If we create localisation support step by step in accordance with demand and willingness to contribute by those who want to use the individual languages, I propose to reuse the donated bundles in a different approach. The approach is, create and publish localisation support as plug-ins for each language separately. I've had an hour spare time this morning, and I've got a german language plug-in (nbm) to work ready for NetBeans 11.1. Technically, this is no difficult task, but the license issue remains. But, of course, fixing one language is much less work than 25. All of it can be documented in Confluence. If proceeding this way, then there's no need to integrate the language part of the 3rd donation into the main repository. We'd rather create a separate one on GitHub. Boris
On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 11:45, Geertjan Wielenga <geert...@apache.org> wrote: > I reckon if excluding some languages will simplify things, go ahead and > just do so. When people complain about any of the missing languages, we’ll > say to them: ‘great, now it’s time for you to get involved with us on > figuring this out’. > > I.e., make it as simple as possible and exclude any problematic languages > for the moment, better to get something completed partly than nothing at > all. > > Gj > > > On Wed, 24 Jul 2019 at 11:42, Boris Heithecker <boris.heithec...@gmx.net> > wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > I've started to work on the language bundles again, and I'm still stuck > > with the license conversion. Although having made several improvements > and > > adaptions to the license categorization and conversion tool available at > > https://github.com/apache/netbeans-tools/tree/master/convert, it still > > outputs about these numbers > > "cddl, unrecognized file: 1324 > > no cddl license: 33876" > > The problems are corrupted files, typos, old Sun licenses not converted > for > > Oracle, or missing license headers. Some bundles contain more corrupted > > files, other less. > > > > Before continuing this work, it would be good to know if users really > need > > all potentially available locales. There are 25 locales left, after > having > > already deleted some of them which were originally present in the donated > > zip. I've removed those bundles where I could determine by myself that no > > work had been done on them except starting a localisation project by > > copying the default. (For example, the Bundle ta (Tamil) did not contain > a > > single Tamil character, so I removed it). However, there are, for > example, > > bundles for ca (Catalan) or gl_ES (galician) which require a lot of work > > and I think we should determine the demand for before tackling it. Also, > I > > can't easily check the implementation status of these languages. > > > > How could we start a vote? > > > > Can I get permissions to start a page in Confluence on the status of this > > conversion, listing among others the donated language bundles? > > > > Boris > > > > > > -- > > Boris Heithecker > > > > > > Dr. Boris Heithecker > > Lüneburger Str. 30 > > 28870 Ottersberg > > Festnetz: +49 4205 315834 > > Mobil: +49 170 6137015 > > > -- Boris Heithecker Dr. Boris Heithecker Lüneburger Str. 30 28870 Ottersberg Festnetz: +49 4205 315834 Mobil: +49 170 6137015
