Localize Firefox 38: Northern Spring and ESR!

Firefox 38 is now string frozen. On March 30th, we'll migrate 38 to beta, which gives you a week and a half to get the translation work into a great state. This is one of our two big releases this year, and it's the ESR, so it's going to be …

On the process to code

gps blogs a bunch about his vision on how coding on Firefox should evolve. Sadly there's a bunch of process debt in commenting, so I'll put my comments in a medium where I already have an account. A lot of his thinking is based on Code First....

Update to the l10n team page

I've given the team pages on l10n.mozilla.org a good whack in the past few days. Time to share some details and get feedback before I roll it out. The gist of it: More data in less screen space, I just folded things into rows, and made the rows …

Create your own dashboard

We have a lot of data around localizations, but it's hard to know what people might be looking for. I just switched a new feature live, edit your own dashboard. You can select branches of products, as well as the localizations you're interested...

Progress on l10n.mozilla.org

Today we're launching an update to l10n.mozilla.org (elmo). Team pages and the project overview tables now contain sparklines, indicating the progress over the past 50 days. Want to see how a localization team is doing? Now with 100% more...

A tale of convert and convert

Or, how I made converting gaia to gaia-l10n suck less. Background: For Firefox OS, we're exposing a modified repository to localizers, so that it's easier to find out what to work on, and to get support from the l10n dashboards. Files in the main...

Updates to localizations in Firefox 22 and 23

If you haven't noticed already, we think our localizers are pretty awesome. We're proud to announce that, on top of all the teams that follow the rapid release process, today's update to Firefox desktop 22 (and Firefox 23 Beta) contains major...

New homepage and design on l10n.mozilla.org

Today we've launched a new homepage on l10n.mozilla.org, and a new sandstone theme. [caption id="attachment_593" align="aligncenter" width="597"] l10n.mozilla.org with the theme[/caption] The l10n site now integrates better with the rest of the...

git-merge 2013

I spent Friday and Saturday on git-merge, an unconference on git. Thursday was developer day, for core contributors to git itself, and libgit2/jgit. I didn't go there. Friday was "user" day, and Saturday was hackday. I figured it might be useful...

Let me shake your hand

Timely for the 15 years of mozilla, let me share this with you. I was wearing my Firefox hoodie in a store in San Francisco last week. I was trying to find out what to buy, and a young guy came by. I did let him pass, but he didn't …