[haiku] Re: Proposals for the LocaleKit
- From: Niels Reedijk <niels.reedijk@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:39:15 +0100
Hi Kevin,
On 10 February 2010 21:25, Kevin Ar18 <kevinar18@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> I estimate it's probably about a week of fulltime work. Make it two to
>> account for unforseen obstacles... :-)
>>
>> If you had to rewrite layout-managed apps to use the old BeOS API, then it
>> would be worth a summer of work, but the other way around... it's mostly
>> deleting heaps of code and just watching out you don't delete too much in
>> a
>> hurry.
>>
>> Best regards,
>> -Stephan
>
> Sounds like someone should write out all the stuff to be accomplished
> * need translators
> * need people to fix issues in the code so it can support translation
> * need people to convert the layout manager in all the apps
>
> then post this so everyone can see what is needed and attract some new
> people to do this stuff. After all, this stuff could be done by quite a few
> people, since it's not complex code. All it would need is someone to keep
> things organized, and show people how to get involved once people respond to
> the request.
>
> BTW, does the translation team have their own place to discuss translation
> issues? It would seem necessary to manage so many people and not distract
> the core development.
Yes. Translation discussion is done on the haiku-doc list (the name is
misleading). Though if you mean discussion on how to implement RTL,
this is very much core stuff.
> Well, anyways, just a suggestion... maybe it would take some burden and
> distraction off of the current devs.
They have a /dev/null for things that are not off-topic but not
interesting to them.
N>
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