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 [...]
Also tagged 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 [...]
Also 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 [...]
Also tagged hindsight, L10n, MozillaI 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 to [...]
Also tagged hindsight, Mozilla, open webLast week I connected Verbatim to the addons.mozilla.org SVN repository and with great help from #verbatim on IRC the blocker bugs have been ironed out. Special thanks to Rubén Martín (Nukeador) for making the maiden commit. The server is a bit more unstable than I’d like[1] but it’s usable. If you’d like to give it [...]
Also tagged L10n, MozillaVerbatim is the second project I’ve been the lead on recently where the requirements included people committing to SVN as themselves via the application. At first glance this means storing the authentication tokens of the user in plain text since we’ll need to pass them along to SVN whenever they commit. I wasn’t happy with [...]
Also tagged code, Mozilla, security, SVNAdding context to the .po files on AMO has been one of our challenges since we started localizing the site. The solution we decided to use, place holder strings, is non-standard and can be difficult to use for someone that is used to how gettext normally works. The localization tool we’ve decided to use for [...]
Also tagged AMO, L10n, MozillaWe’re planning several sessions at the upcoming Firefox summit including one specifically about AMO and L10n in which we hope to connect with localizers and start looking at some of the pain points of localizing AMO. With that in mind I’ve been collecting topic ideas and I’d like to hear any others you have. On [...]
Also tagged AMO, L10n, MozillaThe webdev and L10n-drivers teams have been talking about implementing an online localization tool for a few months and I’m happy to report that a plan is progressing. Seth Bindernagel has been giving updates about the planning process and the direction we’re going in. Our planning decisions will probably come up but my focus here [...]
Also tagged L10n, Mozilla