TL;DR: Is there research bringing together Software Analysis and Machine Translation to yield Machine Localization of Software? I’m Telling You, There Is No Word For ‘Yes’ Or ‘No’ In Irish from Brendan Caldwell The art of localizing a piece of...
I'm going to just recreate blame, he said. It's going to be easy, he said. We have a project to migrate the localization of Firefox to one repository for all channels, nick-named cross-channel, or x-channel in short. The plan is to create one...
Or, how to change everything and nobody sees a difference. Heads up: All I'm writing about here is running on non-web-facing VMs behind VPN. tl;dr: I changed 5 VMs, landed 76 changesets in 7 repositories, resolving 12 bugs, got two issues in...
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 …
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...
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...
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...
Let me share some recent revelations I had. It all started with the infamous Berlin airport. Not the nice one in Tegel, but the BBI desaster. The one we've thought we'd open last year, and now we don't know which year. Part of the newscoverage...
Language packs are add-ons that you can install to add additional localizations to our desktop applications. Starting with tomorrow's nightly, and thus following the Firefox 18 train, language packs will be restartless. That was bug 677092,...
If your tool serializes internal state instead of editing files, it'll do surprising things if it encounters surprising content. Like, turn errNotSemicolonTerminated=Named character reference was not terminated by a semicolon. (Or “&” should have...