Status of OpenOffice Project

[anmar oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Salam all:

I will be providing a weekly status update on arabeyes.org hosted 
OpenOffice project

http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=OpenOffice

BACKGROUND:

OpenOffice uses GSI format,a unique format localization format, for 
storing all their translation strings. This format is extremely 
difficult to translate since there are no automated translation tools. 
Therefore, people decided to convert this file to  PO type files for 
people to use tools such as Kbable or Gtranslator... etc on. 
Unfortunately, the generated PO files in cvs.arabeyes.org were non 
compliant and broke tools such as msgfmt.

STATUS:

1. Currently, all PO files in cvs.arabeyes.org are NON-po format 
compliant and should NOT be worked on at all.

2. New po files will be generated and placed in cvs.arabeyes.org once 
their integrity and compliance has been confirmed.

3. Help files will also be converted to a manageable format (not sure it 
will be po format) and placed in cvs.arabeyes.org

4. There are no active translators on this project given its lack of 
proper po files.

5. There are Arabic GUI (partial low quality localization) downloadable 
binaries of openoffice 1.1.1 from arabeyes download section:

http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=34866&package_id=120217

6. I will be contacting OpenOffice.org to try and place the Arabic GUI 
binaries on openoffice.org so people can download them from there directly.

I will be doing a fresh import of po compliant files once no later than 
July 1st 2004. I will inform the list of such activity the day it happens.

Please don't hesitate to send any questions or comments regarding this 
project to doc mailing list.

Please confine all your questions and discussions regarding this project 
to the doc mailing list.

Salam,

Anmar