tl;dr: As of 1 September 2017, Mozilla\u2019s 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\u2019s positive impact in Mozilla\u2019s continued l10n evolution is undeniable and we thank them for all of their contributions throughout the years.<\/b><\/p>\n
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Mozilla\u2019s localization story has evolved over time. While our mission to improve linguistic accessibility on the Web and in the browser space hasn\u2019t changed, the process and tools that help us to accomplish this have changed over the years. Some of us can remember when a Mozilla localizer needed to be skilled in version control systems, Unix commands, text editors, and Bugzilla in order to make an impactful contribution to l10n. Over time (and in many ways thanks to Pootle), it became clear that the technical barrier to entry was actually preventing us from achieving our mission. Beginning with Pootle (Verbatim) and Narro, we set out to lower that barrier through web-based, open source translation management systems. These removed many of the technical requirements on localizers, which in turn led to us being able to ship Firefox in languages that other browsers either couldn\u2019t or simply wouldn\u2019t ship; making Firefox the most localized browser on the market! Thanks to Pootle, we\u2019ve learned that optimizing l10n impact through these tools is critical to our ability to change and adapt to new,\u00a0 faster development processes taking the Internet and software industries by storm. We created Pontoon to take things further and focus on in-context localization. The demand for that tool became so great that we ended up adding more and more projects to it. Today I\u2019m announcing the next step in our evolution: as of 1 September 2017, all Mozilla l10n communities using Pootle will be migrated to Pontoon and the Mozilla Pootle instance (mozilla.locamotion.org) will be turned off.<\/p>\n
Over the years, we\u2019ve developed a fond relationship with Translate House<\/a> (the organization behind Pootle), as have many members of the Mozilla l10n community. Nearly five years ago, we entered into a contract agreement with the Translate House team to keep a Mozilla instance of Pootle running, to develop custom features for that instance, and to mentor l10n communities. As l10n has shifted through the Mozilla organization year after year, the l10n team recently found themselves as part of another internal reorganization, right at the moment in which contract renewal was up for discussion. With that reorganization, came new priorities for l10n and a change in budget for the coming year. In the face of those changes, we were unable to renew our contract with Translate House.<\/p>\n Before 1 September, the l10n-drivers will be proactively contacting l10n communities using Pootle in order to perform project migrations into Pontoon. Moving project-to-project, we\u2019ll start with the locales that we\u2019re currently shipping for a project, then move to those which are in pre-release, and finally those that have seen activity in the last three months. In the process, we’ll look out for any technical unknown unknowns that Pontoon engineers can address to make the transition a positive and seamless one.<\/p>\n There are a few things you can do to make the transition run smoothly:<\/p>\n We understand that this is a major change to those contributing to Mozilla through Pootle right now. We know that changing tools will make you less productive for a while. We\u2019ll be holding a public community video call to address concerns, frustrations, and questions face-to-face on Thursday, 27 July at 19:00 UTC<\/a>. You\u2019re all invited to attend. If you can\u2019t attend due to time zones, we\u2019ll record it and publish it on air.mozilla.org. You can submit questions for the call beforehand on this etherpad doc<\/a> and we\u2019ll talk about them on the call. We\u2019ve also created this FAQ<\/a> to help answer any outstanding questions. We\u2019ll be adding the questions and answers from the call to this document as well.<\/p>\n Finally, I would like to personally extend my thanks to Translate House. Their impact on open source localization is unmatched and I\u2019ve truly enjoyed the relationships we\u2019ve built with that team. We wish them all the best in their future direction and hope to have opportunities to collaborate and stand together in support of open localization in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" tl;dr: As of 1 September 2017, Mozilla\u2019s 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 … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":385,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[199,137,610],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/385"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1146\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.mozilla.org\/l10n\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}What now?<\/h2>\n
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