Cross-posting to website-discuss. -- Jim Suresh Chandrasekharan wrote: > Hi Jim/Chris, > > In > > http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/ > > Does it makes sense if we are modifying C5 as E5 withe the following > proposed changes ? > > Regards, > Suresh > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > > *E5 The software should support internationalization and localization > > * > > Internationalization is the process of designing software so that it can > be adapted to various languages and regions *without engineering > changes*. Localization is the process of adapting software for a > specific region or language by *adding locale specific components and > translating text*. > > Wiki internationalization could be broadly segmented as: > > 1. Base i18n support in software: Mainly Unicode support. > > Wiki localization could be broadly segmented as: > > 1. Infrastructure support for ease of localization: Software should > have interfaces so that it's easy for users to extend support to > other languages. Drop down menus to select languages when creating > content , language based web content organization etc. will come > under this. > 2. Translation of the 'structural' components of the site: menus, > button text, icons etc. For example, with J2EE applications, such > localization is achieved by using locale-specific resource bundles. > 3. Page translations - for example FAQs, developer guides, governance > pages. Also pages owned by a particular community, e.g. a MDB or > ZFS 'HowTo' guide. > > All three points require the software to be able to render different > languages. Community contributed requirements which address > internationalization issues (and, in part, wikis) are available here > <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/portals-v2/> and the current > Country Portals are detailed here > <http://opensolaris.org/os/project/portals/>. > > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jim Grisanzio wrote: > >> hey ... >> >> Chris Phelan from the OpenSolaris engineering team has starting a >> conversation on website-discuss about wiki requirements and tools for >> opensolaris.org. If you have an interest in this, please feel free to >> follow and contribute. If you are leading a country/language portal, >> please follow very closely and participate directly because this is >> the conversation that will lead to the upgrade of the site and the >> replacement of the current portals with something very much better. :) >> Sign up to website-discuss here: >> http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/website-discuss >> >> Jim >> >> >> ------------------------------------------------------------------------ >> >> Subject: >> Re: [website-discuss] website content issue summary - WIKI requirements >> From: >> Chris Phelan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Date: >> Tue, 20 May 2008 12:37:40 +0100 >> To: >> [email protected] >> >> To: >> [email protected] >> >> >> All, >> >> I've revised and consolidated the requirements such that they are >> consistent with the process and practice used for the DSCM evaluation. I >> removed some duplicate entries and added references where appropriate. >> >> I think this is a more manageable set. >> >> The internationalization requirements need to be formalized and will be >> updated soon. >> >> http://www.opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/ >> >> >> Chris >> >> >> >> Michelle Olson wrote: >> >> >>> John Plocher wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> Michelle Olson wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> >>>>> 2. Poll data, wiki, and re-structuring communities >>>>> ... >>>>> But, I went back through the mail on the topic from last year and put >>>>> together a requirements candidate summary page here: >>>>> http://opensolaris.org/os/project/website/wiki_requirements/ >>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> First of all, thanks gazillions for pulling all this together! >>>> >>>> Second, where is the right place to discuss (and influence) the >>>> wiki requirements you mentioned? >>>> >>>> -John >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> Hi John, >>> >>> I'm glad you found these notes useful. To clarify, the list I put >>> together is just a set of candidate requirements, cobbled from all the >>> discussion we had last year. Many of them might not apply today, and >>> lots of them are specific to books from the docs community. (In the last >>> 6 months docs have been piloting mercurial repos to do collaboration, so >>> lots of reqs. might well be moot.) >>> >>> I think website-discuss will be the right place to review potential >>> requirements when we get there, but it is a 'hot topic', so it might be >>> best to set up a project and separate mailing list for detailed >>> conversations. For now, you can certainly add new candidate requirements >>> to the page on genunix here: >>> http://www.genunix.org/wiki/index.php/OpenSolarisWiki >>> >>> Just add a section called 'John's List', have at it, and send a ping >>> here with a pointer to your additions. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Michelle >>> _______________________________________________ >>> website-discuss mailing list >>> [email protected] >>> >>>
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