Rapid releases and the l10n dashboard are friends now

Wait a second, we're on the rapid release schedule for almost a year now, and 9 releases. How can the l10n dashboard be friends with the trees only now? Well, I've hacked and lied and tweaked and spoofed the data for a year. No more. The obvious...

compare-locales 0.9.6

I've updated compare-locales with two important fixes: License header fix for ini files, bug 760998 l10n-merge now works with multiple errors per file, bug 756448 I've also updated the license to MPL2. Update your local installs with the usual...

Migrating to the rapid release process

Wait, what, migrating to the rapid release process? Aren't we, like, doing that? Well, not in the data models that drive the l10n dashboard. What follows is two-fold, for one, why would I be hacking on a patch for half a year? But also, there are...

compare-locales 0.9.5

Busy times for compare-locales, there's another release out the door. New in this release are a significant rewrite of the Properties parser. A lot less regular expressions, a lot more performance in bad situations. Thanks to glandium for poking...

What's a glossary term?

I'm hacking on some tool that indexes the localizable strings in our apps. One of the fall-outs could be a glossary tool, i.e., which terms in Firefox, Thunderbird, etc should localizers bother to get consistently translated. Which raises an...

Web-based IDEs for Localization

There isn't much news on the localization tool front that I started at MozCamp in Berlin, but I've got some more questions for the web tool guys among you. As any good project, a localization editor should stand on the shoulders of giants, so...

compare-locales 0.9.4 released

There's yet another update to compare-locales, we're now at 0.9.4. Please update your local installs with pip install -U compare-locales Changes since 0.9.3 are: Catch % as error. Sadly, there's not much more the parser reports than Invalid...

Minor update to compare-locales for mobile/android/base

I've just pushed a minor update to compare-locales to pypi and the dashboard. The only change is that it applies the android quote tests to the files in mobile/android/base. As always, update your local installs by pip install -U compare-locales

compare-locales 0.9.2 released

I just uploaded a new release of compare-locales to pypi, hg.m.o and github. Changes since the last released version: Support for nested l10n.inis, notably, browser/branding. Errors on CSS specs, notably, if en-US is a length or min-width etc,...

Data models and "vom Kopf auf die Füße"

As you all know we're having a new release scheme. That's all good and great for localization, but there's one tiny little peppermint: It exposed each and every design problem in the l10n dashboard, code-named elmo these days. As many folks...