Archive for 'L10n' Category
Enter Bug: Mozilla Localizations
6 December 2007Thanks to reed and bug 353480, the Mozilla Localizations component on Bugzilla moved from “Client Support” over to the “Client Software” category, and is now available on the main enter_bug.cgi page. This should make it much easier for international testers to find their way to file bugs on our localizations, and is yet another small [...]
Localizations for Firefox 3 Beta 1
30 October 2007I posted to mozilla.dev.l10n about how we’re going to ship localizations for Firefox 3 Beta 1, aka M9. In a very executive summary,
opt in — to do so, follow up on the post on m.d.l10n
go green
don’t mess up search etc
help testing
Find the full posting on news.m.o or google groups. Questions, opt-ins and follow-ups should all [...]
Firefox 2 glossary
30 October 2007As I have been blogging before, I try to create a glossary for Firefox 2. I’m leaving out all the gory details, but it’s been a hard fight between me trying to be clever and being dumb. I’m still not happy with the code that creates the data, but still, I think this iteration generates [...]
Localization is hard, the math way
17 October 2007I thought I share some statistics about our localizable strings. I’m currently trying to create a tool that would help localizers to find terms or phrases that show up in Firefox often. Roughly, an automated way to do glossaries. So, the basic idea is to go through our localizable files, and search for phrases that [...]
tools don’t help
26 June 2007Localization tools are a pity. The Hebrew localizers switched from one tool to the other, and attached a patch to bug 373436, +1190/-818 lines for toolkit alone. Given that toolkit ‘only’ has some 2000 strings, that’s a pretty big diff.
I wrote a diff tool that ignores all the formatting and ordering, and oops. The [...]
… and windows l10n builds
14 June 2007Coop picked up bug 374197 and thus we’re having l10n windows builds on the trunk again. To quote the log,
ar…busted.
bg…busted.
ca…testfailed.
cs…testfailed.
da…busted.
de…busted.
el…busted.
en-GB…busted.
es-AR…busted.
es-ES…testfailed.
eu…busted.
fi…busted.
fr…success.
fy-NL…busted.
ga-IE…busted.
gu-IN…busted.
he…busted.
hu…busted.
hy-AM…busted.
it…busted.
ja…busted.
ja-JP-mac…busted.
ka…busted.
ko…busted.
ku…busted.
lt…busted.
mk…busted.
mn…testfailed.
nb-NO…testfailed.
nl…testfailed.
nn-NO…busted.
pa-IN…busted.
pl…success.
pt-BR…testfailed.
ro…busted.
ru…success.
sk…busted.
sl…busted.
sq…busted.
sv-SE…testfailed.
tr…busted.
zh-CN…busted.
zh-TW…busted.
The corresponding builds are on ftp.
New localizations to test
14 June 2007We have a few new localization teams putting a whole lot of effort in getting their languages up and running. For those, the l10n server is creating language packs right now, and as always, they can use as many eyes as possible.
The right welcome for Runa, Rajesh and Timothy is a Mozilla welcome, so pound [...]
Not just incubating
6 June 2007I have written about the incubator before, it’s a tool that should help localizations newly in CVS to work towards release. It’s based on buildbot, and I whacked it pretty hard recently.
The result can be seen on the l10n server again. What’s new?
Incubator is now L10n Trunk, I’m running my tools on all localizations working [...]
2.0.0.4 languages
5 June 2007There are a few changes in our language support that came with Firefox 2.0.0.4. We have officially released Afrikaans and Belarusian. Congratulations to both teams. If you know someone that should or could use those versions and doesn’t, please point them at the download page, as those links aren’t that easy to find otherwise.
We would [...]
The incubator
30 April 2007When working on new localizations of Firefox and Thunderbird, it’s pretty tricky to get all the tooling right and to distribute your work for testing. In addition, there’s no real build environment that tells me how far particular localizations are. That changed, enter the incubator. Incubator runs in buildbot for the most part, and calls [...]