Bugzilla:L10N

Bugzilla Localization Working Group

There are people who make localizatons happen: the localizers.

Also, there are people who make localizations possible: architects, analysts, and developers. Localization as long-term design goal may affect decision making in many points that may look orthogonal.

People

The l10n team has been created on 36th meeting.

• Siarhei, Belarus
• Cédric Corazza (Cedric), France
• Marc Schumann (Wurblzap), Germany
• Shimono Atsushi (himorin), Japan
• Vitaly Fedrushkov (SnowyOwl), Russia

Objectives

Knowledge sharing

Reduce effort duplication between localization projects.

Localizability improvement

Fix mainstream product bugs which lead to problems in localized sites. Offer rigorous testing for changes affecting i18n.

Better tools

Use and develop better tools to facilitate localization.

User support

Develop uniform terminology for application domain in each language. Provide support to Bugzilla users in their languages.

Resources

Mailing list

localizers@bugzilla.org was created in 2003 to inform all localizers about critical issues. May be used for internal discussion.

newsgroup

mozilla.dev.apps.bugzilla should be used for discussions open to all Bugzilla developers.

Localizers Guide

now updated by Cédric Corazza.

test site at landfill

to be created

IRC

Time zone gaps make IRC less useful for us, than to other teams :-)

Localization projects

List of all known localization efforts, including duplicated and unfinished. Summary of deliverables is available here.

• Arabic
• Belarusian
• Bulgarian
• Catalan
• Chinese
  • Simplified 3.1.2
  • Simplified
  • Traditional
  • Testopia
• Czech
• Dutch
• French
  • Frenchmozilla
  • French 2.18.4
• German
  • Germzilla
  • Bugzilla-de
• Hungarian
• Indonesian
• Italian
  • Bugzilla-it
  • Bugzilla-italia
• Japanese
• Korean
• Polish
  • Bugzilla-pl
  • aviary.pl
• Portuguese - Brazil
• Russian
  • Bugzilla-ru
  • bugzilla-rus -- alternative terminology
• Slovenian
• Spanish
  • Spain, Mexico, Paraguay
  • Chile
• Ukrainian

To Do

• Revive mailing list -- SnowyOwl
• Contact all l10n projects members to participate in our team -- SnowyOwl
• Take over and update Localizers' Guide bug 412654 -- Cedric
• Schedule and run internal meeting on next generation l10n tool selection. Results are to be reported on next Bugzilla meeting in mid-february.
• Deploy on landfill
• Interact with Mozilla l10n teams