Re: [Stellarium-pubdevel] Developer meeting minutes

[Reaves, T. <tr...@si...>]

Matthew, thanks very much for writing these up!



On Mon, Dec 20, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Matthew Gates <mat...@gm...> wrote:

> Here's a quick summary of some of the points from the developer
> meeting:
>
>  Web Site Translations
>
> The web site translations are out of date.  There was a proposal
> to get a non-coding volunteer to do the work of communicating with
> translators and collecting the translated .php files.
>
> It was agreed that the .php and .css files (basically the parts of
> the web site which are not mediawiki) should be put into the bzr
> repository in a branch called "domain".
>
> A more sophisticated method of doing translation through launchpad
> was mentioned by Fabien - perhaps generating the .php using a script,
> putting translatable strings through launchpad translations.
>
>
>  User Guide into Wiki
>
> To crowd source maintenance of the User Guide, MG described the
> intent to move it into the wiki.  The way forward is still not
> clear but there were numerous suggestions.  Some experimentation is
> needed to find out if there is a good method to do the conversion
> from LyX to mediawiki format.
>
>
>  Customizable Key Bindings
>
> It was generally agreed that there is a problem for people with
> some keyboard types and that we need the ability to customize keys
> some how.  The task seems separable into two parts: not having
> hard-coded keys, and a GUI to configure it.  Two ways of storing key
> bindings were mentioned - a json file or other binding-specific
> configuration file, and using a script.  There was not total
> agreement about what was best.  However, it should be possible to
> proceed with changes to the core which can be done before a decision
> on this needs to be made - i.e. making a KeyBindingsManager class,
> and getting it working with all keys (including this which are not
> directly associated with QActions, like the movement keys).
>
>
>  Attracting Planetarium Users
>
> Several reasons were suggested why the planetarium crowd really
> stuck with Nightshade, and how we might attract some of them back:
> - no commercial plugins )probably not possible because of licensing
> issues) - scripting engine not supporting stratoscript (fixable
> with some effort) - instability from QT/GL/Video driver problems
> (need magic) - no script recording (no elegant solution is obvious)
>
>
>  Plugin improvement
>
> Was raised but little said about it.  Specific issues: run time
> loading/unloading of plugins, unified way to add toolbar buttons.
>
>
>  Tasks
>
> Put out a call for volunteers for web site translation manager: MG
>
> Check web site files into bzr: MG
>
> Test LaTeX export -> Panodoc -> mediawiki for user guide import: TR
>
> Exploration of the key bindings solution: TR
>
>
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