I just enabled Sinhalese (as "si") on l10n wiki but it will take some
time until it's fully ready (new entries are created for each
translation keys and there is a lot of those).

On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 10:58 AM, Nanduni Nimalsiri
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Dear Sir,
>
> Thank you very much for the quick reply. I like UX stuff basically and
> that's why I am very interested in this project. I am trying to get
> familiarized with the translator, so that I can come up with better
> suggestions for improvements.  I would be very much glad if you can enable
> Sinhalese support for me to experience the translator further.
>
> I shall follow your instructions and report once done or if I have any
> problem. Thank you.
>
> Best regards,
> Nanduni.
>
> On 1 March 2016 at 13:44, Thomas Mortagne <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Nanduni,
>>
>> Always great to see someone so interested in working on XWiki :)
>>
>> We did not really defined any scope for l10n proposal. For me the best
>> is that you play a bit with it (maybe translate a few things, I can
>> enable Sinhalese or some other language that would not be listed yet
>> if you want) and see what are the main pain points for a translator.
>> You also have a few ideas on
>>
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Improvel10nxwikiorg2016
>> and http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/i10n.
>>
>> Then you make a proposal with what you think you can achieve in the
>> GSOC timeframe.
>> http://design.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/Improvements/i10n is a good
>> place to put details of your proposal and then discuss it on the
>> mailing list with the community.
>>
>> Note: you can also ask quick questions on IRC (see
>> http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/IRC/). My id on IRC is tmortagne
>> (but no need to always as to me personally :)) there and my time zone
>> is GMT+1 (France) and it's more or less the same for most of the core
>> dev team.
>>
>> Here are the main features right now:
>>
>> 1) A UI for contributor to translation keys with mainly
>> ** a UI which display all keys filtered by language, resource and
>> status (empty, outdated, etc)
>> ** a search UI
>>
>> This is the main target for the GSOC. The idea is to make easier to
>> contribute.
>>
>> 2) UI and automated scheduler to update the keys and default
>> translation on l10n.xwiki.org from the source (add new keys, update
>> the english version if something change on git side, etc)
>>
>> This is used mostly by the dev team but it could use some love, like
>> making things more asynchronous (right now you start an import, get a
>> timeout and hope that it will be done at some point on the background)
>>
>> 3) UI and API to export translation as usable resources (that's mainly)
>>
>> This one is ok enough for now so unless you see some easy improvements
>> on your side no need to concentrate too much on it.
>>
>> On Tue, Mar 1, 2016 at 6:59 AM, Nanduni Nimalsiri
>> <[email protected]> wrote:
>> > Dear Sir,
>> >
>> > I am *Nanduni Nimalsiri,* a third year undergraduate at Department of
>> > Computer Science and Engineering, University of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka. I
>> > had
>> > been going through the XWiki's GSoC projects ideas list since 20th
>> > February
>> > and  I was very eagerly waiting for XWiki to get selected for the 2016
>> > Google Summer of Code programme. I am very happy that XWiki got selected
>> > this time, because I had always been expecting to take part in a  GSoC
>> > project with XWiki community.
>> >
>> > Actually I am very interested in contributing to open source projects
>> > and I
>> > already have experiences in working with a variety of open source
>> > projects.
>> > I am very familiar in programming with Java, C, C#, JavaScript, PHP,
>> > XML,
>> > jQuery, web designing, cloud applications and many more which I have
>> > used
>> > for most of my university projects and other exterior projects. I am a
>> > quick learner and I am very confident that I would be able to catch up
>> > with
>> > new technologies very soon.
>> >
>> > I am very familiar with JavaScript  and UI stuff. So I found an
>> > interesting
>> > project in XWiki ideas list that matches with my interests. Out of the
>> > project ideas listed, I would like to contribute to the project *Improve
>> > l10n.xwiki.org
>> >
>> > <http://dev.xwiki.org/xwiki/bin/view/GoogleSummerOfCode/Improvel10nxwikiorg2016>.
>> > *The
>> > project description includes : "*The student will have to study it and
>> > propose improvements, there is no definite list of things to do*". Can
>> > you
>> > please let me know the scope of this proposed project and how I should
>> > get
>> > started. Thank you.
>> >
>> > Best regards,
>> > Nanduni.
>> >
>> > --
>> > *Nanduni Nimalsiri*
>> > Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering,
>> > University
>> > of Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
>> > Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
>> > email : [email protected], [email protected]
>> > blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
>> > website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
>> > mobile : +94714114256
>> > _______________________________________________
>> > devs mailing list
>> > [email protected]
>> > http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> Thomas Mortagne
>
>
>
>
> --
> Nanduni Nimalsiri
> Undergraduate, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, University of
> Moratuwa, Sri Lanka.
> Software Engineering Intern, WSO2 Inc. (http://wso2.com)
> email : [email protected], [email protected]
> blog : http://nanduni.blogspot.com/
> website: http://nanduni-nimalsiri.branded.me/
> mobile : +94714114256



-- 
Thomas Mortagne
_______________________________________________
devs mailing list
[email protected]
http://lists.xwiki.org/mailman/listinfo/devs

Reply via email to