irc office hour Wed, August 24, 2005 11 am - noon PDT

Brian Kirsch - Email Framework Engineer, will lead a discussian on the on=
going internationialization effort in Chandler.

Since our last Internationalization office hours, OSAF has made much=20
progress towards the goal of supporting localizations of the Chandler 1.0=
 release. With the removal of parcel.xml, the translation infrastructure =
has been re-architected with simplicity in mind. Throughout the app code =
base and testing framework significant improvements have been made to ens=
ure that we are on target for 1.0.

Speaking of 1.0, last week the team clearly defined the i18n road map=20
for the release. The details can be found at: =20
http://wiki.osafoundation.org/bin/view/Projects/InternationalizationProje=
ct.

So whats on tap for the irc office hour?

First, Brian  will cover the recent simplifications to the i18n architect=
ure and the progress made so far migrating resources, deprecating the old=
 locale directory, creating the new and improved i18n package, and updati=
ng the Chandler code base.

Next OSAF developers who have been working on adding i18n functionality w=
ill talk about what they have done, including issues  run in to and how t=
hey solved them.

And finally, Brian will address some undecided i18n issues with the team =
and open up the forum for suggestions and feedback. Undecided issues incl=
ude the role of the doc attribute (will it require translation?), how to =
determine whether a displayName attribute requires translation, and messa=
ge catalog organization.

Of course we will pause for questions and feedback through out the discus=
sion.



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