Projects for OpenSolaris 2009.04

General infrastructure - libraries
General Utilities
Locale installation and administration
input methods
alternate input mechanisms
l10n infrastructure
Infrastrucutre for community
Processes for community

i18n

locale

• General infrastructure - libraries
  • ICU 4.0 - cover ICU4C and ICU4J (binary, source, developer, and a couple of bundled tools) - P1- Rachel
  • G11NInstall interface - P1 - Jan Trejbal
    • Provide information about G11n elements (languages, locales, etc.), and about their packaging to Installer and other teams.
• General Utilities
  • Integrate Locale Creator in OpenSolaris + make it easy to contribute back (contrib repo). - P1 - Jan Lana
  • localelauncher - We have done ARC and the initial documentation for this. - P2 - Suresh
  • convmv - converts filenames from one encoding to another. Integrate convmv utility (http://www.j3e.de/linux/convmv/) - P2 - Jan Trejbal
  • Replace current closed G11N src - P3 Sayama-san
• Major ON projects
  • Zones
    • Implications with BrandZ
      • CR 6532100 run time paths should use $ORIGIN and hard coded locale paths - P2 Jan Hnatek
• Desktop
  • DSK-6: Metatracker g11n. Everything except PS search works for i18n text in metatracker. Work on PostSscript search ? - P3 - Suresh
  • DSK-7: Provide KDE 4.1 as an alternative desktop environment for those wishing to install it. Big chunk this work needs to make sure of the i18n status to be planned ?- P3 - Fujiwara-san (Applications are available from net repository)
  • Japanese A11Y speaker needs to be integrated into spec-files-extra at sourceforge.net - P2 - Fujiwara-san
  • Bicon needs to be integrated into spec-files-extra at sourceforge.net - P2 - Fujiwara-san
  • separate KDE l10n packages by major languages + extra languages likes GNOME. P2 - Fujiwara-san
• Locale installation and administration
  • G11n bits install mngmt using IPS tags P1 Asano-san
    • Define file-based tags so that image-wide filters for language/locale/territory/etc. can be used to install G11N bits
    • PKG-2 Filters for language specific packages in the repository is a feature. (2009.04)
  • INS-1 Feature - There is profile based installation for installer (2008.11), Installation language support in the profile P1 Asano-san
• new locales to be added
  • Key CLDR locales - Jenda
    • ka_GE (Georgia), be_BY (Belarus), es_US (Spanish - USA) - P1 Jenda
    • af_ZA (Afrikaans - South Africa) -P2 Jenda
    • az_AZ (Azerbaijan), ky_KG (Kyrgyzstan), it_CH (Italian - Switzerland) - P3 Jeanda
• locale categories
  • Add more LC_ categories as in linux distros - P2 - Suresh
• locale data
  • CLDR-1.6 locale data integration - P1 - Jenda
  • Spell Checkers, Dictionaries
    • stardict 3.x integration on Solaris/OpenSolaris - P2 - Yong
    • Integrate Turkish spellchecker (https://zemberek.dev.java.net/) - P2- Jan Trejbal
• General
  • manpage i18n enhancement - Make it possible to install only man pages with UTF-8 encoding instead of different encoding per locale. - P2 - Asano-san
  • Language/locale selection improvement for live session via GRUB menu (and installer?) - P1 Asano-san (Depends on the base GRUB plans)

input

• input methods
  • Integrate libm17n and scim-m17n to OpenSolaris to finish the stack of SCIM - P2 Yong
  • Support customized Hanja dictionaries for Hangul IM - P3 Yong
• keyboards
  • virtual keyboards - P1 - Naoyuki
    • This project is different from GNOME On-screen Keyboard (GOK) (Gnome-2.24 (2008.11)) that this will enable user to customize current iiim keyboard layout emulation
• alternate input mechanisms

output

• fonts
  • No font glyphs are currently displayed with a sqare with the unicode value in it, MacOS do display the actual glyph shape in addition too, this will be useful for fallback fonts. - P3 Suresh
• Font tools
  • fntsample (http://sourceforge.net/projects/fntsample/) - P3 Jan Hnatek
• Layout Engines
  • Some pango issues may need looked into - P3 Fujiwara-san

printing

• gnome-print PS output looses the glyph encoding info and cannot search in it due to that. Fix this - P2 - Suresh

interoperability

• Windows
• Linux
• Virtual Environments

standards

• Unicode 5.1 support - - P1 - I.S.
  • Update UTF-8 locale method shared object - to ensure that the UTF-8 locale common method shared object will be capable of handling all Unicode 5.1 characters for all UTF-8 locales in Solaris. This is a small project of RFE/bug-fix level, the related CR 6829160. Target release is April

testing

• Collect the target global user profiles and write mockup user scenarios and execute tests based on them to our offering fits in the customer requirement.
• Gnome
• Major Desktop Apps

l10n

installation

• Language package updates using the repo - P2 - Asano-san

l10n infrastructure

• Customer Information Access
  • command browser (in Development) P1 Jeffrey

Documentation

DOC-2: Provide the user the opportunity of installing additional online help for the applications they use, as and when they need them. What about localized documentation. How it will fit in the picture. P2 - Unassigned

Community

FOSS

• I18n of externally contributed FOSS - Ongoing P1 Fujiwara-san

Community building

• Create a program calling all non-English speakers to make their locale as the work desk and encourage them to file bugs. - P2 Suresh

Infrastrucutre for community

• Access
  • Run pilots to make sure community can easily navigate through opensolaris.org and find relevant information - P2 Suresh
• Contribution
  • man page translation by community (needed pieces in place ?)- P1 Unassigned - ongoing
• Nurturing
  • Keep track of the issues filed by community and provide timely updates - P1 Suresh

Processes for community

• contribution process
  • webRTI process open to community is in place - P1 - Suresh