[WG: I18N & L10N] i18n strings duplicated across projects

[Beth Kirschner]

Jean-Francois,

    I would call this more of a bug fix than a project that needs to  
go through incubation. Ideally, it would just update the the  
ResourceLoader class (in the kernel) and also move the redundant  
properties to one common properties file. I have commit rights for  
changes to the properties files, if the individual project teams don't  
have the resources and/or time to make the changes. You might want to  
take a look at SAK-12351 which has some ideas. Perhaps the simplest  
fix would be something like this:

// ResourceLoader.getString() pseudo-code

if (requested property file has key/value)
    return value;
else if (common property file has key/value)
    return value;
else
    return property key not found error;

    The sakai/config/localization directory provides us a common  
location for a global properties file, that is accessible to all  
projects (Thanks Anthony!), so this shouldn't be that difficult of a  
task.

Thanks!
- Beth

On Sep 9, 2009, at 6:19 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:

> Hi Clay and i18n WG members,
>
> There are issues such as:
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-16735
> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-16738
>
> I think these issues should be fixed.
>
> I volunteer to provide a solution for sharing i18n strings across  
> Sakai.
>
> If anyone else is willing to work on this, he's welcome.
>
> The thing I need is project teams volunteering to review and merge
> changes to the affected tools when a solution is available.
>
> I will also need a project directory on the main svn to host the
> shared-i18n code.
>
> I think this project should go through incubation, even if it's a  
> light
> incubation. Do you agree, Clay?
>
> Jean-François
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