[Building Sakai] [WG: I18N & L10N] i18n BOF - stockholm

[Ian Boston]

I always thought there was a similar calculation you could do with  
huge commercial software vendors.

Add up the amount of time wasted by everyone using their product. If  
it was significantly less than their profit, it was worth using the  
product, otherwise not.

On the editing i18n live, that absolutely no problem with Sakai3 as I  
am certain Nico will tell you, nothing is compiled, he would not have  
it any other way.

And as for editing the installation configuration live, we are using a  
OSGi Declaratively Managed service that has a dictionary of  
properties. There is already a UI (with documentation on each  
property) provided by Felix and OSGi. The only part we need to  
propagate appropriate changes to other app server nodes in the  
cluster. The intention is to write the configuration file to JCR, and  
watch that file on all nodes.

You will also be able as admin, webdav mount that subtree and edit the  
config in vi, notepad or whatever you like.... live.

Services that use the configuration have a responsibility to listen  
for changes and act on them *without* requiring a restart. Obviously  
there are some configuration setting that will need a restart, but  
many don't.

Ian

On 8 May 2009, at 07:31, Stephen Marquard wrote:

> I'm sure if everyone added up the hours that have been spent  
> tweaking properties files for 2.x through the edit / build /  
> deploy / test cycle, it would come to a truly impressive number.