[Building Sakai] Change proposal for 2.8: export_filename_date_format (i18n to configuration)

[Jean-Francois Leveque]

NP, I always welcome criticism because I might had missed something.

J-F

Beth Kirschner a écrit :
> Sorry -- I misunderstood. Setting the ISO default once is best.
> 
> - Beth
> 
> On Jul 22, 2010, at 10:10 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
> 
>> I think most non-English locale users are not comfortable with English 
>> format.
>>
>> This is why I was suggesting using a ISO default and being able to set 
>> the format through configuration once instead of 5 times through 
>> localization right now.
>>
>> How is it less simple than your suggestion?
>>
>> J-F
>>
>> Beth Kirschner a écrit :
>>> Possibly true, but just aiming to simplify localization. I'm doubtful 
>>> most translators will know how to 'localize' the date format string, 
>>> so as long as folks are comfortable with most locales defaulting to a 
>>> US format, than this shouldn't be a problem.
>>> - Beth
>>> On Jul 22, 2010, at 5:10 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>>>> I think your suggestion is not as simple as needed and may be risky. 
>>>> Are we sure we only need to remove spaces in every locale to have a 
>>>> suitable string for part of a file name? I wouldn't bet on it.
>>>>
>>>> J-F
>>>>
>>>> Beth Kirschner a écrit :
>>>>> I would suggest formatting the date automatically, leveraging the 
>>>>> Java DateFormat.getDateFormat() which takes Locale as an argument. 
>>>>> The resulting date string can then be transformed into a suitable 
>>>>> filename by removing spaces. Automating this would be one less 
>>>>> thing to worry about when localizing Sakai.
>>>>> - Beth
>>>>> On Jul 21, 2010, at 10:49 AM, Jean-Francois Leveque wrote:
>>>>>> Hi all,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I think export_filename_date_format (used in Gradebook, Roster, 
>>>>>> Tests &
>>>>>> Quizzes (Samigo), User Membership and SiteStats) is not a i18n 
>>>>>> property
>>>>>> but a configuration property.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Because it's used in several tools, I would like it to become a 
>>>>>> general
>>>>>> configuration property.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> I propose to use the name general.export_filename_date_format in
>>>>>> configuration and to set its default to the ISO date format of 
>>>>>> yyyy-MM-dd.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> For further details and related problems, you can check:
>>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-17240
>>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/STAT-191
>>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15872
>>>>>> http://jira.sakaiproject.org/browse/SAK-15682
>>>>>>
>>>>>> What do the code owners and others devs think?
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Cheers,
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Jean-Francois