Marco Libero wrote:
Hi to all the committers,
also if I'm not a committers of OFBIZ I would like to suggest also one
more rule:
a committers will apply patch about UI only if it's i18n compliance.
It's a nice thought, but this just isn't going to happen. I18n is a priority in
OFBiz, but there are many other higher priorities. This also places a higher
burden on committers, who typically are not experiencing such an abundance of
time and money that they are looking for whatever they can to work on...
I have revisioned all the OFBIZ applications to be translatable in
different languages and it took to me about 4 months (not dedicated) to
perform it.
I can say also it is more difficult in term of time and know-how to
change an application that has hard-coded labels than do it when the
application was created.
From my (limited) experience, this isn't true. It's easier to review code and
move the text into labels. It does depend on the artifacts being created, but
for the most part i18n is done after the initial implementation is done anyway.
So I think it's better to not accept or change a patch that is not i18n
than commit it and change when someone wants to do it.
I think also if we want that OFBIZ become more visible it must be
compliance to internazionalization.
Visibility and adoption is a 2-way street in a community driven project. We do
want more adoption, but mostly more adoption from people like you who can and
want to help with things!
-David
