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Celebrating the *Pole* position
46,8% as of today. Celebrating with Aviary.pl folks in Cracow. Legendary! This race is only about to start :)
View ArticleBulgarian (bg), Marathi (mr) and Occitan (oc) move out of beta in 3.0.9
Great news! Another 3 locales on the 3.0.x branch have just moved out of beta as of 3.0.9 release. This is a major milestone for these locales, their localizers, and, of course, our users who now can...
View ArticleWhen should we resolve l10n bugs as fixed?
Here is something that got me thinking recently: should we use the same workflow with regards to marking bugs as fixed for l10n bugs that we use for development bugs? Let me try to explain. For...
View ArticleBugXhibit: an interface to Bugzilla’s search results
This is awesome. Andrew Sutherland hacked up a very cool proof-of-concept interface to Bugzilla search results using MIT’s SIMILE Exhibit library. It allows you to query Bugzilla using the Quick Search...
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Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 3. Compatibility criterion
A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of posts about the productization guidelines for localized Fennec builds. Post one discussed productization and why we need separate guidelines for Fennec....
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Clustory: reinventing the tabs in the browser
My answer to this summer’s Design Challenge is: forget about tabs completely. Clustory: reinventing the tabs in the browser (Mozilla Concept Series) from Staś Małolepszy on Vimeo. In the video above...
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Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 4. Search engines
Search engine plug-ins are arguably the most prominent and the most talked about component of productization. Every localization team working on Firefox goes through the process (supported by these...
View ArticleLet’s make the l10n documentation better
Abstract: Help us improve the l10n documentation by participating in creating a complete inventory of our documentation resources at Delicious. All you need to do is to bookmark any page with useful...
View ArticleHow to test beta locales using Litmus. A short guide.
Testing is an important step in the process of making a new localization ready for its debut as a final locale. It’s also a great way of improving the quality of localization when the locale is still...
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Search engines in Fennec — Guidelines update
After getting some feedback on my previous post about search engines in Fennec, I made slight modifications to the suggested guidelines. The main difference is the inclusion of a social search...
View ArticleHow to test beta locales using Litmus. A short guide.
Testing is an important step in the process of making a new localization ready for its debut as a final locale. It’s also a great way of improving the quality of localization when the locale is still...
View ArticleAn intro to L20n
Last weekend I had a chance to quickly hop on the stage of the Mozilla devroom at FOSDEM and demo l20n to the audience. It was a really cool moment for me. I’ve been involved to some extent in the...
View ArticleSearch engines in Fennec — Guidelines update
After getting some feedback on my previous post about search engines in Fennec, I made slight modifications to the suggested guidelines. The main difference is the inclusion of a social search...
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Localization team work-week in Brussels
The localization team at Mozilla are meeting this week in Brussels for a week full of debates, co-work and conferences. The last time that we had an opportunity to meet in person as a whole team was...
View ArticleStanowisko polskiej społeczności Mozilli ws. ACTA
Ten tekst jest dla mnie ważny dlatego, że ACTA to nie tylko prawa autorskie. Łatwo jest wpaść w tory dyskusji pt. Piractwo. Za i przeciw. Ale ACTA to także zagrożenie dla wolności słowa, prywatności i...
View ArticleBoot to Gecko localization update, July 18
Mozilla is gearing up for releasing a mobile OS based on Gecko and HTML, codenamed Boot to Gecko, or B2G. It is a stack comprised of a Linux kernel and low-level userspace layer, with Gecko running on...
View ArticleResponse to yesterday's CFP for Boot to Gecko
Yesterday I started a thread in mozilla.dev.l10n and published a post on my blog outlining the localization schedule for Boot to Gecko and asking localizers to respond if they’re interested in...
View ArticleRunning Boot to Gecko on your desktop
If you want to preview B2G and Gaia, you might be interested in knowing that the release engineering team started producing desktop builds which you can run on your desktop computer a few days ago. As...
View ArticlePushing the B2G string freeze back a few weeks
If you followed my recent announcements on this blog and in the mozilla.dev.l10n newsgroup, you were probably expecting a string freeze for B2G, a.k.a. Firefox OS, this Friday, July 27th. The string...
View ArticleHow to test localizability of Gaia system apps
Gaia is a collection of HTML5 apps running ontop of Gecko. These apps are akin to regular websites you visit on the Web every day and they’re made using the same technologies: HTML, JavaScript and CSS....
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