[WG: I18N & L10N] Announcement about support library for BasqueandMongolian

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

Hi all,

Maybe if Chris is unavailable, Neal can help us.

Cheers,

J-F

On 23/04/2013 13:44, Daniel Merino wrote:
> Hi again, Yuki.
>
> I wonder if your library has been added to some QA server and if we can
> take a look on the process somewhere or just help to test it.
>
> If you want, I could make a JIRA to ask this.
>
> Best regards.
>
> El 15/04/2013 16:38, Yuki Yamada escribió:
>> Hi Daniel,
>>
>> Thank you for testing the library. I'm very glad to hear that.
>>
>> However, I'm not sure about the performance, either. So, as the next
>> step, I'm now requesting to add the library into the QA server which
>> is the SVN trunk experimental build. I expect that more considerations
>> and test results will be gathered from there.
>>
>>
>> Sincerely,
>> Yuki Yamada
>> (^o^)/
>>
>>
>> (2013/04/12 20:44), Daniel Merino wrote:
>>> Hi, Jean-François, Yuki & others.
>>>
>>> I'm really happy to announce that Yuki's library seems to work perfectly
>>> in our test environment. It has solved a several years old local issue,
>>> the obligation to use comma as decimal separator in Sakai when working
>>> in basque (basque users had to use point in basque and comma in spanish,
>>> really confusing).
>>>
>>> The other screenshots of Yuki's confluence page
>>> (https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/I18N/Endorsed+I18n+Project)
>>> also works fine.
>>>
>>> My concerns about performance is just that we don't know if adding a
>>> library to Java could affect to it in some way. If some trunk/qa server
>>> would add this library too, maybe community could have some tool to
>>> test it.
>>>
>>> Thanks a lot for solving these problems. I hope that this library will
>>> be added to oficial Sakai code.
>>>
>>> Best regards.
>>>
>>> Jean-Francois Leveque escribió:
>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>
>>>> I'm afraid I don't know how to get the performance tests you're asking.
>>>>
>>>> About the nightly/trunk server, Chris Maurer might be able to help.
>>>>
>>>> Cheers,
>>>> J-F
>>>>
>>>> On 11/04/2013 15:04, Daniel Merino wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi, Jean-François.
>>>>>
>>>>> Of course, we will test it ASAP and will give you our feedback.
>>>>> Just we
>>>>> are quite busy right now testing our future 2.9.1 environment and
>>>>> fixing
>>>>> some issues. :-)
>>>>>
>>>>> It would be great if this library could be in a nightly/trunk server
>>>>> with Jenkins (or whatever) performance tests.
>>>>>
>>>>> Best regards.
>>>>>
>>>>> Jean-Francois Leveque escribió:
>>>>>
>>>>>> Hi Daniel,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> If the feedback is everything's OK, and I don't expect less from
>>>>>> Yuki,
>>>>>> please send it on list.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>> J-F
>>>>>>
>>>>>> On 02/04/2013 09:10, Daniel Merino wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Hi, Yuki.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Sorry for answering so late, these days are holidays in Spain.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> These are great news for us. Thank you very much for this work.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> We will test this ASAP in our test instance and will send you our
>>>>>>> feedback.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Best regards.
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> Yuki Yamada escribió:
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> As the former suggestion in
>>>>>>>> http://collab.sakaiproject.org/pipermail/i18n/2012-November/000412.html
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> , Basque and Mongolian languages are not fully supported in Java.
>>>>>>>> e.g., DateFormat and NumberFormat are not localized to them.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> So, I created a library "sakai-endorsed-i18n-1.0.jar" in order to
>>>>>>>> extend those APIs. It can be used simply putting into
>>>>>>>> $CATALINA_HOME/endorsed/ for Tomcat 6 or 7, without any
>>>>>>>> modifications in Sakai's source codes. Please see
>>>>>>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/display/I18N/Endorsed+I18n+Project
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> for the details.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I'd like to share and improve it with those language speakers,
>>>>>>>> because I'm just a Japanese. If you are interested, please try it
>>>>>>>> out and let me know what you think.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Direct download link:
>>>>>>>> https://confluence.sakaiproject.org/download/attachments/83035199/sakai-endorsed-i18n-1.0.jar
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> Sincerely,
>>>>>>>> Yuki Yamada
>>>>>>>>