5:13 p.m.
7月 30 05:11:33 <glezos> So, let's get this partae started
7月 30 05:11:35 <glezos> <meeting>
7月 30 05:11:36 <glezos> rollcall
7月 30 05:11:54 <cmpahar> ChristosBacharakis
7月 30 05:11:55 <glezos> Who's around this {late in the evening|early
in the morning}?
7月 30 05:12:32 <vpv> VillePekkaVainio
7月 30 05:12:41 <glezos> DimitrisGlezos
7月 30 05:12:59 <noriko> NorikoMizumoto
7月 30 05:13:03 <runa_b> RunaBhattacharjee
7月 30 05:13:10 <noriko> do we go under this chanel?
7月 30 05:13:58 <glezos> noriko: Let's, since we aren't many people --
this way other lurkers will have the chance to participate.
7月 30 05:14:15 <noriko> glezos: good idea :-)
7月 30 05:14:34 --- glezos がトピックを変更しました: Fedora
Localization Group meeting -- Agenda:
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Meetings#agenda
7月 30 05:15:12 <glezos> Last meeting was on 17/6:
http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-trans-list/2008-June/msg00035.html
7月 30 05:15:40 <glezos> (no minutes)
7月 30 05:16:46 <glezos> One thing we were supposed to do was to give
feedback for F10's schedule
7月 30 05:16:49 <glezos>
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-10/f-10-all-tasks.html
7月 30 05:17:14 <glezos> From what I see on
https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/105, noone provided any and the
feature freeze is again on the same date as the string freeze
7月 30 05:17:27 <glezos> which means packagers have only 24h to
re-package translations (once again)
7月 30 05:17:51 <glezos> This is probably the main reason why some
translations don't make it into the release.
7月 30 05:20:23 <runa_b> funny how we missed it... was there any mail
asking for comments ?
7月 30 05:20:30 <glezos> (feel free to drop comments at any time, btw)
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7月 30 05:20:56 <vpv> and if developers are "allowed" to change strings
until the string freeze and then the translations are supposed to be
packaged really soon, translations won't probably be in sync with the
messages either
7月 30 05:21:11 <glezos> runa_b: Jesse mentioned we should drop
comments on the ticket during the meeting.
7月 30 05:21:36 <runa_b> glezos: hmmm ok
7月 30 05:21:48 <glezos> vpv: yeah, ideally we should have the string
freeze 5 days before the feature freeze.
7月 30 05:23:11 <glezos> Let's get an agenda for the meeting going.
7月 30 05:23:21 <glezos> - I can give some update on the progress of
our tools
7月 30 05:23:56 <glezos> - FUDCon Brno in September: comments, do we
want to see something happening there, etc.
7月 30 05:24:16 <cmpahar> i will be at FUDCon :)
7月 30 05:24:34 <cmpahar> I can do something..
7月 30 05:24:42 <cmpahar> i dont know, whatever you want! :)
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7月 30 05:26:01 <cmpahar> anyone alive?!
7月 30 05:26:36 <glezos> cmpahar: a few L10n people will be there
7月 30 05:26:56 <glezos> so the Q is whether there is something we
could do together.
7月 30 05:27:05 <glezos> marek: If you have any ideas, let us know.
7月 30 05:27:37 <cmpahar> what is Q?
7月 30 05:27:42 <glezos> (question)
7月 30 05:27:59 <glezos> Anything else we'd like to see discussed today?
7月 30 05:28:04 <runa_b> glezos: marek: do you think, you guys could do
a translation QA fest or something?
7月 30 05:28:27 <runa_b> something related to translation review..
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7月 30 05:29:34 <glezos> runa_b: I thought at a point whether a L10n QA
might be useful, but I wonder whether there'll be enough developers with
i18n-ized tools attending.
7月 30 05:30:07 <runa_b> hmm
7月 30 05:30:10 <marek> hm, I'm not sure if I'll find the time
personally, as I'll be organizing a lot of stuff
7月 30 05:30:46 <marek> hi all btw, I've just got finally home :)
7月 30 05:30:57 <glezos> I'm having a Transifex session, so I guess
L10n Qs will be asked there anyway.
7月 30 05:32:23 <marek> yup
7月 30 05:32:30 <noriko> glezos: anything particular if you like to
have it with at QA that can be prepared?
7月 30 05:32:35 <marek> and I'm sure you'll get poped-up for random
question during the day
7月 30 05:32:47 <cmpahar> my opinion is to decide what we want to do?!
We want QA, we want to show our progress etc. What?!
7月 30 05:33:24 <cmpahar> we want to attract people?!
7月 30 05:33:43 <noriko> cmpahar: 'our progress' sounds nice
7月 30 05:33:53 <glezos> Hm.
7月 30 05:34:34 <glezos> I could (also) give one presentation on the
Fedora L10n Project per se, showing the progress we've done. I already
have some figures and numbers.
7月 30 05:34:56 <marek> glezos: that would be great
7月 30 05:35:56 <glezos> OK. I'll put it on the page, and see how the
barcamp goes -- maybe people will be interested in both sessions, maybe not.
7月 30 05:36:10 <marek> I think it will mostly interest rpm/developers
7月 30 05:38:06 <noriko> I like to shoot the question 'what is the
status of transifex?'
7月 30 05:38:14 <glezos> noriko: good Q
7月 30 05:38:32 <glezos> I released Transifex 0.3 the other days
7月 30 05:38:42 <glezos>
http://groups.google.com/group/transifex-devel/browse_thread/thread/bbf44...
7月 30 05:39:06 <glezos> Development is *really* active these days
7月 30 05:39:16 <glezos> You can check out
http://transifex.org/timeline that shows a bunch of development changes
7月 30 05:39:27 <glezos> And also take a look at our Roadmap:
http://transifex.org/roadmap
7月 30 05:39:48 <glezos> So the current status is that we're
stabilizing the development tree and there are 4 people working on it.
7月 30 05:40:33 <glezos> GNOME is considering adopting it, we're
planning on integrating Damned Lies in Tx (upstream agrees on this move)
and Stephane, the maintainer of Vertimus is already working in moving it
into Tx.
7月 30 05:41:41 <vpv> great news :) I think I actually went to the
transifex.org site for the first time a couple of days ago, that's
really nice as well
7月 30 05:42:21 <noriko> phew! fantastic. congratulation the release of
0.3, glezos
7月 30 05:42:24 <glezos> vpv: We've put some effort in making it a
solid upstream open source project.
7月 30 05:43:11 <glezos> I'm not sure when we'll be able to update
translate.fpo to version 0.3, but the benefits won't be too many (mostly
under-the-hood changes)
7月 30 05:43:25 <glezos> We might want to wait for v0.4 which will
hopefully roll out in a month.
7月 30 05:43:32 <glezos> Now, one of the greatest things I'm working on
is a "centralized" instance of Tx, independent of any project, probably
at transifex.net
7月 30 05:43:56 <glezos> It will allow new user registrations, any
project hosted anywhere will be able to hook up with it, etc.
7月 30 05:44:01 <runa_b> glezos: what would the centralized instance do?
7月 30 05:44:21 <runa_b> ahh ok
7月 30 05:44:38 <runa_b> do you mean to do something like an openID?
7月 30 05:44:45 <glezos> runa_b: openID as well.
7月 30 05:44:57 <runa_b> nice :)
7月 30 05:45:06 <glezos> The vision is to have these Tx instances
"talk" to each other, so we can have a global L10n community in a way.
7月 30 05:45:29 <glezos> Projects like Fedora and GNOME can have their
own community, and each Tx instance can "submit" stuff to other
instances and wait for approval by the local communities.
7月 30 05:45:52 <glezos> FWIW, projects like OpenSUSE, Maemo and Mono
have shown interest in it as well.
7月 30 05:46:11 <glezos> Anyone wanting to follow up on News, can
monitor http://transifex.org/wiki/News or
http://pipes.yahoo.com/transifex/updates.
7月 30 05:46:12 <glezos> eof.
7月 30 05:47:44 <glezos> Since we're on the tools subject: Our instance
of DL (statistics) is a bit outdated right now.. Piotr has been updating
the XML conf files, but my testing sandbox is broken and haven't had
time to debug it for a while.
7月 30 05:50:42 <vpv> glezos: btw, now that Fedora is using Mediawiki,
have you heard about the Mediawiki PO translation extension etc.
project, which is going on as a part of the Finnish Summer (of) Code of
this year?
7月 30 05:51:10 <glezos> vpv: yeah, I talked about it a bit with the MW
guys
7月 30 05:51:33 <glezos> I didn't have the chance to take a good look
at it yet though
7月 30 05:51:52 <glezos> But it seems promising. The place to ask is
probably #mediawiki-i18n
7月 30 05:53:14 <glezos> Okey, anything else we want to discuss?
7月 30 05:53:55 <noriko> brain storm = yes one thing
7月 30 05:53:57 <vpv> glezos: right. I just wanted to make sure that
you guys know about each other and so on, maybe the mediawiki stuff
could be useful to us at some point...
7月 30 05:54:23 <ankit> glezos: noriko runa_b : sorry got late, was
away from my machine!
7月 30 05:54:40 <runa_b> ankit: no worries.. the meeting is on over here
7月 30 05:54:44 <glezos> vpv: They definitely could be useful, yeah..
7月 30 05:54:47 <noriko> hi ankit
7月 30 05:54:52 <ankit> hi noriko
7月 30 05:54:56 <glezos> ankit: welcome
7月 30 05:55:01 <ankit> glezos: :)
7月 30 05:55:28 <glezos> ankit: feel free to scroll up and comment on
anything you'd like.
7月 30 05:55:30 <noriko> somewhat and somehow is any way that we can
hear more comment on L10n from other translators?
7月 30 05:55:48 <cmpahar> welcome ankit
7月 30 05:57:07 <glezos> noriko: Maybe asking on the mailing list could
get more feedback.
7月 30 05:57:24 <ankit> guys, F10 schedule is up (with translations
deadline),,, http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/L10N/Meetings#agenda
7月 30 05:57:27 <ankit> oops
7月 30 05:57:32 <ankit> http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/10/Schedule
7月 30 05:57:35 <glezos> And/or create a wiki page like L10N/Feedback
linked in from /L10N..
7月 30 05:57:46 <noriko> glezos: I mean more mandatory way :P
7月 30 05:58:17 <glezos> ankit: Yes, the thing is that String & feature
freezes are on the same date.
7月 30 05:59:16 <noriko> to see how many languages are active and how
happy they are, so we can more ppl to be more active.
7月 30 05:59:27 <glezos> noriko: Maybe a poll could help.
7月 30 05:59:47 <vpv> Oh, we don't seem to have Rawhide statistics on
DL yet, what's the situation there?
7月 30 06:00:22 <glezos> noriko: I'd say either a poll on a website
offering such functionality and send an email to all per-language
mailing lists.
7月 30 06:00:49 <noriko> glezos: k. I will think about that and find
some clear vision on it.
7月 30 06:01:43 <glezos> noriko: a bunch of Qs sent on the list asking
for replies might get some constructive feedback as well.
7月 30 06:03:23 <noriko> vpv: you right...
7月 30 06:03:58 <glezos> vpv: our DL instance is screwed up.
7月 30 06:04:36 <glezos> I think I'm the only person having a test
instance that can push the changes live..
7月 30 06:05:50 <glezos> We did try to recruit a few people from the
community, but the whole landscape of our L10n tools is pretty
complicated...
7月 30 06:06:30 <glezos> I've mentioned in a few occasions to RH folks
that having a person payed to administrate our L10n infrastructure will
greatly help both the community as well as our internal translators
7月 30 06:07:24 <glezos> AFAIK we don't have someone from RH being
responsible for these issues yet.
7月 30 06:08:00 <glezos> Anyway -- I'll try to find some time in my
vacations to work on them.
7月 30 06:10:18 <ankit> glezos: i thought asgeirf was helping you with
some tx issues...
7月 30 06:11:52 <glezos> ankit: asgeirf is working on the development
of Tx, yeah
7月 30 06:12:29 <glezos> but our L10n infrastructure (servers, Damned
Lies configuration, RPMs) definitely need some more love.
7月 30 06:13:09 <ankit> ah i see
7月 30 06:13:13 <glezos> At least that's what Bugzilla says.. :/
7月 30 06:13:32 <glezos> anyway. Looking at the bright side of life.
7月 30 06:13:33 <glezos> :)
7月 30 06:13:51 <glezos> Anything else we need/forgot to discuss before
wrapping up?
7月 30 06:14:21 <noriko> it is good sending singnal for help, it will
be picked up soon.
7月 30 06:15:22 <ankit> i had a doubt about the date decided for
"translation deadline" for Fedora 10...
7月 30 06:15:51 <ankit> is it decided by FLESCo or the release-engineering?
7月 30 06:15:54 <ankit> any idea ? anyone?
7月 30 06:16:48 <noriko> good question, I like to know too. I could not
pick up any mail in f-t-l asking that to us.
7月 30 06:17:05 <glezos> noriko: done:
http://dimitris.glezos.com/weblog/2008/07/29/l10n-admins-wanted/
7月 30 06:17:29 <glezos> ankit: RelEng decides the release dates, I think.
7月 30 06:17:44 <glezos> ankit: AFAIK they took the same approach we
had in the previous release.
7月 30 06:18:25 <runa_b> glezos: was the FLSCo consulted.. since this
time we do have a SC?
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7月 30 06:19:19 <glezos> runa_b: I'm pretty sure a few folks looked at
the proposed schedule before final decision, but I don't know about the
"official" things (approval stamps etc)
7月 30 06:19:47 <runa_b> glezos: oh ok
7月 30 06:20:19 <glezos> ankit: Speaking on releases -- have you guys
discussed the idea we had, to have Fedora relnotes translated in
languages we have internal translators for?
7月 30 06:20:34 <ankit> glezos: actually, there wasn't any date
specified for "Translation freeze" before a week ago, I guess... after i
caught it, i sent an e-mail to release-engineering people (John Poelstra
and jesse keating) to know about the deadline for translation
7月 30 06:20:55 <glezos> ankit: ok
7月 30 06:20:57 <ankit> so, i was expecting them to consult FLSCo, but
they did it themselves it seems...
7月 30 06:21:18 <cmpahar> guys sorry, i have to go.. happy to see you!!
7月 30 06:21:20 <cmpahar> bb
7月 30 06:21:28 <ankit> anyways, but i truely feel that we/l10n/FLSCo
should be consulted to decide dates related to translation freeze
7月 30 06:21:31 <runa_b> bye cmpahar
7月 30 06:21:35 <ankit> cmpahar: no worries, you can read the logs :)
7月 30 06:21:42 <cmpahar> i wil :)
7月 30 06:22:24 <glezos> ankit: I think we'll need to continue working
in raising awareness and being responsible for certain things before
things like this happen.
7月 30 06:22:26 <ankit> so, if we can come up with some plan, we could
approach release-engineering officially to decide the date
7月 30 06:22:52 <ankit> glezos: agree...
7月 30 06:23:03 <glezos> For what it's worth, I participate on the
Release meetings, so at least we have someone representing L10n in the
official process.
7月 30 06:23:54 <glezos> ankit: you could comment on the bug report
that we'd like the string freeze date to happen 5 days earlier, and send
an email to releng (CCing John Poelstra) asking them to move the date..
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7月 30 06:24:34 <ankit> glezos: oh, we do have bug report for this? i
didn't know!
7月 30 06:25:21 <glezos> ankit: https://fedorahosted.org/rel-eng/ticket/105
7月 30 06:25:42 <ankit> thx glezos
7月 30 06:25:59 <glezos> right.
7月 30 06:26:14 <glezos> I think it's getting pretty late in India,
let's take any other topics on the list or after the meeting
7月 30 06:26:20 <glezos> Closing in 30
7月 30 06:26:38 <ankit> btw, just to update you guys, i got one more
thing added into the F10 schedule, that's "Allow Fedora 10 Pre-branch"...
7月 30 06:26:53 <ankit> which resolves "Branching" issue for us I
guess...
7月 30 06:27:13 <ankit> But, I am not sure, whether all Developers will
follow these dates to make the branches for their packages
7月 30 06:27:42 <glezos> ankit: they won't.
7月 30 06:27:53 <ankit> so, what I had in my mine while I attended
Boston FUDCon is, to inform the developers individually through e-mails
about this date and the importans of Branching
7月 30 06:27:56 <glezos> (just making sure it's pretty clear.:)
7月 30 06:28:05 <ankit> glezos: i know, but, some of them may
7月 30 06:28:39 <glezos> ankit: Ideally we could track all these
through Transifex.. Each developer adding his own branch automatically.
7月 30 06:28:44 <glezos> um.. *directly.
7月 30 06:29:38 <ankit> ah, that's a great idea to find out which
package is branched and which one is not
7月 30 06:30:09 <glezos> ankit: These are the features I'd like to work
in the next months.
7月 30 06:30:10 <glezos> OK
7月 30 06:30:13 <glezos> Let's wrap up here
7月 30 06:30:21 <glezos> and continue the discussion later.
7月 30 06:30:23 <glezos> </meeting>