http://blog.mozilla.com/axel Free your mind and your ass will follow. Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:02:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Armen just blogged about this, and as it's constantly mentioned around l10n, I wanted to add a bit more detail to l10n-merge. l10n-merge is originally an idea by our Japanese localizer dynamis. The current implementation used in the builds is by me, integrated as an option to compare-locales. There are spin-offs ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/11/06/ps-l10n-merge/ Good for the planet earth, I didn't print poster number 5. I've put it up on people.mozilla.org, hopefully that's serving it with a mime type that's full of love. Bad for planet mozilla, I did take a picture and here I'm blogging about it. Yes, I love the web so much, you ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/09/22/axel-loves-the-web/ As we're struggling with our string freezes for 1.9.2, I figured I'd put something up on planet for everyone to notice: String freezes are one only, and done with. No "I'll get that in the next milestone". First string freeze is the last. String freeze for mobile-browser and toolkit was last Friday. ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/09/09/string-freezes-on-1-9-2/ Just a quick side note, I'm hacking on a DTD mode for Bespin. The code is pretty ughly still, but the output is getting OK. It already supports marking up errors, to a similar extent that they're found in compare-locales these days. Better parsing for the actual values is a bigger ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/08/20/hacking-dtds-into-bespin/ I've uploaded a snapshot of a build in progress on my test display which gives a bit better insight on what's possible to show about a build based on the information that buildbot has, or a build database had. The important pieces here compared to tinderbox are: Builds in progress are ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/07/12/oh-my-eyes-but-good-still/ I've spent half of last week in Amsterdam joining the "Open Translation Tools 2009" unconference. It was a pretty interesting and diverse crowd to be with, and by far not as tool-author-only as it would sound like. Folks coming spread all over from sex-worker activists over global voices to translate.org.za ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/06/29/roundup-report-from-ott-09/ Our brave build folks have cut the tags on Firefox 3.5 RC 1, and I figured I give a little feedback on that from the l10n side. As RC 1 was based on new strings, we required each localization to sign-off on the status of their localization to be ready for ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/06/12/150273/ I've blogged previously on how to set up a staging environment to test the l10n build system, but I didn't go into any detail on how to actually do builds in that set up. That shall be fixed. I'm picking you up at the point where twistd get-pushes -n -t 1 -s ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/06/10/running-into-builds-just-testing/ 'nuff said? Not even remotely. We've had l10n builds as long as I'm working on l10n, actually, I got involved around the time when we started to do them upstream. They always were considerably better than each localizer doing their build at home on whatever (virus-infected) hardware they found, with help ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/06/05/got-l10n-builds/ I'm contemplating adding search in l10n to the dashboard, and I figured I'd put my thoughts out for lazyweb super-review. Things we might want to search for: Localized strings in a particular locale in all locales going into a particular app entity names in all of the above As with the rest of the dashboard, I'd favour a ... http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2009/06/02/searching-l10n/