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

[Neal Caidin]

Hi J-F,

As far as I know, I don't have direct access to the experimental server, except to update properties.

What is the Jira?

Neal

On Apr 23, 2013, at 8:07 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque <jean-francois.leveque at upmc.fr> wrote:

> 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
>>>>>>>>>