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
With over 30 projects available for localization in Pontoon, hardly any day goes by without an important update in at least one project. Until recently, you had to manually check your team and project dashboards to find out if new … Continue reading
Mozilla has been kindly invited to participate in the Google Summer of Code (GSoC) 2017. For the first time, Pontoon will be part of this great program, which introduces students to open source software development. Read on if you’re interested … Continue reading
At the end of last year we ran a user survey and transformed results into Pontoon roadmap for 2017. Since the top-voted feature (in-app notifications) was blocked by the runner-up (project priorities and deadlines), we started working on the latter. … Continue reading
At the end of last year we asked Pontoon users to participate in our survey in order to help us make better decisions on their behalf and shape the future of Mozilla’s translation tool. Turnout exceeded our expectations: in the … Continue reading
Stas and I met in Riga with the Baltic and Polish l10n communities to do a hackathon. We gathered Latvian, Lithuanian, and Polish. Sadly, nobody from the Estonian community could attend due to conflicting schedules, but Merike Sell joined us … Continue reading
A few months ago we rolled out bulk actions in Pontoon, allowing you to perform various operations on multiple strings at the same time. Today we’re introducing a new string filter, bringing mass operations a level further. From now on … Continue reading
Twice per year, Mozillians from around the world are invited to attend the All Hands work week. All Hands is an opportunity for both paid and volunteer staff from all functional areas to meet together to solve problems, brainstorm new … Continue reading
From May 20-23, l10n-drivers Jeff Beatty and Delphine Lebédel met with 11 participants from 4 different communities in the city of Buenos Aires (Argentina) for 2 days of localization hacking. These communities represented Spanish from Chile, Spanish from Argentina, Guaraní … Continue reading