I’m Ricardo Palomares, from es-ES team, and I currently maintain MozillaTranslator, a Java app. originally developed by Henrik Lynggaard. I’m also trying to write a replacement also in Java, but I’m moving too slow with it.

I must say that I got somewhat annoyed by the fact that I only knew about that session the Saturday 23rd, once I was at FOSDEM. Not that I could have made it to the presentation, since I arrived to Brussels late afternoon Friday, but I feel that this type of things should be mentioned in mozilla.dev.l10n newsgroup/mailing list. I’ve subscribed now to this blog RSS, but the point is that we shouldn’t be expected to be following all blogs that may be interesting to Mozilla L10n plus newsgroups plus bugzilla address watchs plus our own internal project communication resources, since then we will spend more time trying to grab useful info that doing the actual work in L10n.

Not that the full info should be published in the blog and then copied to the newsgroup, but IMHO a mention should be done in the ng when someone publish something related to L10n so people interested can at least get aware of it.

As I’ve commented several times before, I’m strongly biased against web-based tools. I find them to be slower in response times, less convenient to use for typing, and somewhat dangerous because people approach to them too lightly, which may easily lead to lower quality of translations. This is why I think in terms of real desktop applications, witch “batch” check-out/commit processes.

Ricardo

-seth