Multilingual Drupal working group
Hi all, Following Boris' suggestion in the latest thread about Drupal + i18n in this mailing list, I think we need some kind of working group to focus on this task. For which I'd like to appoint the same people he does + ... anyone else interested? Boris Mann wrote: ***************** I agree that no hacks/patches should be the main goal for clean multi- lingual solutions. Actually, a dedicated multi-lingual support team is probably a good idea -- Jose, Ber, Ben, Mike Gifford, Khalid, Development Seed off the top of my head, with Jose with my nomination for lead (he's been living the pain since something like 4.5) -- What do you guys need in terms of support from Drupal.org in order to move forward? ***************** I think we could start by preparing a nice DEP - Which I am already doing- , and then, after discussing about the architecture, modules, etc, be ready to start producing code as soon as Drupal 4.7 is out and the development is open again. Then we'd need some repository in which we could branch the code and work together so we can later merge all the changes back into Drupal, a test site, and some communications channel -forum, mailing list, plain email?- to coordinate. So, for the next days I'll be picking ideas from all the posts that have been written about the issue, and then I'll be posting some DEP draft... Best regards, Jose
On Saturday 18 March 2006 11:28 am, Jose A. Reyero wrote:
Then we'd need some repository in which we could branch the code and work together so we can later merge all the changes back into Drupal, a test site, and some communications channel -forum, mailing list, plain email?- to coordinate.
So, for the next days I'll be picking ideas from all the posts that have been written about the issue, and then I'll be posting some DEP draft...
Best regards,
Jose
Although I only speak (read, write, etc.) English, I'd be willing to help with testing or whatever as this matures. I am currently maintaining a site that I would really like a good multilingual aspect to: http://www.sourcemage.org/ -- Jason Flatt http://www.oadae.net/ Father of Six: http://www.flattfamily.com/ (Joseph, 13; Cramer, 11; Travis, 9; Angela; Harry, 5; and William, 12:04 am, 12-29-2005) Linux User: http://www.sourcemage.org/ Drupal Fanatic: http://drupal.org/
This sounds just like what I need to get back on track with Drupal Dev. Count on me!
I am just getting on speed witch CCK. CCK sounds like it can solve 1/5th of our problem: translating nodes. (the other four being translate 'configuration, like views menus etc', comments, users/profiles and vocabulaire/terms) Count me in. Together we can get these five (or more?) issues tackled, I am sure. Bèr -- PGP ber@webschuur.com http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_webschuur.asc PGP berkessels@gmx.net http://www.webschuur.com/sites/webschuur.com/files/ber_gmx.asc Hoe het naviatie blok te verbergen: http://help.sympal.nl/hoe_het_naviatie_blok_te_verbergen
I think we could start by preparing a nice DEP - Which I am already doing- , and then, after discussing about the architecture, modules, etc, be ready to start producing code as soon as Drupal 4.7 is out and the development is open again.
Jose, Thank you for getting this going again. You can count Development Seed in. I would also love to have Robert Douglas and Gerhard input in this process if they have time. Once we have a DEP that addresses the most pressing needs we would like to help fund your programming time to turn these plans into code. I know these processes can some times take a while and while we need to thoroughly flush out the needs and ideas of all interested parties I would love to set a rough time line so at a certain point we stop talking and start coding. So to get that started how can we merge your ideas that you have here: http://www.developmentseed.org/blog/internationalization/drupal4-7 with Ber's ideas here http://www.webschuur.com/node/525 and create a priority list? Can we make a base list and start adding to it and then when we are done use it as our speck to start coding? Maybe with the first items given the greatest priorities and the later items more as wish list functionality that we will eventually get to? What does everyone think? --eric -- -- Eric Gundersen Development Seed Strategies Design and Gardening http://www.developmentseed.org http://www.developmentseed.org/blog ericgundersen(skype) Tel. 202.250.3633 SMS. 202.297.0671 Fax. 806.214.6218
Hi, I'd also volunteer to conceive and to develop a solution for this problem. I'm an 18 year old student from Germany and I am building Drupal sites and coding for Drupal since about a year. Konstantin
What is the status on this? Is the translations group on groups.drupal.org where this working group is ( going to be) meeting? Thanks, -K
participants (8)
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Bèr Kessels -
Eric Gundersen -
Jason Flatt -
Jose A. Reyero -
Karthik -
Konstantin Käfer -
Michelangelo Partipilo -
Robert Garrigós Castro