implementors_meeting_notes_20110127

Attendees: Sven (ONTRAM), Gergely (Kilgray), Micah (Medtronic), Chase (Spartan)

Action Items

• Set up a separate mailing list for implementors (Sven)

Agenda

• Identify implementors
• Get status of each implementation
• Look for ways to coordinate
• Assess completeness of specifications
• Identify possible roadblocks
• Discuss how to enable real testing between systems (when we're ready)
• Discuss (proposed) LocWorld presentation

Implementors

• Kilgray: Gergely will be doing most of the design, assisted by Gabor. Implementation will be done by an external resource.
• Medtronic: Micah is implementing for the QA checker.
• Ontram: Timo is in charge
• GlobalSight: unknown
• XTM: unknown
• Reference implementation: Chase

Status of existing implementations

• Kilgray
  • Nothing written yet; goal to support 80% of xliff:doc by LocWorld.
  • Written in .NET
• Ontram
  • No proper development since TM-Europe demo
  • Had basic implementation of TIPP and xliff:doc, but unfinished.
  • Implemented for TM-Europe: basic TIPP, TM matches, notes, no terminology
  • Some areas may need updating to handle changes to the specs
• GS
  • For TM-Europe demo, used reference implementation for TIPP, hacked together very bad xliff:doc support.
  • All development was on a branch that has not been merged to trunk
• Medtronic
  • About 25% done with an xliff:doc implementation
  • Had basic TIPP 1.3 implementation working after TM-Europe, but nothing done for 1.4 yet
• XTM
  • Unknown, presumably not started

Efforts for LocWorld Paris

• What What tools are involved in the potential demo?
  • Ontram creates package
  • memoQ receives package
  • It would be nice to have a third tool, either XTM or Medtronic's QA tool (fallback)
• What features of the formats to show?
  • TIPP: xliff:doc, STS file, non-actionable refrence fle
  • xliff:doc
    • Possible: terms, notes, tm matches, qa hits.
    • priorities: TM, QA hits
    • Micah: we could tune priorities for each tool based on role. eg, not all systems would need to support QA hits for the demo.
    • We will not demo HTML preview.

Current status of specs

• TIPP
  • Working through 1.4 changes, preliminary draft sent to this; goal to have a real draft available during the first week of Feb.
  • Certain issues causing trouble: attributes, partial completion
    • Chase will bring these up on the list.
• Xlif:doc
  • Fairly solid but still needs implementation feedback

Issues that will make implementation more difficult

• Gergely: It would be nice to have docs in a more readable format -- something with a sidebar. Some discussion of how best to do this follows, but we end up tabling it.
• We decide to set up a separate mailing list. Sven will set it up.

Facilitating Testing

• memoQ: We will be able to download the memoQ builds when they have support.
• Ontram will set up a test server updated after every 2 week sprint.