Translate Toolkit 1.3.0 was released a few days ago. I was following along with trunk on my development box and I wanted to upgrade our alpha install to take advantage of the new features (namely, speed improvements) and the django framework. I attempted this tonight and it was not a pretty upgrade (or install, for [...]
Tagged Mozilla, VerbatimThis is the second update about add-ons’ statistics. Read part one. Statistics for both update pings and download counts have been updated beginning with February 1 through today, February 6th. Some notes: New statistics are stored in UTC and data processing happens shortly after the logs close. This means you can expect new data at [...]
Tagged add-ons, AMO, MozillaAccording to the high level plan, we’re currently on step 4. The Mozilla branch has been merged back into Pootle’s trunk and work on the branch has been discontinued. While writing code it became apparent that the framework Pootle was built on, jToolkit, had some shortcomings that were making it difficult to work with (not [...]
Tagged L10n, Mozilla, VerbatimAdd-on statistics have been intermittent for a couple months and are just recently getting the attention they need. Our current process is to count download statistics once per day and update ping statistics once per week (update pings are a sampling of the complete set). The reliability of the script generating these statistics has been [...]
Tagged add-ons, AMO, MozillaIt’s that time of year again. Severe weather warnings. Iced over bridges. Rolling power outages. Bad weather and worse drivers. Back in my day kids would be wishing for woolen mittens or firewood or hot potatoes they could stuff in their pockets. Nowadays all you hear about are these interactive video games and this music [...]
Tagged blah blah, MozillaThe Android platform comes with a great market available for browsing and downloading applications. Comments are easy to read, the permissions the application is requesting are clearly explained, and installing is a snap and happens in the background. Overall it’s a breeze to use. However, it’s got a large gap in it’s model that I [...]
Tagged AndroidBuilding off the success and fun that was had with the Firefox 3 T-Shirt Design Contest Mozilla has just launched a new Community Store. This store will let anyone upload shirt designs and print custom Mozilla shirts. If you’ve got good taste but designing isn’t up your alley you’re welcome to browse and customize the [...]
Tagged L10n, MozillaLooking over what I’ve written about Verbatim I realize that I’ve never talked about the overall plan on here. Even though we’re well into it at this point it doesn’t hurt to review. The original plan for Verbatim was to branch Pootle and continue to merge code between the branch and trunk as features were [...]
Tagged hindsight, L10n, Mozilla, VerbatimSQLite only supports a simple set of data types and the only one that really matters is “INTEGER PRIMARY KEY” so you can have it auto-increment. In fact, by default, I can declare the columns as anything I want and it doesn’t even throw a warning. sqlite> CREATE TABLE t2(c1 wtf, c2 yomama); sqlite> INSERT [...]
Tagged o rly, SQLiteI got the chance to try out the latest version of Shredder last night which recently celebrated it’s Alpha 3 release fixing an impressive number of bugs. Among the heap of bugs is our very own bug 262319; “sort by thread fails to resort on new message.” Two weeks shy of celebrating it’s fourth birthday [...]
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