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Meeting Details

• 11:00 AM Central European Time (UTC +1)
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 206 (US/INTL)
• irc.mozilla.org #l10n-drivers for back channel

Meeting Notes

• Multi-lingual web conference
  • Interesting conference with diverse crowd from browser people, linguistic folks, machine translation, natural language processing, and more!
  • Ping Axel for more details

• Shipping app feedback (cont.)
  • Approval stuff is still not super-slick, but Axel can hack around it
  • Tool chain for doing initial review of sign-offs
    • Right now, need to look at diffs from last sign-off to next sign-off to catch parsing errors
    • Need to do things like check l10n-src-verification
    • Lots of local checks for Axel in place, but all undocumented
    • Seems like we need to highlight the list of dependencies that are not picked up by compare-locales, green dashboards, or other stuff (i.e. list.txt, p12n breaks, etc.)
    • Need easier way to generate change sets
• Beta builds for Fennec
  • Do we need to stop and respin due to some broken builds like German? Axel makes the call.
• Kitsune
  • Complete re-write
  • Two weeks will be feature complete
  • Ship on November 30

Pike

• 2 days PTO in Madrid
• Multilingual Web before, summary on http://blog.mozilla.com/axel/2010/11/05/multilingualweb-workshop-in-madrid/
• Wrapping up Firefox 4 Beta 7, 18 new locales
• Experiment with django on builddb, gonna abuse l10n.m.o for a bit

Talking points: beta builds, Multilingual Web

Stas

• todo: https://github.com/stasm/todo/issues is the list of open issues, I should be done by Friday and ask Pike and Gandalf for a review. Are you guys available next week?
• elmo: discussion with morgamic in bug 606204
• SoW for Pontoon for engagement
• went through the process of updating the l10n-src-verification with sethb
• on PTO all of next week

gandalf

• Verbatim updated to Pootle 2.1.2
• L20n XUL/XBL bindings almost updated to latest schema (minus two leaks I'm working on right now)
• Written Pontoon white paper and SOW and got feedback from Atul.
• Will be at Barcelona Festival (and will try to get more support from Atul ;))

Pascal

(PTO last Friday and bank holliday on Monday, so short week)

• worked on pages for new locales in beta
• worked on upcoming events for mozilla europe (Ubuntu party this week, Drumbeat in Barcelona, "make your first Mozilla patch" hackfest mid-november)
• filed svn account bugs for a couple localizers
• new French volunteer from geckozone wants to help with web l10n (will give him the phishing page as a test)
• many pages updates pushed to production

Kadir

• QA test day for Kitsune KB on November 12th
• Completion of Kitsune KB scheduled for November 30th. Try it out here
• L10n for Firefox 4 docs will start on new KB.
• Sprint to localize Firefox 4 docs on December 2nd
• I'll be at the Balkan meeting in Ljubljana on December 3-5

Talking points: Kitsune KB