Verbatim/Weekly Update/2009-07-23

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Meeting Details

• 9:00 AM Mountain View Time (UTC -7)
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 227 (US/INTL)
• irc.mozilla.org #Verbatim for backchannel
• (notetaker: sethb)

Attendees

Seth, Gandalf, Fred, Friedel, Dwayne, Alaa

Agenda

• Update on the developer refresh
• Pootle update

Notes

Sethb gives Verbatim update and vision

Pootle update

• • Making first release for new Web release on the Django platform
    • Somewhat painful, but short-term is stabilizing a release for existing users of Pootle with good feature set they are used to
  • Not all underlying Django work is done
  • Terminology improvements
  • Translation Memory
  • Permissions and rights for administrators
  • Soon, Virtaal to be released
  • Better file management

Fred's comments

• Hooking up AMO with SVN with scripts that Dan and Wil wrote
• Trying to include localizable html files
• Make it easier to add project

Gandalf comments

• Making AMO work with normal Gettext
  • Writing patches for AMO to use normal Gettext
  • Pootle autodiscovered the languages for AMO
• Created Bugzilla account for locomotion
• Do the same for SUMO
• Investigate how Pootle would work with new LOL formats
• May investigate the po-->DTD conversion scripts and minimize the diffs when it comes time to the Hg

Questions

• Was an user experience person ever engaged to look at the Pootle UE and UI?
  • Some designers mocked up about 5 versions, but an important learning was that none of the designers had ever done any translation
  • Changes have been made on the most frequent request that were made
  • Look and feel changes from Dan and Wil last year
  • Current layout is still similar

• From Friedel:
  • HTML conversions scripts haven't been used much, so please let us know any difficulties
  • Difficulties in adding new projects are partially addressed
  • AMO and SUMO gettext

Round table

• Consider travels so we can meet all together
  • FOSDEM in February 2010
  • Prague in October 2009

To do

• Follow Verbatim project in Bugzilla
• Push changes upstream to Locomotion