Hi,

Yes, that's correct. And while I can't say, what Gopal has in the pipeline,
it should work similar to e.g. Eclipse Babel:
http://babel.eclipse.org/babel/

Or the various Crowd Translation projects mentioned here:
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1866655/crowdsourced-translation

A good example would be Ackuna.com <http://ackuna.com/> which supports the
following string formats:

   1. Microsoft Excel (.xls)
   2. Microsoft Office Open XML (.xlsx)
   3. Android XML (.xml)
   4. Ruby YAML (.yml)
   5. Blackberry Resource (.rrc)
   6. iOS Strings (.strings)
   7. Java configuration (.properties)
   8. Gnu Gettext Protable Object (.po)

The XML based DDR resource format would be quite similar to several of
these markup languages.
IMHO the gathering of device signatures is far closer to e.g. translation
as it literally helps "translate" a mobile web application to a particular
device or class of devices.

P.s.: I proposed DM for ApacheCon Europe. Also told organizers, you could
be there and happy to act as co-speaker. Not sure, if they entered you, did
anybody approach you yet?

Werner

On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 5:27 PM, Bertrand Delacretaz <[email protected]
> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jun 27, 2014 at 4:56 PM, Werner Keil <[email protected]>
> wrote:
> > ...there has never been the vitality we'd hope if there was finally an
> infrastructure here...
>
> IIUC you mean that DeviceMap would be much more active if people could
> easily submit device data.
>
> If that's correct, how do you see this? What's the simplest setup that
> allows that to happen?
>
> -Bertrand
>

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