Archive for March, 2007

Ukrainian localization landed on trunk

I’d like to congratulate Tim Babych and the Ukrainian localization team for the initial landing of the Ukrainian localization of Firefox 2 on the trunk. If you know someone that would like to test it, there is a language pack in the landing bug, and a bugzilla component for feedback. The remaining steps for getting [...]

bug comment of the week

I’d like to award Phil Ringnalda with the L10n cookie of the week-award for hunting down the unused strings on the trunk. Not just that, but also the bug comment of the week, as far as I’m concerned, goes to the initial comment of bug 375485. If you ever wondered if there are low-hanging fruit [...]

l10n impact of new features

We had our first l10n impact meeting for Firefox 3, places was on. The meeting minutes are on the wiki, but there are few key points that are of more general interest. Firstly, the l10n impact meetings are held for the first time for Firefox 3, so we’re going forward with open eyes, ready to [...]

Feedback on “new localization” doc?

I’d like to get some wider feedback on the Create a new localization document on MDC. If you have comments, the talk page is probably the best place to put them. I added a link to L10n:Tools, so if you’d like to recommend a tool to work on localization for Mozilla apps, please head over [...]

Bugzilla dancing for l10n changes

We’re having a string change on a stable branch, and I’d like to give an overview of what I did how to make this less painful. Less is intentionally a relative measure, it’s still really very badly painful. The biggest part of this change was to actually settle on the intended outcome. How should locales [...]

Planet Mozilla L10N

I’d like to introduce you to Planet Mozilla L10N, a new resource that’s hosted on the l10n server. We’d like to syndicate blog posts by our localization community that are of interest to other localizers. We started off with a few feeds that are already on planet.mozilla.org, but really only a few of general interest [...]