Archive for 'Mozilla' Category
State of the Zwiebelfisch
2 October 2008For those that know that I’ve been somewhat offline lately, good news. I’m back online. I’m not going into the details, but ISPs in Germany and their handling of customers is, errr, let’s put it that way: not Firefox.
Other items of progress lately:
Seth covered Firefox 3.1 Beta 1. In my words, it went like I [...]
compare-locales 0.5 is out
25 July 2008I 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 an optional parameter to compare-locales, [...]
l10n buildbot update
24 July 2008I’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, which make l10n buildbots sooooo [...]
white russian
22 July 2008Where 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.
0.7.8 has scheduler [...]
l10n merge
3 July 2008I’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 entries. [...]
I’m old
12 June 2008While reverse-engineering make-jars.pl for bug 361583, I wondered why we did that weird locking in there.
Turned out that that was a fix I reviewed, for a bug I filed, 55174. 5 digit bugnumer, dating back to 2000. Those were the days of
make -j32 install
I bet picard got its plug pulled by now.
EUROPEADA 2008
2 June 2008Just wanted to point all of you into soccer and languages at the EUROPEADA 2008, that’s currently on. “The soccer tournament for the autochthonous, national minorities in Europe”, as they say themselves. There’s a video featuring some of the languages spoken on tagesschau.de (German).
L10n buildbots builds, the first quarter
14 April 2008The current setup of my l10n buildbot is running for 3 months now, or a quarter. I figured that’d be a good time to do some stats.
In these three months, the l10n server ran about 10600 builds, 10416 of those on trunk. Of the latter, 2330 builds succeeded, 8086 failed (fun number pun). The total [...]
# Localization note (netError.dtd): overrides
8 April 2008I thought I knew what we did for netError.xhtml and netError.dtd, but I didn’t, so here’s a little thing I learned today:
netError.xhtml loads 3 DTDs, one for xhtml, one is netError.dtd (global) and one is global.dtd (for RTLishness). Two boring ones, one interesting. Now, what we used to do is that browser would override the [...]
Wisdom of machine translation
1 April 2008At times machine translations achieve results that no human could word that well. This is what google language tools have to say about fixing stuff on short timelines:
We are using everybody’s frustrated, Sorry.
Found here.