Projects for OpenSolaris 2009.10

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
  • Split locale date to each category for sharing between locales. If so, we can reduce the disk size and maintenance cost. - P2 - Sayama-san
  • Add gnu libiconv for the compatibility with the other platform. - P2 - Sayama-san
• General Utilities
  • Adopting mozilla's encoding auto-detection to solaris, to take place auto_ef - P3 - Yong
• Major ON projects
• Desktop
• Locale installation and administration
  • Language Selection tool to install/uninstall locales P1 Suresh
• new locales to be added
  • Key CLDR locales
    • more Arabic locales (some of ar_AE, ar_BH, ar_IQ, ar_JO, ar_KW, ar_LB, ar_OM, ar_QA, ar_SY, ar_YE, ar_DZ, ar_LY, ar_MA, ar_TN) - P1 Jenda
    • more African locales: st_ZA, zu_ZA, en_ZA (South Africa), en_ZW (Zimbabwe) fa_IR (Persian - Iran) P2 Jenda
    • European variants: ga_IE (Gaelic - Ireland), gl_ES (Galicean - Spain), sr_RS (Serbian - Serbia), sv_FI (Swedish - Finland) hy_AM (Armenian - Armenia) - P3 Jenda
  • Euro variants for xx_CH.ISO8859 locales CR6630893 - P1 Jenda
• locale categories
• locale data
  • Split locale date to each category for sharing between locales. If so, we can reduce the disk size and maintenance cost. * P2 Sayama-san*
• General
  • Always display English message on Console (RFE) - P3- Sayama-san
    • Avoid l10n messages are garbaged in multibyte locales (by setting LC_MESSAGES=C in /etc/default/init and then gdm overwrites it?)

input

• input methods
  • Word input supplement via IM with spell check dictionaries - P3 - Sayama-san -
    • Add IM engine to support word input supplement (like OpenOffice) for all applications to reduce typing # or typo. New function for English/EMEA users other than keyboard layout emulation.
  • Track and contribute to the growth of ibus/imbus projects Ongoing P3 Yong
  • Modularize SunPinyin as share libraries, and implement python binding P3 Yong
  • Improve the Pinyin scheme supports in SunPinyin P2 Yong
• keyboards
• alternate input mechanisms
  • Implement hand-writing recognition engine, and adapt it to IIIMF/SCIM framework P2 Yong
  • Speech to Text engines P2 William
    • Improve the opensource'd TTS engine, espeak, for CJK languages

output

• fonts
• Layout Engines

printing

• FAM-2: mpage (print multiple pages per sheet) check if do have any i18n implication ?? (2009.10) - P3 - Suresh

interoperability

• Windows
  • Samba related issues - P3 - Fujiwara-san
• Linux
• Virtual Environments

standards

• Unicode 5.1 support

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

l10n

installation

• Language package updates using the repo

l10n infrastructure

• Infrastructure for doing in place translation. - P2 Suresh
  • Each GUI application will have a "Translate this app" menu entry when clicked this will take the user to web interface for translating the application.
    • either of these
      • LanuchPad implementation for OpenSolaris, 'Translate this Application' or even 'Translate message on this widge'
      • Pootle integration in Kenai
  • This can be optionally turned into instant installable l10n package for the user, enabling him to see the results of his work quickly.

• Developer access to messages - P1 Suresh
  • Suntrans message browser

Documentation

• Gnome splash screens with localized images/text per locales - P3 Unassigned
• Collection of localized themes/wallpapers to go with the distro (may be snaps of sceneries of country in the locale, combined with appropriated infused localized text like quotes by National heroes and such) - P3 Unassigned
• OpenSolaris content localization - P2 Various

Community

FOSS

• I18n of externally contributed FOSS

Community building

Infrastructure for community

• Access
• Contribution

Processes for community

• contribution process

Questions