Wisdom of machine translation

At times machine translations achieve results that no human could word that well. This is what google language tools have to say about fixing stuff on short timelines: We are using everybody's frustrated, Sorry. Found here.

In case you didn't notice...

I've been on vacation, I'm back. What's the point? If you're in to South Africa, Cape Town, Garden Route, and Fynbos, there are some 250 photos to go through.

Users and testers

Trevor swiftly fixed bug 424993, so now I can talk about users and testers of Firefox 2 and 3, per locale, per platform. Thanks. This is data over the last 7 days, so it's not dead-on representative, and it won't cover new locales in B5, but only...

Builds, shuttle busses and cabs

There have been a few blog posts recently about when to do builds. I'd like to add a few thoughts of mine. I'll follow mostly two trains of thought * each check-in raises a bunch of questions, to which we want answers -- quick * the road to these...

How is ab-CD doing?

Just wanted to plot a brief update. I'm currently mostly working on improving our understanding of how localizations are doing for Firefox 3. The plan is to come up with a dashboard, gathering at least the quantifiable machine-readable...

FOSS.IN report

I've been out of Berlin for two weeks, first to MV for workweek, where we had three and a half days of meetings. Interesting stuff, but nothing to blog about yet. Then Mary Colvig, Chris Hofmann, Myk Melez, and I headed over to Bangalore for...

Enter Bug: Mozilla Localizations

Thanks to reed and bug 353480, the Mozilla Localizations component on Bugzilla moved from "Client Support" over to the "Client Software" category, and is now available on the main enter_bug.cgi page. This should make it much easier for...

Web 2.0 Expo Berlin

Does anybody know what a "Comp Pass" is? I got one, and I don't. Nor does anybody that's checking it. Anyway, it get's me onto the fairground and all, so... If anybody of you has strong feelings on which presentation I should attend, and possibly...

Localizations for Firefox 3 Beta 1

I posted to mozilla.dev.l10n about how we're going to ship localizations for Firefox 3 Beta 1, aka M9. In a very executive summary, opt in -- to do so, follow up on the post on m.d.l10n go green don't mess up search etc help testing Find the …

Firefox 2 glossary

As I have been blogging before, I try to create a glossary for Firefox 2. I'm leaving out all the gory details, but it's been a hard fight between me trying to be clever and being dumb. I'm still not happy with the code that creates the data, but still …