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 slimmer. Better display of sign-off status, I separated status from progress and actions. Actions are now ordered chronologically, too.
The details? Well, see my recording where I walk you through:
View it on youtube.
Comments here or in bug 1077988.
Wait a second, we’re on the rapid release schedule for almost a year now, and 9 releases. How can the l10n dashboard be friends with the trees only now?
Well, I’ve hacked and lied and tweaked and spoofed the data for a year. No more.
The obvious changes are:
On the team page, you’ll now see something like
You’ll notice the difference between the Current sign-off with the green check-mark, and the fx14 one with the looking glass. In the past, we’ve shown the green check-mark for both, now we’re actually showing the version that we’re using instead of the current one, and the looking glass is there to indicate that the localizer should actually look into this. There’s been a good deal of confusion about this, and I sure hope that this will resolve it a good deal.
There’s a ton of follow-up work, for one on elmo. This bug has been blocking a lot of other patches and work, both for the localizer-facing parts as well as the release infrastructure-facing parts.
More so, the state of localizations changes from “n missing strings, probably in this bucket” to “didn’t update since fx12”. That’s changing how we guide our work as l10n drivers a good deal. The impact between what we do and what localizers do becomes less anecdotal, and more science.
And there’s quite a few things we need to do, in particular for desktop.
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