L10n:Pontoon/0.1alpha

General Plan

• Individual leads needed for 0.1 release
  • Dev lead (Gandalf)
  • Dev backup (Fred?)
  • Code review (Fred?)

Goal of this release

To release an experimental, but stable version of Pontoon for localizers to test on Mozilla websites.

Initial time-line

• Free hacking
• March 1, 2010 - API freeze
• March 15, 2010 - Code freeze
• March 30, 2010 - 0.1 Alpha Release
• Any external dependencies

Bugzilla

Tracking Bug

Feature Summary

1. Back-end set up to handle html translations
   • Team will need to work on stabilizing the client to server communication when a user has installed the tool
   • Will need to make sure there are no conflicts if many users are using the tool on the same localization
   • Measure for success: Tool is supported on a Mozilla server without major conflics
2. Clean UI focusing on clear work flow
   • Existing work flow will cause problems for localizers from different localization teams. The tool probably needs a clear list of locales where a user starts with a selection to begin work.
   • Measure of success: Testable tool with a clear work flow
3. Silme support by allowing export to any format and not just Gettext
4. Site auto-detection so we don't have to have a header
5. Mozilla IT support on a staged server

Other features, ideas, requests

• Split list of strings which are available for translation to two list (what was translated, what is needed to translate)
• Locale autodetect. I should see my locale by default.
• Sidebar isn't ideal for this tool. What about interface like Firebug has?