[Phpgroupware-docteam] Second time

[BeerBong]

Hello again, (I didn't recieve and answer yet)
I have these questions

1. What is the best way to translate?
I read it (http://www.phpgroupware.org/cvsdemo/phpgwapi/doc/lang_files.txt),
but what the best way now ?
-  Use lang.sql file and place russian variants to it,
-  create additional ru_translate.sql or lang_ru.sql
-  Where this file should be located ?  (projects - in doc, bookkeeping -
setup, chat - root)
2. What I can do with UTF problems described below?
   It is very important for me now.
3. Mystic
   I worked with projects module yesterday and add some Activities, today I
can't find Activities link (although my activities present in Add project
page)
   Projects    Jobs    Delivery    Billing    Statistics    Archive
   Activities was a first link yesterday...
   What could happen ? And silly question - what asterix after keywords on
page means ?
4. And big problem...
There a big groupware open source project - TUTOS. (www.tutos.org) More
features for project managament - more of them are mandatory for me now. But
project was written as embed script into HTML, as result - it cannot be
scaled and too many HTML bugs, awesome... You project well thought-out and
haven't such problems.

What we need - you have projects module, well, but I didn't find how I (team
manager) can see who is under heavy load now, and who is can be responsible
for the next task (job of a project).
At the same time, you have ToDo module, with acceptable level of
visualization of load of single person.
What can do:
1. Add to projects module ability to see job load of user_group members
(kinda ToDo but for all members in one group, may be it is better to realize
via Global Categories, but we'll need to tie users with global categorie and
I think it will be the same as existing  user_group)
2. Add to ToDo load module following feature - on To Do page, user will see
not only own jobs, but jobs assigned to him from projects module
3. When new job assigned to user, does he receive a notification by letter ?

We can take care about these canges, but these two modules written by
different people, and all changes should be discussed with many people. As
author of some programs, I can see that I better change code myself than
allow others to modify core of it. Any comments ?

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Sergey "BeerBong" Polyakov
chief of WebZavod (http://www.webzavod.ru)

----- Original Message -----
From: "BeerBong" <address@hidden>
To: <address@hidden>
Sent: Tuesday, December 04, 2001 5:19 PM
Subject: Trans: (russian)


> Hello there!
>
> I am chief of leading Russian Web Studio - http://www.webzavod.ru (Оne of
> our international works - http://musica.mustdie.ru)
> We want to translate common and project managment specific applications
for
> russian language.
> My employees know english, but we want to contribute to Open Society
> something own.
> BTW, there is serious bug (or feature), which doesnt allow russians to use
> your system:
>
> all pages are recieved in ISO-8859-1 and all russian text I entered (First
> Name, Project name etc) automatically decode to UTF and every symbol takes
7
> byte in database (&#1234;), as field for family - 50 chars, family max
> size - 7 symbols! It is gruesome.
>
> I didnt work with UTF yet, all our applications use Russian CP1251
> codepage - is it possible use it for your project? I don't want store in
> database this (&#1234;) abracadabra.
>
> My programmers and myself has a good expirience in:
> - mod_perl (http://perl.apache.org)
> - template-toolkit (http://www.template-toolkit.org) - Wonderful template
> system
> - Mysql
> - Oracle
> We know expireware (IMHO) technologies for WEB (ISAPI, Delphi, ASP),
> don't know PHP (We choosed mod_perl+Template-Toolkit because it is the
most
> clean solution for separating code and design at that time and for the
best
> integrating in Apache internals)
> But your project is well thought-out, and I think we will feel PHP and can
> contribute our additions and may be patches and suggestions.
>
> Do you have suggestions about translating and how we can fix/correct/avoid
> problem with coding >128 letters to &#1234; for starting use your project
?
>  ---
> Sergey "BeerBong" Polyakov
> chief of WebZavod (http://www.webzavod.ru)
>
>