One of the major improvements that Mozilla has invested in over the last year was to get Firefox localizations into our tree and being compiled right along with our en-US builds. For Firefox 1.0, we met that goal and it allowed us to ship simultaneous 1.0 releases in more than a dozen languages and we're up to about 30 languages now.
Today, it sounds like we're ready to start taking the Thunderbird localizations into Mozilla's cvs repository. This is very exciting news and a big thanks is owed to Ben, Gandalf, Axel, Chase, and others who made this happen. Having the Thunderbird localizations in the tree for the 1.1 release will help us get the localized builds out sooner and ensure they're of the quality we expect from our official releases. Thanks, again, to everyone that made this happen.
Posted by asa at May 4, 2005 12:46 AMDoes this mean that moz.org will start serving the right l10n of TB based on the browser used, as it does for Firefox? That would be great.
Posted by: David Naylor on May 4, 2005 02:02 AMDavid, I don't see a whole lot of reasons why we're not doing that already. There is https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=279559 on the issue.
The trunk is at 15 locales for Firefox right now, and counting. We still haven't all the locales ported over from the aviary scheme to the trunk, yet.
Posted by: Axel Hecht on May 4, 2005 02:56 AMAxel, thanks for the info.
Posted by: David Naylor on May 4, 2005 03:39 AMFYI: "Opera passes 2 million download mark" http://www.techweb.com/wire/software/162101092
Posted by: channeler on May 4, 2005 11:34 AMChanneler: I'm glad you like Opera. Good for you! Some people like Yugoslavian cars too.
I'm also quite pleasantly surprised that you've decided to remove any evidence that might hold you responsible for your remark. me@privacy.net, fantastic, why not use your my.opera.com page as a URL so that people can visit your, I'm sure it's lovely, blog? I'm just curious why you need the anonymity that a true fan of Opera would not need, because if you love it, you should stand up for it.
Posted by: Tom on May 4, 2005 04:55 PMTom: I'm sorry you misunderstood my post. It was not intended for you, but for Asa, who, a few days ago, was wrestling with reports that Opera downloads were in the 60 million range. The purpose of my post was to provide him with a link to an apparently unexaggerated report of their downloads. The quoted phrase is the headline of the article.
I do not like Opera. I do not use it. I never said I did. You are reading a great deal into a simple link.
The reason I used an anonymous e-mail address was (1) the post did not really require a trackback to me, since it was merely an information link; and (2) the last time I posted my e-mail address here I was subsequently greeted with so much spam that I had to abandon the address. Perhaps I was just unlucky enough to post on a day when his blog comments were "harvested" by an e-mail bot -- I don't know. But as a result of that experience, I no longer take chances with Asa's blog unless I expect a reply.
Should you wish to take further potshots at me, I've attached a URL for my website which will provide you with a valid e-mail address.
Alternatively, you might consider a cold shower.
I apologize wholeheartedly, but the comment you made wasn't relevant at all to the post. Since you remark that it was related to a previous blog post of asas, would it not have been better placed there?
Also, I use gmail and have actually placed my email on gervase markhams blog before, and after that all i got was emails about my southtrust bank account which didn't exist, so I know full well the perils. That's why he suggests obfuscating emails (with N05P4M or something) now. I just use gmails Plus-Addressing, which really helps me find out where the spam comes from.
Again, sorry, but there are so many instances of opera fanboys on this blog that it seemed like you were yet another one, bringing up opera in an non-relevant blogpost. I hope you can forgive me.
Posted by: Tom on May 5, 2005 12:16 AMTom: You're forgiven. And thanks for the suggestions... I'll look into them.
Cordially,
Ron
Hi,
Our team recently translated firefox in Hindi and Tamil and tried to get the translations on the firefox l10n project page. But its turned out to be mightly difficult. Email to two different IDs mlp-staff@mozilla.org and bsmedberg@covad.net bounced. Ultimately we created langpacks for both the languages and put them for download in the extensions site.
This might seem a off topic but just a reminder that sometimes this happens.
Posted by: akash on May 5, 2005 02:42 AM