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2011-03-27, 03:10:44
hmm... well thought out, but im not sure i want it to be this full featured right off the bat. Right now these are the baby steps I am going to take with 3.1:
#3 will not work as a couple people have suggested before. It will not limit all users to only creating one German file, or one Polish file, etc. If there are 4 different variations of the German language file uploaded into Extend - then so be it. That's what the rating system is for and eventually a front runner will emerge as the favorite. I'm not going to be restrictive in that regard.
Same exact thing with the plugin language files. It will be up to the plugin developer to add different lang files to their plugins. I am not going to create a separate system where people can update someone else's plugin with their new language file. If they want their language file included in that plugin's download - email it to the plugin creator or post it on the forums.
The suggestion to download a GS language file from within the console seems like an interesting one, but I will deal with that once the 3 above points have been taken care of.
I am going to apologize right now to those who think I am not catering enough to the i18n crowd, but in reality I am just trying to weigh the ROI on some of these changes as well as the general need for it. While I know GS has a huge international crowd - i feel like there are a lot of other things that need attention rather than dedicating the time needed to do everything that mvlcek suggested above. Like i said - all are good ideas - i just don't know if or where they are going to fit into the current GS ecosystem.
- 1. Get the auto notification working when GS needs updating. (javascript reading the API and alerting with this)
- 2. Reuse that same technology to check for plugin updates. There will probably have to be some Extend API changes made to handle this - but I will cross that bridge when we get there.
- 3. Get a version of mvlcek's translation plugin working on get-simple.info as a signed in feature inside the Extend administration panel.
#3 will not work as a couple people have suggested before. It will not limit all users to only creating one German file, or one Polish file, etc. If there are 4 different variations of the German language file uploaded into Extend - then so be it. That's what the rating system is for and eventually a front runner will emerge as the favorite. I'm not going to be restrictive in that regard.
Same exact thing with the plugin language files. It will be up to the plugin developer to add different lang files to their plugins. I am not going to create a separate system where people can update someone else's plugin with their new language file. If they want their language file included in that plugin's download - email it to the plugin creator or post it on the forums.
The suggestion to download a GS language file from within the console seems like an interesting one, but I will deal with that once the 3 above points have been taken care of.
I am going to apologize right now to those who think I am not catering enough to the i18n crowd, but in reality I am just trying to weigh the ROI on some of these changes as well as the general need for it. While I know GS has a huge international crowd - i feel like there are a lot of other things that need attention rather than dedicating the time needed to do everything that mvlcek suggested above. Like i said - all are good ideas - i just don't know if or where they are going to fit into the current GS ecosystem.
