1:53 a.m.
The Fedora I18n project is going to have a project meeting next week to
discuss our feature plans for Fedora 9.
Time: 2007-11-29 05:00 UTC [1]
Place: #fedora-meeting
If you have ideas for i18n related features please submit them before
the meeting. If you are unable to attend you can also follow up with
any comments afterwards to the meeting summary/log.
Some of the current possible features we are considering include:
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese characters
- IM Desktop integration
- Fonts
- Thai fonts and support
- new default Japanese font: VLGothic-fonts
- additional fonts for current languages
Other suggestions and proposals are most welcome.
Jens
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3:23 a.m.
Jens Petersen kirjoitti:
Some of the current possible features we are considering include:
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese characters
- IM Desktop integration
- Fonts
- Thai fonts and support
- new default Japanese font: VLGothic-fonts
- additional fonts for current languages
Other suggestions and proposals are most welcome.
Jens
I'm somewhat new on this list and I'm not sure if this belongs to the I18N
project, but I've been doing some packaging to include a free Finnish
spellchecker and hyphenator Voikko [1] to the Fedora packages.
Currently Voikko itself (the package libvoikko) and it's dependencies (malaga
[2] and malaga-suomi-voikko) have been packaged, they'll probably hit the
stable repositories of F-7 and F-8 in about a week or so.
There are a some parts of the Voikko project that I haven't packaged yet:
Tmispell-voikko is a wrapper around ispell to use Voikko in ispell-compatible
programs, it also has an enchant component. OpenOffice.org-voikko is an
OpenOffice extension to support Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation through
Voikko in OO.o.
Currently I'm a bit busy with other things, but my goal is to get all these
components packaged for F-9. What do you think, could "Free Finnish
spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
[1] http://voikko.sourceforge.net/
[2] http://home.arcor.de/bjoern-beutel/malaga/
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vpivaini(a)cs.helsinki.fi
8:57 p.m.
Hi Ville-Pekka,
Thanks for your mail.
I've been doing some packaging to include a free Finnish
spellchecker and hyphenator Voikko [1] to the Fedora packages.
:
There are a some parts of the Voikko project that I haven't
packaged yet:
Tmispell-voikko is a wrapper around ispell to use Voikko in ispell-compatible
programs, it also has an enchant component. OpenOffice.org-voikko is an
OpenOffice extension to support Finnish spellchecking and hyphenation through
Voikko in OO.o.
Currently I'm a bit busy with other things, but my goal is to get all these
components packaged for F-9.
Great!
What do you think, could "Free Finnish
spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature.
(Just to clarify feature proposals will just be Fedora Features
they won't be I18n Features per se - so we are just considering what
features people in the fedora-i18n project want to propose.:)
Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
Thanks, Jens
10:16 a.m.
Jens Petersen wrote:
> What do you think, could "Free Finnish
> spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature.
(Just to clarify feature proposals will just be Fedora Features
they won't be I18n Features per se - so we are just considering what
features people in the fedora-i18n project want to propose.:)
Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
I might, although all this is quite new to me. Are there any guidelines on
writing one?
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Ville-Pekka Vainio
vpivaini(a)cs.helsinki.fi
2:14 a.m.
On 11/21/07, Ville-Pekka Vainio <vpivaini(a)cs.helsinki.fi> wrote:
Jens Petersen wrote:
> > What do you think, could "Free Finnish
> > spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
>
> It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature.
> (Just to clarify feature proposals will just be Fedora Features
> they won't be I18n Features per se - so we are just considering what
> features people in the fedora-i18n project want to propose.:)
>
> Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
I might, although all this is quite new to me. Are there any guidelines on
writing one?
Take a look at http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/9/FeatureList.
From the page: "A blank template is available at
Features/EmptyTemplate and a completed example is at
Features/Template". Glancing through existing features also gives an
idea on what to write on the proposal.
-d
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loses both and deserves neither." (Anonymous)
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5:33 a.m.
Ville-Pekka Vainio wrote:
Jens Petersen wrote:
>> What do you think, could "Free Finnish
>> spellchecking and hyphenation" be an I18N feature for F-9?
> It sounds good to me as a potential F9 feature.
> Are you going to write a feature proposal? :)
I might, although all this is quite new to me.
Well it is partly a matter of how much attention you want for this work
IMHO. I mean the packages can be added to Fedora of course whether it
is an official accepted feature or not. So it is not like you have to
propose it as a feature in order for it to go into Fedora. I think it
would be very nice to have better support for Finnish in Fedora so the
packaging itself is the most important part: in the longer term it might
help with other languages that have long compound words too perhaps?
Are there any guidelines on writing one?
http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Policy
Jens
5:07 p.m.
Jens Petersen said the following on 11/19/2007 11:53 PM Pacific Time:
The Fedora I18n project is going to have a project meeting next week
to
discuss our feature plans for Fedora 9.
Time: 2007-11-29 05:00 UTC [1]
Place: #fedora-meeting
If you have ideas for i18n related features please submit them before
the meeting. If you are unable to attend you can also follow up with
any comments afterwards to the meeting summary/log.
Some of the current possible features we are considering include:
- Handwriting recognition for Chinese characters
- IM Desktop integration
- Fonts
- Thai fonts and support
- new default Japanese font: VLGothic-fonts
- additional fonts for current languages
Other suggestions and proposals are most welcome.
I am sorry I was unable to attend you last meeting on IRC.
I worked with Paul Frields to put together a detailed Fedora 9schedule
for the Docs team. Several of their milestones depend on work by the
translation team.
http://poelstra.fedorapeople.org/schedules/f-9/f-9-docs-tasks.html
Would a similar schedule be helpful for your team? I would be glad to
work with you to build it.
John
2:33 p.m.
Jens Petersen kirjoitti:
Well it is partly a matter of how much attention you want for this
work
IMHO. I mean the packages can be added to Fedora of course whether it
is an official accepted feature or not. So it is not like you have to
propose it as a feature in order for it to go into Fedora.
Just a quick follow-up on this Finnish spellchecking issue. I've come to the
conclusion that I won't make a feature proposal after all. The main reason is
that then I won't have any "official" deadlines and I can work on the
packages at my own pace. Of course my goal will still be to get all the
packages in Fedora 7, 8 and rawhide before the F9 release.
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