The Fedora I18n project is going to have a project meeting next week to discuss our feature plans for Fedora 9.
Time: 2007-11-29 05:00 UTC [1] Place: #fedora-meeting
If you have ideas for i18n related features please submit them before the meeting. If you are unable to attend you can also follow up with any comments afterwards to the meeting summary/log.
Some of the current possible features we are considering include:
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese characters - IM Desktop integration - Fonts - Thai fonts and support - new default Japanese font: VLGothic-fonts - additional fonts for current languages
Other suggestions and proposals are most welcome.
Jens
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Jens Petersen kirjoitti:
Some of the current possible features we are considering include:
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese characters
- IM Desktop integration
- Fonts
- Thai fonts and support
- new default Japanese font: VLGothic-fonts
- additional fonts for current languages
Other suggestions and proposals are most welcome.
Jens
I'm somewhat new on this list and I'm not sure if this belongs to the I18N project, but I've been doing some packaging to include a free Finnish spellchecker and hyphenator Voikko [1] to the Fedora packages.
Currently Voikko itself (the package libvoikko) and it's dependencies (malaga [2] and malaga-suomi-voikko) have been packaged, they'll probably hit the stable repositories of F-7 and F-8 in about a week or so.
There are a some parts of the Voikko project that I haven't packaged yet: Tmispell-voikko is a wrapper around ispell to use Voikko in ispell-compatible programs, it also has an enchant component. OpenOffice.org-voikko is an OpenOffice extension to support Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation through Voikko in OO.o.
Currently I'm a bit busy with other things, but my goal is to get all these components packaged for F-9. What do you think, could "Free Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
[1] http://voikko.sourceforge.net/ [2] http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
Hi Ville-Pekka,
Thanks for your mail.
I've been doing some packaging to include a free Finnish spellchecker and hyphenator Voikko [1] to the Fedora packages.
:
There are a some parts of the Voikko project that I haven't packaged yet: Tmispell-voikko is a wrapper around ispell to use Voikko in ispell-compatible programs, it also has an enchant component. OpenOffice.org-voikko is an OpenOffice extension to support Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation through Voikko in OO.o.
Currently I'm a bit busy with other things, but my goal is to get all these components packaged for F-9.
Great!
What do you think, could "Free Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature. (Just to clarify feature proposals will just be Fedora Features they won't be I18n Features per se - so we are just considering what features people in the fedora-i18n project want to propose.:)
Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
Thanks, Jens
Jens Petersen wrote:
What do you think, could "Free Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature. (Just to clarify feature proposals will just be Fedora Features they won't be I18n Features per se - so we are just considering what features people in the fedora-i18n project want to propose.:)
Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
I might, although all this is quite new to me. Are there any guidelines on writing one?
On 11/21/07, Ville-Pekka Vainio vpivaini@cs.helsinki.fi wrote:
Jens Petersen wrote:
What do you think, could "Free Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature. (Just to clarify feature proposals will just be Fedora Features they won't be I18n Features per se - so we are just considering what features people in the fedora-i18n project want to propose.:)
Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
I might, although all this is quite new to me. Are there any guidelines on writing one?
Take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList.
From the page: "A blank template is available at
Features/EmptyTemplate and a completed example is at Features/Template". Glancing through existing features also gives an idea on what to write on the proposal.
-d
Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
Jens Petersen wrote:
What do you think, could "Free Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature.
Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
I might, although all this is quite new to me.
Well it is partly a matter of how much attention you want for this work IMHO. I mean the packages can be added to Fedora of course whether it is an official accepted feature or not. So it is not like you have to propose it as a feature in order for it to go into Fedora. I think it would be very nice to have better support for Finnish in Fedora so the packaging itself is the most important part: in the longer term it might help with other languages that have long compound words too perhaps?
Are there any guidelines on writing one?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy
Jens
Jens Petersen kirjoitti:
Well it is partly a matter of how much attention you want for this work IMHO. I mean the packages can be added to Fedora of course whether it is an official accepted feature or not. So it is not like you have to propose it as a feature in order for it to go into Fedora.
Just a quick follow-up on this Finnish spellchecking issue. I've come to the conclusion that I won't make a feature proposal after all. The main reason is that then I won't have any "official" deadlines and I can work on the packages at my own pace. Of course my goal will still be to get all the packages in Fedora 7, 8 and rawhide before the F9 release.
Jens Petersen said the following on 11/19/2007 11:53 PM Pacific Time:
The Fedora I18n project is going to have a project meeting next week to discuss our feature plans for Fedora 9.
Time: 2007-11-29 05:00 UTC [1] Place: #fedora-meeting
If you have ideas for i18n related features please submit them before the meeting. If you are unable to attend you can also follow up with any comments afterwards to the meeting summary/log.
Some of the current possible features we are considering include:
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese characters
- IM Desktop integration
- Fonts
- Thai fonts and support
- new default Japanese font: VLGothic-fonts
- additional fonts for current languages
Other suggestions and proposals are most welcome.
I am sorry I was unable to attend you last meeting on IRC.
I worked with Paul Frields to put together a detailed Fedora 9schedule for the Docs team. Several of their milestones depend on work by the translation team.
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-docs-tasks.html
Would a similar schedule be helpful for your team? I would be glad to work with you to build it.
John