goals - are those per file?
  • (Dwayne) Have the ability to define goals, and inside of that goal you can add files and people. This was created with a slightly different mindset; more for large groups of people in the same room. The goals require online interaction.
• (clouserw) One thing I missed in the screencasts were interaction with a source repository. Are there further screencasts planned?
  • Yep
• (clouserw) I'm a little worried about the scalability of all these flat files and repository commands. Has there been any load testing?
  • (dwayne) Openoffice is the largest install right now (around a half million words per language). There have been some complaints about speed, mostly around the search engine (lucene).
  • Working on addressing speed issues as they come, making it more memory efficient, etc.
  • (friedel) Have looked at moving statistics, etc. to a database. This work is not in the stable version yet
• (clouserw) The authentication is just a flat file at this point - are there any other auth modules available like LDAP or some kind of SSO?
  • (dwayne) No, OpenID was planned for a SoC project but fell through.