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Meeting Details

• 9:00 AM Mountain View Time (UTC -7)
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 206 (US/INTL)
• irc.mozilla.org #l10n-drivers for back channel
• (notetaker: gandalf)

Attendees

axel, gandalf, sethb, clouserw, stas, timr, pascalc

Meeting Notes

Firefox / Fennec updates

• Fennec is late.
  • All depends on when the product will be ready
  • Fennec is going to be shipped as multi-locale build
  • They're working on UI for locale-switching, but the search, dictionaries are remaining problems
  • Axel would like to have a command-line PHP script that converts product-details to .properties format. Pascal stepped (almost voluntarily) in.
• Fx 3.6 - Axel is surprised that Fx3.6 is going to be shipped too soon
  • around week till beta1 code-freeze
  • about:support, personas and plugins being the big hairy-scary things for l10n.
  • about:support is a majority of 30 strings most locales are currently missing.
  • possible mass-mail tomorrow
  • Opt-in thread tonight

Web L10n

• Pascal is working on Fennec pages
• Thundebird for early november

AMO

• code-freeze tomorrow, and l10n-freeze tomorrow
• a lot of pages - like 10 pages of text
• not critical to be localized, but people tend to translate it all anyway :)
• 2 weeks between code-freeze and launch

Productization and de-betaing

•  ???
• New litmus involvement for localizers.
• Stas is talking with Clint about it.
• Moving forward with productization dashboard

Tools

QA

• Rewriting litmus to make it faster, user-friendly and powerful