Narro: An l10n tool
January 23rd, 2008 by seth bindernagel
Back on the topic of localization tools, I scheduled a call today with a Rumanian localizer named Alexandru Szasz to learn more about his recent work on a tool that he calls Narro. I wanted to learn what he has created and to see if Mozilla can provide any support to him. There are quite a few tools out there, and we want to find the ones to support that will improve the Mozilla process. He explained his software and we talked more about our initiative to fund tool development through the Community Giving/Empowerment program.
Afterward, he read the evaluation criteria from my last post and blogged about it. Here are his answers to our criteria.
What do you think? Can you provide any helpful comments to Alexandru?
We’ve received about four or five ideas for tools development. Some are very formal proposals and others are great projects/ideas that may or may not need our help. As we get closer and closer, I’ll post these proposals/ideas (as long as I get approval from the tool proposers), so you can read them and see what we are considering.
Hi,
I’ve gone over my head and translated the application in english. There’s also a new project set up for anyone to contribute without an account. Go to http://lab.maimult.ro/qdrupal/narro_project_list.php and choose “Firefox 3 (for Narro tests)”. Please keep it clean and delete the suggestions you add after you test it.
Looks promising, actually resembles BebelZilla project a bit. Putting under MoCo wings and including to, say MLO would be great. I’m ready to participate in such a project if it goes live.
Well it’s more advanced than babelzilla and takes a different approach using translation one by one, not many at once as babelzilla does.
I’ve signed up for a project on mozdev, once it’s up there I’d accept any contribution to it.