Archive for July, 2008

compare-locales 0.5 is out

I just uploaded compare-locales 0.5 on pypi. To update your current install, use easy_install -U compare-locales This is the new version that can handle mozilla-central. There are two main features that were required to do so: Not get the directories to compare from client.mk. Drop the default path for l10n directories. The latter was already [...]

l10n buildbot update

I’ve updated the buildbot master and slaves running on the l10n server in the last few days. There have been a few reasons to do so: for Firefox 3.1 localization, I will need an updated compare-locales … and support on the dashboard there’s a new buildbot 0.7.8 around the corner … which offers scheduler properties, [...]

white russian

Where do we go, sings Marillion. In this context, rather, where do my thoughts go. l10n builds it is again. I’m currently working on porting my buildbot work over to buildbot 0.7.8, and prep it for mozilla-central. There are a few interesting points: 0.7.8 is not released yet. Finding bugs, fixing bugs, reporting back upstream. [...]

l10n merge

I’ve just pushed an implementation of l10n-merge to my tooling repository. It’s now actually just an option to compare-locales, and will do the weakest heuristic for now. Whenever compare-locales finds missing entries in an existing file, it will create a copy of that file in a staging directory for the merge, and append the missing [...]