User:Ahmed Siam/GSoC2023Proposal

Google Summer of Code 2023 proposal draft

Contact

• Name: Ahmed Siam
• Email: aahs.coder@gmail.com
• IRC: AhmedSiam
• GitHub: https://github.com/ahmedsiam0
• Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ahmedasiam
• Timezone: UTC+2

Background

• I am a freshman computer science student at Ain Shams University in Egypt.
• Native Language: Arabic
• Second Language: English

Skills

• C++
• Linux Basics
• Git

Why am i interested in Apertium?

• I found that Apertium is a suitable place to learn about how open source projects operate and how can i take part in.
• It has an interesting and active community.

Proposal: Internationalization of Apertium Tools

Apertium tools are currently hard-coded as english-only.

This project aims to internationalize them so that they can be localized easily to other languages.

Tools that will be internationalized:-

• https://github.com/apertium/lttoolbox
• https://github.com/apertium/apertium
• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-lex-tools
• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-separable
• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-recursive
• https://github.com/apertium/apertium-anaphora
• https://github.com/apertium/lexd

Each error and warning message will have a wiki page and unique ID for easy search online.

The ID format will be something like this: AP000000

Note:

• Internationalization(i18n) and Localization(l10n) are not the same thing.
• In summary, i18n is related to programming while l10n is related to translation.
• for more details about this, take a look at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internationalization_and_localization.

Why should Google and Apertium sponser it?

• The internationalization of the tools makes it easier for non-english users to use it.

how and who it will benefit in society?

• It will make the use of Apertium tools easier for non-english users.

Coding Challenge

• I have done the coding challenge related to this project and its code can be found here.
  • It is a simple program that prints "Hello World" in the default language of your computer (it supports English, Spanish and Danish).
  • It uses ICU message format for i18n and .txt resource bundle files for storing locales data.
  • It uses Autotools for build automation.

Previous Contributions

• Add option to set compound_max_elements in lt-proc (merged): https://github.com/apertium/lttoolbox/pull/175
• Write and add a minimal gettext equivalent to the lttoolbox repo (not merged): https://github.com/apertium/lttoolbox/pull/174
• Fix broken links in lexd README file (merged): https://github.com/apertium/lexd/pull/26

Work Plan

Time Period	Goal	Deliverable
Community Bonding Period May 4-28	Discuss and define more details about the project and initialize it.
May 29 - June 26	Internationalize lttoolbox	PR on lttoolbox repository
June 27 - July 10	Internationalize apertium	PR on apertium repository
midterm evaluation	lttoolbox and apertium internationalized
July 11 - 24	Internationalize remaining tools	PRs on apertium-separable, apertium-anaphora, apertium-recursive, lexd, and apertium-lex-tools
July 25 - August 21	Unknown
final evaluation	Project done

Time Commitments

• I will have final exams in June so i will assign 10 hours a week for the project until i finish my exams.
• I don't have time commitments in the coding period after final exams.