2.0.0.4 languages

There are a few changes in our language support that came with Firefox 2.0.0.4. We have officially released Afrikaans and Belarusian. Congratulations to both teams. If you know someone that should or could use those versions and doesn't, please...

LinuxTag 2007 wrap-up

LinuxTag 2007 was interesting, in fact, more interesting than I anticipated. I cherry-picked a few talks from the program on Friday and Saturday. Crowding effects: How money influences open source projects and its contributors, by Matthias...

Crowding out at LinuxTag

I listened to a talk by Matthias Stürmer on crowding out effects in communities by monetary incentives. Gonna be interesting to have Seth and Matthias look at the Mozilla Community giving program. The good news is, I feel that we're on the right...

LinuxTag 2007, Berlin

I'll be spending some time at LinuxTag 2007, here in Berlin, Friday and Saturday. There seem to be a few interesting talks on the program, including some XUL dark matter. I'll be hitting the exhibition floor, too.

Re: platform

Firstly, architectures with one platform give you grass on rails, not rubies. Opting for still-imagery here, take a look at the Amerika Bahnhof. I pondered taking half a day off and take some pictures from Berlin's Lehrter Bahnhof (or,...

9:30

Firefox Flicks works, listen to the cover version of Wheee in wet feets in plone at minute 9:30.

The incubator

When working on new localizations of Firefox and Thunderbird, it's pretty tricky to get all the tooling right and to distribute your work for testing. In addition, there's no real build environment that tells me how far particular localizations...

side by side

I have two morning routines, going through my newsgroups, and through my list of comics. Today, side by side, the Mozilla 2 discussion on .platform and today's strip on sinfest.

Ukrainian localization landed on trunk

I'd like to congratulate Tim Babych and the Ukrainian localization team for the initial landing of the Ukrainian localization of Firefox 2 on the trunk. If you know someone that would like to test it, there is a language pack in the landing bug,...