NB70L10nScope
NetBeans 7.0 Localization Scope
Product Features
- Details to be found under NB 7.0 Planning Page and Feature Freeze Milestone page.
L10n Deliverables
NB 7.0 is delivered in four Oracle-supported languages: Japanese, Simplified Chinese, Brazilian Portuguese and Russian.
Component | Japanese | Simplified Chinese | Brazilian Portuguese | Russian | Release |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
UI/Msg | yes | yes | yes | yes | ML FCS |
OLH | no | no | no | no | n/a |
Release Docs | yes | yes | yes | yes | ML FCS |
Web Docs | yes | yes | yes | yes | nb.org from Eng FCS + 60 days |
Update Center Modules | no | no | no | no | n/a |
DVD | yes | yes | yes | docs only | English only DVD + 30 days |
Patches | no | no | no | no | n/a |
Bundles | yes | yes | yes | no | monthly |
Other Languages
Community contribution and simultaneous shipping of Platform + JavaSE modules + Download pages translation are intended. Current candidates or communities ready to participate are:
Arabic, Catalan, Czech, French, German, Galician, Italian, Korean, Polish, Romanian, and Spanish.
To see the scope of translations and a full list of languages, go to the Community Translation Status page.
If your willing to participate and see your language listed here, you can always drop us an email @ dev@nblocalization.netbeans.org. Just precise which language you'd like to participate to and someone on the mailing list will follow-up!
Release Vehicles
- Bits release on netbeans.org, zh-CN.nb.org, China server
- NB ML Starter Kit DVD
- Localized docs on netbeans.org, developer.sun.ru, zh-CN.nb.org, ja.nb.org
- Other possible distros (JDK, Java EE, MySQL bundles)
Roles and Responsibilities
The Globalization team is responsible for:
- Localization engineering tasks, including finalizing l10n kits for translation, workspace management for localized content, pre- and post-processing tasks for workflow and translation memory processing, file encoding conversions, publishing webdocs to nb.org and other sites, and other file manipulation tasks
- Translation of product and webcontent related to the product release
- Localization testing and reporting
- Bug filing and l10n bug fixing
- Project management and project documentation, vendor management, community consulting
Release Milestones
Milestone | Timeframe |
---|---|
7.0 ML Beta | 7.0 English Beta |
7.0 ML FCS | 7.0 English FCS |
L10n web docs and content GO LIVE | Staggered release 30-60 days after English FCS |
NB ML Starter Kit DVD [tbc] | Final l10n docs GO LIVE + 15 days [tbc] |