IRC Meeting on 2012-11-04
Time and location
Meeting on 4th of November of 2012 at 20:00 UTC
GNOME i18n IRC channel on GNOME's server: #i18n channel on GIMPNET
Agenda
Review the GUADEC BoF points
Improve msgctxt strings (see mailing list discussion)
add new ideas here
Who runs the next meeting (supposed to happen on 2012-12-02) keep it as the last one
Participants
add yourself
IRC Log
(21.15.09) gforcada: so, should we start?
(21.16.17) kelemeng: gforcada: absolutely
(21.17.34) kelemeng: so, about the progress on the BoF points
(21.18.37) kelemeng: I have just resent my calendar proposal to desktop-devel-list, this time after subscribing
(21.18.49) gforcada: kelemeng: great!
(21.18.54) kelemeng: let's hope it gets some positive feedback
(21.19.47) gforcada: I hope so, as it would be so much easier for developers (I guess) that sending a mail or so, we just have to keep advertising it on the planet (I can do that every second month for example)
(21.21.18) kelemeng: yeah, that would be probably useful
(21.21.32) kelemeng: so let's say we are waiting for responses on this
(21.21.46) kelemeng: I have also sent a mail about stopping the translation of obsolete docs to the documentation list, no response to that yet
(21.23.50) gforcada: yeah, saw that too, I'm guessing that they will not like it that much
(21.24.07) gforcada: but at least is a way to tell them that we care (just as they do, of course)
(21.28.01) kelemeng: then, the priorities... I didn't had time to look into those. Two conferences in a month is too much, I guess
(21.28.32) kelemeng: um, splitting modules, I mean
(21.29.38) gforcada: I did some work locally on that
(21.30.29) gforcada: I tried it but we have some problems with gtk and locations...
(21.30.48) gforcada: I also send a proposal (no comments so far) about the splitting
(21.30.49) kelemeng: how so?
(21.31.41) gforcada: ?
(21.32.03) kelemeng: I mean what problems with gtk and locations?
(21.32.49) kelemeng: the new proposal is also something worth considering, only my time didn't allowed it yet
(21.33.20) gforcada: they have two ui po files that we want to show on different categories, but d-l has to have quite a few changes to allow this
(21.33.43) kelemeng: oh I see
(21.34.39) gforcada: I haven't tried it yet, but we could cheat...
(21.34.52) kelemeng: however, it's getting more urgent by the day, so please kick me if i don't come up with something by the end of the next week
(21.34.57) gforcada: creating 2 gtk+ modules ...
(21.35.16) gforcada: I will be in Japan by then :P
(21.36.04) kelemeng: no problem. pinging me on the list to feel myself ashamed could work too :P
(21.40.11) kelemeng: looking at the second proposal, mostly it makes sense, I think I'll continue with that
(21.42.54) kelemeng: what else? how is the dead modules work progressing?
(21.43.08) kelemeng: any way to help with that?
(21.43.57) gforcada: (about the second proposal) yes, we have to fill bugs though...
(21.44.38) gforcada: dead modules ... I looked into Andre's code and it's quite cool, it still pending to be integrated into d-l, but should not be that difficult
(21.45.03) gforcada: actually I can use the 14h trip to Japan (and the 14 back) to look at that
(21.45.31) kelemeng: that would be awesome
(21.47.35) kelemeng: one more thing came into my mind: we could create mail templates on the wiki, so that whenever it will be necessary to notify a developer, any team member will be able to do so
(21.47.49) kelemeng: the ones you already sent could be the base of these
(21.49.07) andre: uh yay
(21.52.29) gforcada: sorry I was taking dinner, done now
(21.52.37) gforcada: anything else to talk about?
(21.54.00) kelemeng: there is this bullet point on the meeting's page:
(21.54.01) kelemeng: Improve msgctxt strings (see mailing list discussion)
(21.55.06) kelemeng: IMHO, we should not talk much about this. someone needs to start coding, nothing else makes sense, as the biggest issue with intltool is the lack of manpower.
(21.57.25) gforcada: true, we could ask about mentoring in summer of code to improve this things ...
(21.58.08) kelemeng: yeah, that's a good idea. we can have quite a few i18n-related SoC projects next year
(21.59.25) gforcada: kelemeng: we need mentors though