The AMO team met in Mountain View last week to develop a 2010 plan. We’ve been wanting to change some key areas of our development flow for a while but we needed to make sure time was budgeted in the overall AMO and Mozilla goals. As usual, the timeline will be tight, but [...]
Also tagged AMO, caching, CakePHP, Django, Git, L10n, Mozilla, PHP, Python, scalability, SVNA couple years ago I recommended using fake msgid’s in .po files and was, predictably, met with some argument. I suggested using this hack because there wasn’t a standard way to store context in a .po file yet.[1]
Since that time msgctxt has become a standard part of gettext and makes my substitution string [...]
Looking 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 [...]
I think any good manager will tell you that looking back over the choices you’ve made is an important step to improvement. In an effort to improve myself (and help anyone in a similar situation) I wrote this post with a few thoughts about branching an open source project (in this case branching Pootle [...]
Also tagged Mozilla, open web, Verbatim