I reached another milestone on the l10n builds on the l10n server - reliable l10n depend builds. A short recap on why they could not be reliable. Details are in Armen's and John's presentation in Whistler. First and foremost, l10n builds with...

For those that know that I've been somewhat offline lately, good news. I'm back online. I'm not going into the details, but ISPs in Germany and their handling of customers is, errr, let's put it that way: not Firefox. Other items of progress...

I just uploaded compare-locales 0.5 on pypi. To update your current install, use easy_install -U compare-locales This is the new version that can handle mozilla-central. There are two main features that were required to do so: Not get the...

I've updated the buildbot master and slaves running on the l10n server in the last few days. There have been a few reasons to do so: for Firefox 3.1 localization, I will need an updated compare-locales ... and support on the dashboard there's a...

Where do we go, sings Marillion. In this context, rather, where do my thoughts go. l10n builds it is again. I'm currently working on porting my buildbot work over to buildbot 0.7.8, and prep it for mozilla-central. There are a few interesting...

I've just pushed an implementation of l10n-merge to my tooling repository. It's now actually just an option to compare-locales, and will do the weakest heuristic for now. Whenever compare-locales finds missing entries in an existing file, it will...

While reverse-engineering make-jars.pl for bug 361583, I wondered why we did that weird locking in there. Turned out that that was a fix I reviewed, for a bug I filed, 55174. 5 digit bugnumer, dating back to 2000. Those were the days of make -j32...

Just wanted to point all of you into soccer and languages at the EUROPEADA 2008, that's currently on. "The soccer tournament for the autochthonous, national minorities in Europe", as they say themselves. There's a video featuring some of the...

The current setup of my l10n buildbot is running for 3 months now, or a quarter. I figured that'd be a good time to do some stats. In these three months, the l10n server ran about 10600 builds, 10416 of those on trunk. Of the latter, 2330 builds...

I thought I knew what we did for netError.xhtml and netError.dtd, but I didn't, so here's a little thing I learned today: netError.xhtml loads 3 DTDs, one for xhtml, one is netError.dtd (global) and one is global.dtd (for RTLishness). Two boring...