NetBeans IDE 5.0 localization project

How To Localize

Overview

HOW-TO

Development Build

Development build can be downloaded from the download page, currently only ja, zh and pt-BR are available.

1. Go to Development Downloads page
2. Select "5.0" and "Daily", click "Continue" button
3. Click "download" link for the latest "IDE"

Translation Status

• 5.0 translation status page will be updated after each new build.

Translation Validation

Please check the validation page to find errors/warnings in your localized .properties files.

• 5.0 translation validation page will be updated everyday for checking localized .properties.

Word Count

• 5.0 word count is available.

Translation Scope

We will define the translation scope per language, which may depend on the activity of contributors. There are four different areas listed below. The Core (Minimum) consists of core/, openide/, libs, projects, ide/ and autoupdate/, which are the minimum requirement for localized NetBeans.

• Core (Minimum) - core part of NetBeans
  .properties files and .html files (except javahelp) under the following directories. core, openide, autoupdate, libs and projects are being used in NetBeans Platform. so we would like to consider them as the Minimum (we used Core) requirement for translation.
  • core/
  • openide/
  • ide/
  • autoupdate/
  • libs/
  • projects/

• Extra - extra modules other than Core
  for example, j2ee/
  You can pick up your favorite modules (directories).

• JavaHelp - online documentation
  JavaHelp sources
  
  • apisupport/project/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/apisupport/project/docs
  • db/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/db/docs
  • db/model/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/dbschema/docs
  • j2ee/platform/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/j2ee/platform/docs
  • javacvs/cvsmodule/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/versioning/system/cvss/docs
  • monitor/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/web/monitor/docs
  • serverplugins/sun/appsrv81/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/j2ee/sun/ide/docs
  • tomcatint/tomcat5/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/tomcat5/docs
  • usersguide/javahelp/org/netbeans/modules/usersguide/

• Web Doc
  release documents, which will be on the web too
  • ide/welcome/release/docs/*.html

l10n-kit which contains English sources are available per this translation scope. Check Translation Overview for NetBeans IDE 5.0.

Basic rules for check-in

These are some minimum rules to facilitate working together in the same place. Be careful when touching build.xml. Please get confirmation from Release Engineering. Sometimes an invalid change to build.xml will break the nightly build.

• use release50 branch
  Use release50 branch for 5.0 translation

• Do not touch other language files
  Please maintain your own translation files and do not touch other localized files.

• Do not commit any change for build.xml
  If you have question and request for build.xml, please send the request to NetBeans RE team (nb-re@Sun.COM) and Cc-ing dev@translatedfiles.netbeans.org.
  This file is very critical, so let's ask permission from the Release Engineering team first.

Communication

• Email to team alias - dev@translatedfiles.netbeans.org
  Question and comments should be sent to team alias.