Re: [libreoffice-l10n] [PROPOSAL] New project for dictionaries

Sgrìobh Dennis Roczek na leanas 25/04/2016 aig 15:33:
> If the maintainers are not responsive (or if the dictionary is
> abandoned), we actually cannot do anything as long as we have no new
> maintainer for a fork. If there is somebody willing to overtake the
> development, then forking of that particular dictionary is indeed a
> possibility.
A couple of extra thoughts from an active maintainer of a dictionary and 
the associated extensions.

In general, I'm interested in anything that brings together scattered 
resources and makes stuff more user friendly, be that end users or devs 
using it.

- there would have to be some sort of a locale-specific admin system for 
active maintainers joining. Crowdsourcing stuff works in big languages 
but if folk start submitting random stuff to a locale like Scottish 
Gaelic or playing with the affix file, that's a recipe for disaster.

- there are different ways in which people maintain their dictionaries. 
Some edit the text file directly, others build from corpora, in our 
case, we use scripts to build from a dictionary database, which 
automatically generates the .zip/.oxt/.xpi files. One would probably 
have to consider different entry points if ones were to successfully 
attract people from different projects because I would NOT want to have 
to start manually maintaining our file.

- one thing that hasn't been mooted yet would be making some provision 
for easily creating new dictionaries for new locales, something that has 
a loc-tech threshold.

Michael

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