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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

Meeting Notes

pontoon

• gandalf leading discussions about the future of pontoon
• pootle guys liked pontoon a lot, they think it would be a good front-end to pootle/verbatim
• localizers expressed interest in using pootle to localize SUMO

fx 4 beta program

• no progress since b1 as far as the app goes
• Pike doesn't think we can make b2 with l10n; b3?
• bugs that are blocking in Pike's opinion haven't been triaged yet
• beta1 shipped off of mozilla-central
  • no clear idea on when we should branch
  • l10n merge needs to be turned on
  • what is our policy about l10n merge?
    • for how long do we turn it on?
    • do we need a bottom threshold below which we don't ship a merged build?

partial-platform de-beta

• fix to product-details required
• impact on download experience:
  • all.html - listed twice? all.html#or breaks then
  • landing page - there are 3 scenarios; we'd need to choose between them depending on the platform of the visiting user
    • final builds available
    • beta builds available
    • no builds available
• we could stop shipping the mac builds altogether.

new locales on 3.6/4

• work in parallel will be confusing, esp. that 4 is close

Pike

• vacation
• hot in Berlin, little to none brain activity
• catching up on ecosystem

Talking points: summit catchup, beta program

Stas

• still recovering from the summit
  • good feedback about the todo app during the science fair
• talked to Ani [ml] and Manoj [or] about debeta
• pontoon planning

Talking points: partial-platform de-beta?

clouserw

gandalf

• Whistler
• L20n XUL patch progress (carefully removing DTD phase)
• Pontoon planning with ozten/fred/seth/stas/walter/dwayne
• L20n performance testing plan with Taras initialized
• Jetpack L10n planning for Q3/Q4 with Myk

Talking point: L10n of Firefox 4 beta - call to arms?

sethb

• Post-Summit Mortem
• In London, set up mobile phone number, home internet, and visited a "hotelling" spot called "The Hub" as a possible "office" where I can work.

Pascal

• prepared Fx4beta firstrun page for l10n (including rtl support)
• added video subtitling system for beta pages
• kept cleaning up mozilla.com repository, now down to 500GB (from 1.1GB 2 weeks ago)
• fx 2/3/3.5 in-product pages all merged to 3 folders now
• created an oldversion folder with a call to upgrade to the latest version, used as the single whatsnew page for Fx versions no longer supported
• fixed localized all-beta pages to handle a fallback to en-US download box since this is the first time we have an en-US only beta release

Kadir

• Got a lot of feedback on our KB from localizers during the summit, which will be reflected in the new SUMO version. New mockups here
• We will start end user support with Firefox Beta 3