When we began talking about style guides with localization communities at l10n hackathons, we suggested that the Mozilla Wiki was a good place to temporarily store them, until we could define a more centralized and accessible place for them, and … Continue reading
Translation review is the vital part of localization. The first step of each review process is to find suggestions that haven’t been reviewed yet. Since this fundamental task can be quite tedious in Pontoon, we’re making it better! Problem You … Continue reading
Yesterday we changed the way that you create localized builds on mozilla-central. This works for developers doing regular builds, as well as developers or localizers without a compile environment. Sadly, users of artifact builds are not supported. For language packs, … Continue reading
tl;dr: As of 1 September 2017, Mozilla’s Pootle instance (mozilla.locamotion.org) will be turned off. Between now and then, l10n-drivers will be assisting l10n communities using Pootle in moving all projects over to Pontoon. Pootle’s positive impact in Mozilla’s continued l10n … Continue reading
Gaul is entirely occupied by the Romans. Well, not entirely… One small village of indomitable Gauls still holds out against the invaders. While most of mozilla gathered in San Francisco, a small group of ten hands gathered in a small … Continue reading
Hello from sunny Northern California! This week was Mozilla’s bi-annual All Hands, a gathering that brings Mozilla employees and community together for a week to hack on key Mozilla objectives. This All Hands, the Firefox team (which l10n is a … Continue reading
From May 6th-7th, 42 participants (coincidence? I think not) gathered in the beautiful city of Paris for another successful edition of our l10n workshops. This was one of our larger scale events with a total of twelve localization communities from … Continue reading
Translation memory is now available for download in Translation Memory eXchange (TMX) file format for every project you localize in Pontoon. This functionality allows you to reuse Mozilla translations when translating other projects, even if you use other translation tools. … Continue reading
In discussing our plans for this years’ event, the city of Taipei was on a short list of preferred locations. Peter from our Taipei community helped us solidify the plan. We set the date for April 21-22 in favour of … Continue reading
Let’s do a quick walkthrough of several Pontoon improvements that landed over the course of the last month or so. Abiding maximum string length. If string length limit is provided, Pontoon will now detect it and prevent translations exceeding the … Continue reading