L10n/HomePage/Status/2009-11-04

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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: sethb)

Attendees

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

Meeting Notes

Firefox / Fennec updates

• Do language packs we use violate the MPL?
  • Fundamental problem: there are files in our language pack that we consider to be under MPL but they don't have a license header.

Firefox

• Firefox making progress, many locales going green, opt-in thread is open
• Dashboard: a few bugs still there, but we can use it locally to Axel for sign-off
• 17 locales with over 100 untranslated strings

Fennec

• multi-locale code now works. match-os works, but still many bugs.
• l10n-merge works for fennec
• Axel working on getting single locale debs up and running
  • optimistic that it might not be as tricky as it sounds

Web L10n

• FxFy has started, Stas has taken ladled on the technical parts/problems of the Five Year site
  • Gettext is not registering the locales, but Stas has installed the entire website locally and debugged it
  • Lang Detection: taking first accept lang header and going with that, but not supporting languages that are 2 letters long - only "ab-CD", but not "ab"
    • Stas pointed people to this problem in the bug, but there are no fixes
    • Leave it right now and hope they fix it
    • Stas can explain how to do it
    • Or Stas can fix it, spending another few hours
  • We have 10 complete translations right now; we need
• Snippets for beta 1, Delphine helped there and we got a number of l
• Landing page for Thunderbird under way
• Fennec extra page request
• FR and WN pages were redesigned

AMO

• Not much on AMO and we missed code freeze. Aiming for tomorrow, next launch will be Nov 12. Less that 100 strings.
• Swahili issue

Productization

• No update, some updates on Fennec search bugs

Tools

• Verbatim
  • Moving into production
  • Would like to do more
• Sign-off App: call with IT about moving the Django site to production
  • IT Team is going to cover a lot of this

Testing

• Opening for testing help from Ml-QA for site. Pascal and Tim might work on it.
  • Plugin check page will require a lot of QA
• Raymond has a redirect check
• Sethb has been working with Ml-QA to get them files that they can inspect
• Shy Avni from Ml-QA sent a quote to do testing on all locales
  • We will probably take the next step to 15 locales
  • If there is a delta in the DTD files and how does that transfer to a change in dialogues
  • Target largest markets with smallest teams

Roundtable