NetBeans IDE 5.5 localization project

How to localize

Overview

Migration your 5.0 files to 5.5

HOW-TO

CVS Branch

Released Build

The following languages have been already released and can be downloaded from NetBeans 5.5 download page.

• Japanese
• Simplified Chinese
• Traditional Chinese
• Brazilian Portuguese
• German
• Spanish

Development Build

Development build can be downloaded from the download page.

• Download Localized NetBeans IDE and NetBeans Platform

Translation Status

Please check the status page about which files are already translated. This page is being generated automatically and updated everyday.

• 5.5 translation status page will be updated everyday.

Translation Validation

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

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

Word Count

• 5.5 word count is available.

Translation Scope

We will define the translation scope per language, which may depend on the activity of contributors. There are 4 area. Core (Minimum) are core/, openide/, libs, projects, ide/ and autoupdate/, which are minimum requirement for localized NetBeans.

• Core (Minimum) - core part of NetBeans
  .properties files and .html files (except javahelp) under following directories. core, openide, autoupdate, libs and projects are being used in NetBeans Platform. so we would like to consider them as 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 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 5.5.

Basic rules for check-in

These are some rules (but minimum) to work together in the same place. Be careful when you will touch build.xml, please send diffs to team alias to get confirmation from RE. Sometime invalid change of build.xml will break nightly build.

• use release55 branch
  Use release55 branch for 5.5 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 to RE team.

Testing

There are a lots of test specs for modules. You can see the test spec and some information from Test Specification page.

NetBeans 5.5 Test Specifications

Communication

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