Text prediction writeup

[Michael Bauer]

Hiya

We finally managed to get the Gaelic/Irish files for word prediction
built for Mozilla OS. I'd like to do a brief writeup of the process
because at the moment there seems to be zilch (did a quick one at the
bottom of the Basque bug
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1007547) but I'm unsure
where to put it. I was thinking MDN possbly, maybe here
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Localization

But there might be better places that I haven't thought about. Thoughts
anyone?

Michael

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[Tim Chien (MozTW)]

Maybe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia

Specifically, sub-section of
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Customizing_the_keyboard
?

(I was the origin author of that page and I am now a co-owner of
keyboard app; do contact me if you need help on that -- for example, I
have just realized the page was left unattended for technical review
:-/)

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[Michael Bauer]

Hi Tim

Excellent. I have added my tuppence at the bottom, just above Discussion
and QA and called it "New locales from the localizers perspective". It
may seem a bit wordy to a developer but I had to find most of this the
hard way and given the number of locales we have with mainly
non-developer localizers, I'm hopeful this will be helpful.
https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Customizing_the_keyboard#New_locales_from_the_localizers_perspective

Can't help you with the technical review I'm afraid :/

Cheers!

Michael

17/08/2014 03:27, sgrìobh Tim Chien (MozTW):

> Maybe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia
>
> Specifically, sub-section of
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Customizing_the_keyboard
> ?
>
> (I was the origin author of that page and I am now a co-owner of
> keyboard app; do contact me if you need help on that -- for example, I
> have just realized the page was left unattended for technical review
> :-/)
>

[Tim Chien (MozTW)]

Excellent! Thank you.

I made three tiny changes

- Changes some <code> to <pre> so code block example can be readable.
- Point the web-based keyboard demo page to the upstream repo here:
https://github.com/timdream/gaia-keyboard-demo as online tool does not
offer testing of pending layouts, and one should pull that repo and
test locally.
- Make a strong note on the importance of flagging a person for review
when submitting patches.

I think the sections need to be rearranged (since it currently talking
about the same thing twice and didn't make the intention clear on
*creating* a layout or build a custom build to include particular
layout), but I would have to ask someone else for help on that.

On Sun, Aug 17, 2014 at 10:32 PM, Michael Bauer <fi...@akerbeltz.org> wrote:
> Hi Tim
>
> Excellent. I have added my tuppence at the bottom, just above Discussion and
> QA and called it "New locales from the localizers perspective". It may seem
> a bit wordy to a developer but I had to find most of this the hard way and
> given the number of locales we have with mainly non-developer localizers,
> I'm hopeful this will be helpful.
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Customizing_the_keyboard#New_locales_from_the_localizers_perspective
>
> Can't help you with the technical review I'm afraid :/
>
> Cheers!
>
> Michael
>
> 17/08/2014 03:27, sgrìobh Tim Chien (MozTW):
>
> Maybe https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia
>
> Specifically, sub-section of
> https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Firefox_OS/Developing_Gaia/Customizing_the_keyboard
> ?
>
> (I was the origin author of that page and I am now a co-owner of
> keyboard app; do contact me if you need help on that -- for example, I
> have just realized the page was left unattended for technical review
> :-/)
>
> --

> Akerbeltz

>
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[Michael Bauer]

17/08/2014 15:51, sgrìobh Tim Chien (MozTW):
> Excellent! Thank you.
You're very welcome

>
> I made three tiny changes
>
> - Changes some <code> to <pre> so code block example can be readable.

ok

> - Point the web-based keyboard demo page to the upstream repo here:
> https://github.com/timdream/gaia-keyboard-demo as online tool does not
> offer testing of pending layouts, and one should pull that repo and
> test locally.

ok

> - Make a strong note on the importance of flagging a person for review
> when submitting patches.

good point

> I think the sections need to be rearranged (since it currently talking
> about the same thing twice and didn't make the intention clear on
> *creating* a layout or build a custom build to include particular
> layout), but I would have to ask someone else for help on that.

I wasn't sure about that. The existing content did not make much sense
to me but I assumed there was a reason for it being there in that
format. Since my main aim was to provide a step-by-step for less
technical people, I just added it at the bottom but if you want to ask
someone to integrate that, that's fine with me as long as it remains
readable for less technical people.

As there are the two angles i.e. developers working on the
keyboard/prediction infrastructure and developers working on actual
keyboards/lexicons, perhaps having the two sections isn't a bad thing,
even if it involves some duplication? Web estate isn't that expensive :)

Michael