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

[Beth Kirschner]

I'd worry that making the change to each and every tool would broaden  
the scope of the change, making it riskier and less likely to succeed.  
Are you concerned about the timeline of getting out a new kernel  
version or something else?

- Beth

On Sep 9, 2009, at 10:04 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:

> Beth,
>
> With config avalaible, you're right we don't need another project  
> and this is a bug fix. The name config made me forget there already  
> was localization in it.
>
> I'm afraid the link in SAK-12351 to http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-bundles/ 
>  does not work anymore.
>
> I would favor a common directory in localization/bundles/src/bundle/ 
> org/sakaiproject/localization/bundle for these shared strings.
>
> Instead of adding a test in ResourceLoader.getString() and having to  
> update the kernel, I would favor tools explicitly calling the common  
> bundle properties.
>
> What do you think?
>
> Beth Kirschner a écrit :
>> 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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