Wladimir Palant has two recent posts on perl scripts he did for helping him in managing localizations for Adblock Plus and TomTom Home.
Sadly, Wladimir ignored about a year of development in the compare-locales work, and a whole other flock of utilities available as part of the translation toolkit.
This year of development is the result of testing almost 80 different locales against up to 4 different applications and thousands of localizable strings, trying to catch more and more fatal errors in each update. The development hasn’t stopped yet, too. There is more in-depth work going on in Gandalf’s Silme project, for example.
While I appreciate that more folks are paying attention to l10n and extensions, it’s unfortunate to see such work being invested in steps back in capabilities.
Another approach was recently started by Jean-Bernard “Goofy” on the babelzilla wiki and forum. I’m looking forward to add to and help with that project.
I am glad to see my awkwardly-explained project deserves attention and will finally get some useful help from the Mozilla developer’s community (I hope). Many thanks in advance for whatever can be proposed and be useful for extension quality checking.
As a side note, I must say I am a bit sad to see that the efforts of Wladimir Palant seem to be discarded, while he is/was willing to help (*modifying* the code he is currently using for his personal needs to match BZ needs). Being no coder, I just cannot judge arguments about “old” or “recent” code, I just wish to say that all contributions should be welcome.
From my “external” point of view, all developers expressing concern on the same project should be working together. Don’t tell me I am an idealist. Yes you can ;-)
Comment by Jean-Bernard (aka Goofy) — November 6, 2008 @ 5:21 am
Yeah, I still owe you a reply to your latest mail. Just tried to find the right place to direct you to for the more general questions on addons metadata.
Comment by Axel Hecht — November 6, 2008 @ 5:44 am