L10n:Planning/2012-08-27

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News and Talking Points

• status of the preparation for the Warsaw work week
• status of the preparation for the MozCamp
• Update from chelsea about 2 week marketing campaigns
• Festival presence
  • Human API for l10n
  • l10n best practices
  • globalize and localize projects for webmaker/thimble
    • Pike, mathjazz
• [news] merge today/release tomorrow: Maithili de-beta, Acholi in-beta
• [news] input.mozilla.org localization - take 2
• Next steps to resolve Bug #787438 Repository creation policy for l10n repos in releases/l10n/mozilla-* https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=787438

Administrative

   Time and location: Monday, 8 AM PST, conf bridge 206 
   irc.mozilla.org #l10n-drivers for back-channel 
   Call-in details: https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Planning#Meeting_Details
   Previous meeting notes: https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Planning
   Attendees: Pike, arky, Jeff, stas, mathjazz, gandalf, milos,chofmann, chelsea

Action Items

put holiday dates here:

pascal aug 20-sept 4 milos? - probably sept 11-20, but still need to confirm. matjaz: sept 14-17 jeff - back to full time on last week in aug

Roundtable

add [done] to items completed last week; remove previous [done] items

arky

chofmann

gandalf

• experimenting with jison/pybyson but rather ruling it out. Pinged Zaach about it
• still bugs in pyast
• working with EU Border Guard on MozCamp coming from outside of Shengen

Jeff

• [in progress] Review all l10n pages in MDN and correct their page/paragraph/character formats.
• [was on hold last week due to the one above] Draft "Interpreting dashboards" doc on MDN.
• Begin session prep for mozcamp.
• Blog post on upcoming L10n sessions at MozCamp EU.
• Finalize plans for screencast initiative (L10n:Documentation/Screencasts)
• Follow up on new l10n icon & est. timeline for creating YouTube channel & Twitter feed.
• Continued support for ta and bn-BD teams.
• Work week prep.

• [done] Follow up on wiki page updates.
• [done] Discuss "catch-up" dates with ta, bn-BD, and follow up with Arky about vi.
• [done] Finish edit of L10n on Mercurial tutorial.
• [in progress] Review all l10n pages in MDN and correct their page/paragraph/character formats.
• [done] Made travel arrangements for LocWorld in Oct.
• [done] Joined ReMo!

Matjaž

• [done] Persona: get strings ready for the new train and communicate with localizers
• [done] Pontoon: Admin interface
• [done] Pontoon: bug squashing
• [done] Elmo: get environment up and running
• Pontoon: document how to make a website localizable with Pontoon
• Pontoon: finalize the Admin UX
• Persona: release the current train
• Elmo: bug 748781

Milos

• [done] LSV updates
• [done] Maithili de-beta and Acholi in-beta
• [done] State of Mozilla planning
• [done] Affiliates merges / FB app planning
• [done] input.mozilla.org planning
• LSV Update
• FB affiliates app maintainance
• input.mozilla.org l10n bootstrap

Pascal

• [done] Transvision 1.2, second update to the tool
• [done] Reviewed localization of OneMozilla blog theme source code
• [done] Newsletter center and forms on mozilla.org in Russian and Indonesian working, waiting for activation of database settings on production
• [done] Create a contribute branch on github (because webdev team still hasn't done it) and port all the changesets needed to get that branch working
• [done] started working with new French localizer Sam (from Friedmann) and Guillemette, a new volunteer
• Work on Transvision 1.3 (I try to have weekly minor releases over the summer and potentially fix regressions the week after instead of big releases)
• Get apps/partners page on production for Spanish and Portuguese by the end of the week with a workaround for the unisubs problems our webdev can't fix
• Get the database API settings changes needed for new newsletters fixed so as that I can push Russian and Indonesian live
• Wednesday is bank holiday in France, I will probably take Thursday and Friday off as I have a lot of PTO to use

Pike

• Two run-throughs of test-master on vidyo with mathjazz. The second one is recorded.
• Fennec 16
  • Erin to get string freeze for 16 next
  • expose progress towards that in public
• l10n qa for fennec, follow up actions: https://etherpad.mozilla.org/qa-l10n-meeting
• Aisle
  • still not sure how c9 works wrt extensions
    • docs are promised to come, https://twitter.com/drbernhard/status/237954473652256769
• [done] Fennec shipping discussion with Asa, mfinkle, blassey, Karen, chofmann
  • evaluate shipping all-android-locales build with just native and browser strings
    • [done] prototype build up, just 1M larger than plain en-US build
    • loads of technical details TBD
  • new impact by updater rework and new markets
  • needs feedback and confirmation still
  • if this works, we'll need to talk about those locales not on android

stas

• almost done: refactoring of the l20n.js API
• plan for this week
  • finish the refactoring of l20n.js
  • finish the documentation for the compiler
  • l20n: draft how the language negotiation should work
  • l20n: examples of testing for truthyness
  • work on the httpd.js module for Gaia l10n testing, which looks for l10n files in different locations than the default
  • review the date formatting library for Gaia