Last spring we ran a survey among active Pontoon users in order to get a clearer picture of how they use (or don’t use) notifications. One of the questions was which new notification features we should develop. The following three … Continue reading
We’ve just shipped the ability to add comments in Pontoon. One of the top requested features enables reviewers to give feedback on proposed suggestions, as well as facilitates general discussions about a specific string. The feature consists of two pieces. … Continue reading
This blog post has been authored in English and translated to Spanish to address Pontoon users who are most impacted by this new feature. Would you like to localize Firefox to your native language, but you don’t feel confident in … Continue reading
One of the missions of Pontoon since its inception has been to host critical information needed for localization under one roof. Over the course of the last few months several pieces of that puzzle have been solved. Translation errors and … Continue reading
Last year we introduced a new review process in Pontoon with the ability to explicitly reject suggestions. That allowed us to accurately filter out suggestions in need of a review from approved and rejected ones. For more details, check out … Continue reading
When submitting a translation, Pontoon runs automated quality checks. They identify issues with punctuation, capitalization, variables, etc. before translations are saved, which prevents localizers from submitting bad translations. We just launched several improvements to the way quality checks work, so … Continue reading
Over the last couple of months several improvements landed in Pontoon. Let’s have a look at some of them! Translate across projects Pontoon now allows you to translate strings across all projects in a single translation interface. Select All Projects … Continue reading
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
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