Re: [Tsheetx-developers] Proposal of contribution for a French version

[David T. <tom...@us...>]

I agree with Scott here, Mark. I think if he can work in the same branch then you will automatically have some else who will test your work (and the other way round). Much better than another dead branch with no-one to test or integrate. Not that anything Scott does ends up being dead code ;-).
The translation work doesn't impact the architecture in itself, I hope.
Dave
 


Date: Thu, 3 Mar 2011 15:07:13 +0000
Subject: Re: [Tsheetx-developers] Proposal of contribution for a French version
From: sco...@gm...
To: ma...@rw...; tom...@us...
CC: tsh...@li...

Yes, I saw the email come through about 5 hours after I'd sent it...

Brutal is fine :-)   I am under no illusions of "cooperation", but I'd thought that perhaps if we made minimal changes to the pieces we wanted we could nearly drop in replacements as Joomla made improvements.  But, after starting to look at the work needed, the number of changes we will need to keep from sucking in the whole framework (which I totally agree, we don't want the entire framework) made this thought unrealistic.

I understand the fear that perhaps adding internationalization now will hurt the overall progress, but I think this is an important piece, and I've now become familiar enough with the joomla libraries, that I'm not willing to just drop it at this point.  I'm hopeful I can hammer out a decent "framework" borrowed and inspired by Joomla that will allow relatively easy translations within a week or two.  Plus, the current state of the project says it's quite a long ways off from being released; 3 months or more would be my guess.  If we were nearly ready for a release, I would be more easily swayed away :-)

Thanks for providing the reality check, I'll start hacking, hammering, and reshaping things to work for us.

-Scott


On Thu, Mar 3, 2011 at 1:41 PM, Mark Wrightson <ma...@rw...> wrote:


Hi Scott, 

Your emails did come through, i've just been too busy to reply.

I think the best idea is to take inspiration from Joomla and other source files you have seen and create your own that suits our requirements that as Dave says won't bloat the project with un-needed functions.

I also think we should put translation on the todo list for a point after we have got txsheet fully working and reskinned.  Ultimately my main concern is that there are so many changes being made at the moment, if we don't pool our resources and complete them first, we will get to a  point where all we will have is a mess.

Mark
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