Re: [jbosstools-dev] Re: We have branched - Codefreeze and status
Max Rydahl Andersen wrote:
> So far, excluding the "i18n" folder, everything
I've done has been
> simple string externalisation, nothing *big*. Just lots of small
> changes. Looking at the changesets, I haven't checked in any .java changes.
>
> Even so, it may not be 100% safe, since I had to do most of it by hand
> (no wizards for some things). As much as possible, I have tried to
> smoke-test them in the GUI, but it's difficult to test every string when
> you don't know the GUI inside out.
>
> Most of the remaining externalisation will be the easier, wizard-driven
> type, except where I have to introduce MessageFormat. However, once I
> start externalising entire plugins, rather than targeting individual
> strings from the GUI, comprehensive testing will become much more
> labour-intensive.
>
hmm - I might want to hold back on that till after GA then.
Okay then.
Could you give a status per module/plugin on what you have
covered/not-covered ?
Well, so far I haven't been working by plugins as such. I've
externalised strings in all the manifest files, thanks to the PDE
wizard. I also manually externalised strings I found in the Preferences
GUI (whereever I found them in plugin.xml or .java code; various
plugins) and a couple of other GUI aspects (Views and menus, from
memory). Nothing really comprehensive, but I wanted to clear up the
worst of the GUI-visible stuff. (I do plan to process the plugin.xml
files more systematically by converting to Pyx format and applying a
hideous-but-helpful grep to find anything which looks like English text.)
I have made a small start on plugin-by-plugin externalisation of the
code (using the Source/Externalize Strings wizard), but I haven't
checked any of it in, and I've stopped doing more because of the code
freeze.
Short answer: none of the plugins are "covered" fully.
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Sean Flanigan
Senior Software Engineer
Engineering - Internationalisation
Red Hat
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