«ArabeyesTodo»: الفرق بين المراجعتين

نسخة 15:52، 18 نوفمبر 2006

This a list of projects and TODO's that are global to the Arabeyes Project as a whole. These projects are considered important stepping stones to fulfill the Arabeyes' main goals. Please let us know which areas are of interest to you (to work on) and/or if you have further suggestions that ought to be included.

Technical/Code Issues:

Arabbix

• Need a release
• Need better/more encompassing documentation on process to involve others
• Need more people involved to help the maintainer
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Free Fonts

• Need KACST to include the various changed from MohammedYousif (Quran)
• Need KACST to consider various changes,
  • Tashkeels/diacritics deminsions (kacstposter/kacstdecorative/kacst-qr)
  • Style setting in 'fonts.cache-===is wrong (should be Regular/Bold, etc)
  • Possibly consider extending coverage to include Farsi/Urdu/gaf
• Need a knowledgeable font designer to review Khotot project
• Involved:
  • was - YousefAlHarthi (KACST fonts)
  • is - NadimShaikli (khotot fonts)
  • is - HussainAlKameesh (can be of assistance)
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Printing (http://www.cups.org)

• Need to add utf8/bidi/shaping to lp/lpr/enscript for Arabic text printing
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Terminal Emulators

• Gnome-terminal: Need to include shaping
• Xterm: Need to include Bidi/shaping (already has utf-8 support)

(www.wholehog.fsnet.co.uk/robert/xterm)

• rxvt: Need to look into adding utf-8/Bidi/shaping support
• PuTTY: Need to add remaining Arabic support
• Mlterm: Solve bidi on the command-line BIG issues - shell related
• Need an overall spec on how bidi/control-characters are to be

handled within a terminal emulator (cursor movement, etc)

• Involved:
  • was - KamalDalal (PuTTY)
  • was - NadimShaikli (mlterm)
  • is - AhmadKhalifa (PuTTY)
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Terminal Libraries

• Slang  : Add Bidi/Shaping to S-Lang library (www.s-lang.org)
• Ncurses: Add Bidi/Shaping to Ncurses library

(www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/ncurses.html)

• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Man pages in Arabic

• 'man' don't seem to work in Arabic, need to investigate what's needed

UPDATE: this is related to 'groff' not 'man', we need proper unicode support in 'groff' (http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2005/December/msg00004.html)

• Can Arabic man pages be viewed in a browser?

(http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2004/May/msg00231.html) UPDATE: this is possible with 'man2html'

• Also: http://archives.mandrakelinux.com/cooker-i18n/2004-08/msg00116.php
• When viewing manpage is possible in Arabic, we'll need to start translating them.

UPDATE: the project started here http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Manpages

• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Fribidi library

• Need inclusion of shaping into library

UPDATE : FriBidi now support shapping (in CVS), we need someone to see what is missing for a release and help in this

• Invovled:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Behdad already adds shapping support, but still in the CVS and not released yet

Islamic Applications/Libraries (ITL)

• Need code review and authentication of algorithms
• Need Umm-Alqura algorithm/details
• Complete a simple perl-GUI for 'itools'
• Complete a fancy GUI
• Involved:
  • was - AhmadTwaijry (GUI)
  • is - NadimShaikli
  • is - ThamerMahmoud
• Status/Plan:
• Some outdated GUI screenshots,
• 
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• Need help on all above items

Quran Datafiles

• Need an authority to verify data files' content and correctness
• Involved:
  • was - AhmadTwaijry (seeking help in .sa)
  • is - NadimShaikli
  • is - MohammedYousif
• Status/Plan:
• All contacted groups have not responded, NEED HELP

Missing Quran characters/Glyphs from Unicode's lists

• Proposal written, but not submitted
• Need an Arabic authority to review our proposal to add new characters
• Need a solution that will work regardless of font technology
• Involved:
  • is - MohammedYousif
  • is - NadimShaikli
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Duali (the Arabic spellchecker)

• Need Duali to be ported to C
• Need Duali to be included and embraced by OpenOffice
• Involved:
  • is - MohammedElzubeir
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Emacs

• Need to verify bidi inclusion into emacs' main tree
• The inclusion was supposed to have started, but no one is keeping track
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

AbiWord

• Contact Tomas Frydrych <tomas frydrych - uklinux net>
• Primitive Arabic support exists and currently bidi is done via fribidi
• Read supplemental file for more details
• Involved:
• was - MohammedSameer
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

BiCon

• Do enough distro's know of the existance of this console tool ?
• Need to push its inclusion for better distro setup support
• Any functionality and/or build issues ?
• Involved:
• was - MohammedElzubeir
• was - SamyAlBahra
• is - MuhammadAlkarouri
• Status/Plan:
• Need help on all above items

Wine (http://www.winehq.org)

• Need shaping/Bidi
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

QT bugs/issues

• Need to verify complete Arabic functionality
• Involved:
• is - YoucefRahal
• Status/Plan:
• All known bugs (and suggestions) have been reported to Trolltech

(complete list on https://www.arabeyes.org/QtBugs)

• Where is Trolltech with bugs/suggestions ?

Cygwin (http://www.cygwin.com)

• Need Arabic support compiled/included (fonts, applications, etc)
• Need 'mlterm' included among others
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

WeirdX (http://www.jcraft.com/weirdx)

• It's a Java X-server - login to linux from any host via browser
• Need to verify that Arabic is visible/usable under weirdx
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

LaTeX2HTML

• Add Arabic language (requires little Perl knowledge)
• Create a 'style' file like one of the packages in latex2html/styles/
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

WinSCP (http://winscp.sf.net)

• Add Arabic support (UTF-8, Bidi)
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan
• Someone needs to look into its current status and take ownership

Non-Code & i18n/Translation Issues:

OpenArabia.org

• Needs to include all other LUGs' news (convince 'em to use RSS)
• Need a list of skilled people who can make this a reality
• Need a proper admin for this portal
• Involved:
• was - AhmadTwaijry
• is - NadimShaikli
• is - AbdulazizAlarfaj
• Status:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Arabic wordlist

• Need a complete list of Arabic words for Arabic-to-English dictionary
• Involved:
• was - AhmadTwaijry
• was - ArafatMohamed
• is - AbdulazizAlarfaj
• Status/Plan:
• Need a mechanism for how these words will be listed (eg. by root?)

Arabic translation of Arabeyes.org site

• Need someone to compelete the translation of Arabeyes' site
• Involved:
• was - AhmadTwaijry
• was - ArafatMohamed
• is - AbdulazizAlarfaj
• Status/Plan:
• Plone interface translation complete
• Awaiting deployment of Plone
• Need mysql table changes to hold AR translations for static content
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

WVware (Word Clone)

• Need Bidi/Shaping
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Content Management System (CMS) Arabization

• CMS's like phpnuke/postnuke/xoops/etc use CP-1256 and NOT UTF-8
• Need to instruct module owners to NOT use CP-1256 and use UTF-8 instead

- This is very important as more and more people opt to use CMS - UTF-8 should be the default option at a min - Current implementations don't even allow one to use UTF-8 Arabic

• Need to stress the importance of UTF-8 esp. for open source projects
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Mutt

• Is localization possible/needed ?
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

LingoTeach (http://www.lingoteach.org)

• Language teaching program

(Translate lessons, localize application and add vocal recordings)

• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Children Games

• Add Arabic to Ktouch (typing tutor)
• Finish translation and localization of GCompris
• Find a list of viable games to include
• Need programs to teach kids Arabic
• Involved:
• was - IsamBayazidi
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Various Issue/Needs:

Registration as a non-profit organization

• Need to select a country
• Need to get the list of people who can help
• Anything else that is involved
• Involved:
• is - ArafatMedini
• Status/Plan:
• Final choice for a country rested on Germany
• ArafatMedini and several other people in Germany offered to help
• ArafatMedini plans to be seriously involved in this issue
• This item needs a bit of follow-up

ACE

• Need another impartial organization to take it over
• OpenArabia.org (OAO) is slated for this task, but we need OAO functional
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• EgLug emerged as a possible choice
• This item needs a bit of follow-up

Shirts

• Need a means to print and distribute T-shirts with Arabeyes' logo
• Involved:
• was - SamyAlBahra (created a nice design)
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into cost and what is required

CD-distribution

• Need a means to print and distribute Arabbix CDs
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into cost and what is required

Awareness -- UTF-8

• Find all applications that utilize UTF-8 to add bidi/shaping
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Someone needs to look into this and report back (take ownership)

Awareness -- Window Managers

• Instruct all window managers about the inclusion of bidi/shaping
• Compile list of all window managers, classify based on lib dependency
• Systematically query Qt and Gtk based ones initially

Awareness -- Documentation

• Generate a list of documents/resources (FAQ/links)

(a means to educate people on various Arabic issues - general)

• Generate a step-by-step document on translation (kbabel, etc)
• Come up with means to create more technically heavy-weight people
• Involved:
• is - AbdulazizAlarfaj (translation document)
• Status/Plan:
• List of documents available
• Translation document available, but needs overhaul

People

• Find and retain a lawyer
• Find and retain 2-3 artists
• Find and retain a Public-Relations (PR) coordinator
• Find and retain "chimers" (peer pressure people "yeah, want/include it")
• Involved:
• NONE
• Status/Plan:
• Currently have 2 artists. No solid contribution as of yet