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Meeting Details

• 9:00 AM Mountain View Time (UTC -7)
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 206 (US/INTL)
• irc.mozilla.org #l10n-drivers for back channel
• (notetaker: sethb)

Attendees

axel, sethb, clouserw, pascalc, stas, gandalf, timr

Meeting Notes

Firefox / Fennec updates

Firefox

• Going to take a few more strings this week with Get Personas
• Should start with outreach around today
• Have two weeks or so to increase outreach and we want to freeze early November, perhaps November 3
• Still have time to escalate the outreach
• Minor update between 3.5 and 3.6

Fennec

• Making some progress in terms of the build infrastructure
• Multi-locales stuff is coming together slowly
• Single-locale has a problem definition
  • How are we producing the single-locale as part of the build automation

Web L10n

• Fennec localization is started
  • 1 bug per locale and 1 tracking bug
• Thunderbird localization is started
  • 1 bug per locale and 1 tracking bug
• de-beta bn-BD tonight
• Firefox 5-year campaign
  • Should we re-word Flickr?
• Mozilla in Bulgarian launched
• Plugins check page, Pascal worked with Austin King to patch the javascript library to make it localizable
• Firefox 3.6 Getting Started and What's New are "done" but we should let this one bake

AMO

• AMO 5.2 went out last night
• November 3 is freeze on next cycle
• Not a whole lot of localization on next cycle
• 7 Locales are completely localized (pt-PT, ea, es-ES, pl, sk, ko, vi)
  • Remaining locales are pretty backed up with over 500 strings roughly

Productization and de-betaing

• bn-BD is happy to debeta
• Continue to ping other beta locales today
• Web update about Get Personas
  • Started reviewing the patch and it is a massive change to the code
  • Haven't finished, hope to have it finished by tomorrow
  • As patch gets reviewed, Stas is updating the docs
• Bugzilla change started in .governance

Tools

• May stop working actively on Pootle platform for the time being
  • With over two days of testing, we "killed" the pootle server, producing Django errors with just 2 people
  • Failing to figure out what is going on
• Next release for sign off app
  • Gandalf is trying to maintain and release with the patch coming from Axel

Testing

• Working with ml-QA
• Proposal to do more l10n testing
• Should we be paying them to re-engineer our files?
  • Seth and Tim move forward, then we'll cut apart the analysis from them with our l10n laser cutter
• Should en-GB be on the list

Roundtable

• Travel to MV? Come in early if you want, just tell sethb