Re: Defining Minimum Criteria for I18N Support
Rahul Bhalerao <b.rahul.pm <at> gmail.com>
2008-07-12 08:52:23 GMT
On Fri, Jul 11, 2008 at 1:10 PM, Ankitkumar Rameshchandra Patel
<ankit <at> redhat.com> wrote:
> Thanks for taking an initiative to define the criteria for language support.
> However, I am not sure whether the term (Language Support) used over here is
> correct or not. Because any package or feature of the application included
> in Fedora have any specific criteria for *support*. The criteria defined on
> the above URL could be called as a *Language Inclusion Criteria* in terms of
> I18n and L10n both instead of *Language Support Criteria*. Anyways, FLP team
> would be happy to define the Language Inclusion Criteria in terms of L10n I
> think.
>
> I could be wrong here, please correct me if I am. Because as far as I know,
> for Fedora, "Support" means voluntary help from community contributors
> through mailing lists, forums or IRC. That's it, I think! No specific
> criteria for it.
>
IMHO, 'inclusion' does not sound an appropriate word here. For
example, it would mean that the listed criteria be met even before the
inclusion process starts. Whereas the purpose here is to have a
reference to check after the inclusion process is completed.
The targeted problem here is that, how do we crosscheck if a
particular language is actually a part of fedora. The problem with
l10n/i18n work is that it is scattered through too many packages and
sub-components of the system. This makes it difficult to identify if
the language is usable or not on a given system. This also adds
ambiguity for developers to make the language go through a _feature's_
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