CLWE Iteration Plan

Please also see Admin Todos for CLWE non-coding tasks

Feeback from uses

Below are links to pages where users have provided feedback

• CLWE Feedback from André Guyon
• CLWE Feedback from Alain Désilets - Marta Stojanovic - André Guyon - 2009-01-20

Overview and tool usage

Instead of using wiki pages to keep track of tasks, the trackers will be used. Wiki pages can still be used to contain more details about a task or contain discussions.

To Add a Tracker item

The tracker status will be used as a communication method.

• open (green) : Task is ready to be done or is in progress
• pending (yellow) : Questions remain before development can be completed or task can be closed
• closed (gray) : Task is completed, tested and accepted.

Function groups

Function Group A: Polish current version of multilingual support

• This iteration does not introduce new features. It just evaluates current features and does minor improvements to make them more usable and useful.

Function Group B: Minimal useful version

• This version will have everything that's needed to be actually usable.

Function Group C: Reading and translating from unfamiliar languages

• This version will include features to help visitors read content in languages they are not that familiar with, and translate content from languages they are not that familiar with.
• Machine Translation technology will be required for this.

Function Group D: Translation Effort Management and Coordination

• This implements features to allow the site's translation community to self-organize, determine priorities, etc...
• Although these tasks are important, most of them CAN already be done by creating wiki pages and using them for coordination. That's why we leave them to later iterations.

Function Group E: Computer Assisted Translation Tools

• This implements support for standard CAT tools used by professional translators.
• Things like bilingual dictionaries, terminology databases and specialized lexicons, translation memories.

Function Group F: Improvements From a Translator's Feedback

• These are improvements proposed by André Guyon. They can span several function groups. For now I'm putting them separately here.

Iteration plan

The iteration plan as presented is subject to changes over the course of the project. More iterations may be added beyond iteration 4 as required by the project.

The order in which tasks are arranged depends on both the user priorities and internal dependencies.

Iteration -1 : Before we started

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Switch to Another Language Version of a Page	A	Prior	lphuberdeau	Tue 15 of Jan., 2008 14:41 GMT
	Create a Page in a Particular Language	A	Prior	lphuberdeau	Tue 15 of Jan., 2008 14:40 GMT
	Associate a Page to Its Existing Translation	A	Prior	lphuberdeau	Tue 15 of Jan., 2008 14:41 GMT

Iteration 1 : Groundwork

• January 7 to January 25

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Configures the Site to Support Content in Multiple Languages	A	One	lphuberdeau	Tue 22 of Jan., 2008 17:33 GMT
	Do the Initial Translation of a Page into a Given Language	A	One	lphuberdeau	Tue 22 of Jan., 2008 19:05 GMT
	Basic translation UI	B	One	lphuberdeau	Tue 22 of Jan., 2008 17:31 GMT

Iteration 2 : A Step Forward

• January 28 to February 15

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Create a Page in a Particular Language	A	Two	lphuberdeau	Tue 19 of Feb., 2008 15:05 GMT
	Set language preferences	A	Two	lphuberdeau	Mon 28 of Jan., 2008 16:45 GMT
	Propose higher quality translations	B	Two	lphuberdeau	Tue 19 of Feb., 2008 14:46 GMT
	Allow content to be added to any translation without being lost	B	Two	lphuberdeau	Tue 05 of Feb., 2008 18:20 GMT
	Propagate critical translation requests	B	Two	lphuberdeau	Thu 24 of Jan., 2008 20:57 GMT
	Translate "button" should be an entry in the languages picklist	A	Two	alain_desilets	Thu 24 of Jan., 2008 21:16 GMT

Iteration 3 : Meta Content

• February 18 to March 7

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Become Aware that the Site is Multilingual	A	Three	lphuberdeau	Tue 04 of Mar., 2008 16:44 GMT
	Translation of page structures	B	Three	lphuberdeau	Tue 04 of Mar., 2008 15:54 GMT
	Tag translation and sharing	B	Three	lphuberdeau	Tue 04 of Mar., 2008 15:54 GMT
	Prevent bots from messing up translations	A	Three	lphuberdeau	Tue 04 of Mar., 2008 15:52 GMT
	Translation of article points to a new wiki page, not new article	B	Three		Wed 18 of Mar., 2009 17:26 GMT

Iteration 4 : Refine and Improve

• March 10 to March 28

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Identify up-to-date-ness of a page	B	Four	lphuberdeau	Wed 12 of Mar., 2008 03:14 GMT
	Translate page with unknown language needs more prominent warning message	B	Four	alain_desilets	Wed 02 of Apr., 2008 13:34 GMT
	Minor tweak to language preferences dialog	A	Four	alain_desilets	Tue 11 of Mar., 2008 16:38 GMT
	Caption improvement to translation dialog	B	Four	alain_desilets	Tue 11 of Mar., 2008 21:15 GMT
	Translations should not have to always be done in one go	B	Four	lphuberdeau	Wed 02 of Apr., 2008 13:37 GMT
	BUG: Diff always assumes translation mode	A	Four	alain_desilets	Tue 25 of Mar., 2008 21:05 GMT
	BUG Caption wrong when updating Spanish version	B	Four	alain_desilets	Tue 03 of June, 2008 17:57 GMT
	BUG with SVN	B	Four	Xavi	Tue 03 of June, 2008 16:01 GMT
	posting comments as anonymous with anti-bot code failed to me	B	Four		Fri 26 of Sep., 2008 06:42 GMT
	add antibot catpcha for changing language for pages (tiki-edit_translation.php related features) for anonymous	A	Four		Tue 14 of Oct., 2008 19:30 GMT

Iteration 5 : Computer Assisted Translation and Machine Translation Integration.

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Search box at bottom of Translation dialog (or in module or popup)	E	Five	bey	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 20:48 GMT
	Implement wrappers for other free online dictionaries	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 20:30 GMT
	Import an existing dictionary	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 20:31 GMT
	Site has its own local terminology database. User can enter entries.	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 18:38 GMT
	Implement automatic alignment editor to deal with pages that already exist, which were not created using a segment by segment editor	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 18:40 GMT
	Change translation editor so it shows each segment in its own edit box	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 18:42 GMT
	When user saves a translation, aligned segments go into a TM	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 20:33 GMT
	Search field on translation editor searches not only in dictionaries and TBs but also in TM	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 18:47 GMT
	Automatic alignment of paralle texts	E	Five	alain_desilets	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 20:45 GMT
	Wrapper for Machine Translation services	E	Five	marta.stojanovic	Wed 10 of Dec., 2008 20:47 GMT

Project Backlog : Your Dreams Come True?

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	Support for direct translation on new page creation links	B	TBD	lphuberdeau	Wed 12 of Mar., 2008 15:36 GMT
	Cross-language notification	B	TBD	lphuberdeau	Wed 06 of Feb., 2008 14:28 GMT
	Handle change reverts	B	TBD	lphuberdeau	Tue 15 of Jan., 2008 15:17 GMT
	Improve translate page UI/Workflow	A	TBD	lphuberdeau	Thu 24 of Jan., 2008 14:05 GMT
	Constrained translation GUI	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 12 of Feb., 2008 21:49 GMT
	Bring user's attention to the Translations box	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Wed 02 of Apr., 2008 13:35 GMT
	Better diff when translating change to a page	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 19 of Feb., 2008 21:35 GMT
	Diff inserts weird end of line caracters	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 03 of June, 2008 15:38 GMT
	Automatic identification of synch or out-of-synch status	C	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 19 of Feb., 2008 22:00 GMT
	Constrained line-by-line translation GUI	C	TBD	alain_desilets	Wed 02 of Apr., 2008 13:35 GMT
	Translated changes appearing as needing translation	C	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 19 of Feb., 2008 22:07 GMT
	Demo movie of CLWE features	B	TBD	ricks99	Sat 06 of Sep., 2008 09:30 GMT
	Renamed Page Retains Its Link With Other Linguistic Versions	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 03 of June, 2008 15:41 GMT
	Renaming A Page Signals That Other Linguistic Versions Of That Page May Need To Be Renamed	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Thu 03 of Apr., 2008 16:57 GMT
	Renames a Page to Account for Renaming of one if its Translation	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Thu 03 of Apr., 2008 16:58 GMT
	Renamed Page Retains Its Link With Other Linguistic Versions	B	TBD	Xavi	Tue 03 of June, 2008 15:38 GMT
	"Send urgent translation request" should only be shown when appropriate	B	TBD		Sun 01 of June, 2008 13:30 GMT
	Preview should show the diffs (with colors) of what you just modified		TBD		Mon 07 of Apr., 2008 00:37 GMT
	minor vs normal vs urgent translation request: make it clearer		TBD		Mon 07 of Apr., 2008 02:20 GMT
	"Urgent Translation Request" option should only be offered when creating original content for a page which is part of a translation set	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Sat 21 of June, 2008 16:03 GMT
	Page description translation	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Tue 08 of Apr., 2008 13:50 GMT
	How easy should it be to change the language of a page, once set?		TBD		Sun 13 of Apr., 2008 00:04 GMT
	permission "minor" seems useless on doc.tw.o: registered can't use it even if granted to them		TBD	Xavi	Tue 03 of June, 2008 16:25 GMT
	Show page by language instead of pagename		TBD	ricks99	Tue 15 of Apr., 2008 20:01 GMT
	Table of contents appear up to date even when they aren't	B	TBD	alain_desilets	Mon 21 of Apr., 2008 13:55 GMT
	Switching Languages Breaks the Structure		TBD	ricks99	Tue 22 of Apr., 2008 16:57 GMT
	Using the Open Page As Structure option breaks language switching		TBD	ricks99	Mon 05 of Oct., 2009 13:28 GMT
	Add languages for Project Lingua	B	TBD	marclaporte	Thu 15 of May, 2008 17:32 GMT
	Fix inline diff	B	TBD	Xavi	Tue 20 of May, 2008 16:18 GMT
	Implement multilingual blogging		TBD		Thu 15 of May, 2008 17:16 GMT
	Translate French language "Complete Translation" button		TBD		Fri 16 of May, 2008 10:42 GMT
	diff when a translation is started is showing wrong information		TBD	Xavi	Tue 03 of June, 2008 16:25 GMT
	Robot possibly assigning translations	B	TBD		Thu 26 of June, 2008 11:22 GMT
	Cannot disconnect one language version without disconnecting all others	B	TBD		Sat 21 of June, 2008 15:58 GMT
	Language equivalence not transitive	B	TBD		Tue 24 of June, 2008 12:47 GMT
	Save language association to wiki pages in logs (wiki apge history, action log, etc.)	B	TBD		Thu 26 of June, 2008 11:25 GMT
	Super-small window upon propagating changes		TBD		Fri 27 of June, 2008 14:29 GMT
	Changes to languages should be trackable	B	TBD		Wed 02 of July, 2008 12:11 GMT
	"Complete translation" does not affect translation status		TBD	Seb	Fri 04 of July, 2008 18:15 GMT
	How to deal with translation of content created by modules?	D	TBD	alain_desilets	Mon 11 of Aug., 2008 16:02 GMT
	Layout of translation UI is unusable	B	TBD		Sat 06 of Sep., 2008 09:35 GMT
	When creating a new translation, too easy to leave language at the default	C	TBD	alain_desilets	Fri 05 of Sep., 2008 20:05 GMT
	Translate button is ambiguous		TBD	alain_desilets	Fri 08 of May, 2009 11:37 GMT

Function Group F: Improvements From a Translator's Feedback

	Title	Function Group	Iteration	Assigned to	LastModif
	More editor space	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 18:04 GMT
	Direct link to wiki syntax help	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 17:48 GMT
	Two windows for translation	F		marta.stojanovic	Thu 19 of Feb., 2009 22:19 GMT
	Save shouldn't close the editor	F		marta.stojanovic	Thu 19 of Feb., 2009 22:22 GMT
	Mark a part of text to be verified later	F		marta.stojanovic	Thu 19 of Feb., 2009 22:23 GMT
	Insert special chars easier	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 17:47 GMT
	Special chars should include more choice	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 17:54 GMT
	Edit toolbar buttons should be re-ordered	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 17:57 GMT
	Edit toolbar buttons should be better explained	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 17:58 GMT
	Wysiwyg or compressed tags at least	F		marta.stojanovic	Fri 25 of Dec., 2009 18:00 GMT
	Usual keyboard shortcuts	F		marta.stojanovic	Thu 19 of Feb., 2009 22:29 GMT
	Flexible text granularity	F		marta.stojanovic	Thu 19 of Feb., 2009 22:29 GMT
	Translate/manage links dynamically	F		marta.stojanovic	Mon 02 of Mar., 2009 17:19 GMT

Related

http://dev.tikiwiki.org/i18n

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