You may remember that Mozilla made a grant to the team at Translate.org.za this past summer to help improve the translation tools that many of our localizers use to localize Firefox. One of the stipulations of that grant asked Translate to provide a mid-year report summarizing their progress. Many thanks to Friedel (the lead developer [...]
Posted in community, goals, l10n, planet on November 19th, 2008 3 Comments »
Amidst all that is going on in our day-to-day related to Mozilla localization, one of the most important things we can do is to think about the future. It’s about this time each quarter that I start to think about the goals for next quarter. What can we do better and where should we focus? [...]
54.
(It was 52…we got two late additions.)
That’s a big number.
Incredible thanks to all the localizers who participated. The teams are listed below where you’ll find a cut-and-paste of the patch that updates the shipped-locales bug filed by Axel. If you’re unfamiliar with the notation below, the “+” signs are locales we added from last time. [...]
Posted in community, l10n, marketing, planet on November 10th, 2008 8 Comments »
By clicking on this link, you’ll see the newly created download page for Firefox in Afrikaans.
This is an example of how the l10n-drivers team is trying hard to listen to our l10n community, and trying even harder to act upon the suggestions. We gathered feedback from a lot of locale leaders who thought we should [...]
This past week, Staś sent out some reminder emails to our localizers that the code freeze for FF 3.1 Beta 2 was Sunday at 11:59 PM Mountain View time. Our Georgian localizer Gia Shervashidze wrote back,
“Hi Staś, Great, thanks, sorry - there was/is really mad times in Georgia. Well… i translate all missing strings for [...]
Today, we filed the release tracker bug for the Vietnamese localization to participate in Firefox 3.1. If you look at that bug, you can see all the other bugs we have filed to get this localization ready for release (something I just blogged about).
The Vietnamese team has been incredibly motivated and responsive in working toward [...]
Posted in l10n, planet, web services on November 4th, 2008 1 Comment »
On Friday, October 24, the L10n-drivers team spent the evening preparing six new languages for launch with the release of Firefox 3.0.4. We then headed straight to Barcelona for the Mozilla EU camp that took place over the weekend. While I was there, a number of community members who are not localizers asked me what [...]