[announce] Localizing Weave this September

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hi everyone:

As we approach Mozilla's mobile browser (aka Fennec) 1.0 release, we
have learned that the Mozilla Labs project, Weave
<http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/>, will make a push for a localized
release around the time of the mobile browser's general availability.

Outside of our Babelzilla community, many of you know that the
l10n-drivers and Mozilla project does not have a *great* infrastructure
for localizing extensions like Weave. (Based on some early comments in
a bug that I reference below, it's probably worth adding that AMO's
collector add-on was completed almost entirely outside of Babelzilla.)

Since late last week, Axel and I have been working with the Weave team
to come up with a manageable process for localizers, inside the Labs Hg
repository, if localization of Weave is something we can provide by late
September (likely date of availability, September 23).

Things we are asking and hoping to relay:

1. Please OPT-IN to this email thread if you would like us to set up
a repository for your locale

* This is the bug that many have seen and where some have
commented: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=512491
* Translations will be stored in the forthcoming repos and packaged
together by the Weave team

2. For an early indication of what needs to be done, the following
directory in Hg contains most of the strings that we think we'll need to
localize

* *Please note: This directory is scary right now! :) These files
are being edited now by the Weave team to reduce the number of
strings necessary for translation*
* http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave/file/default/source/chrome/locale/en-US/
* Very early and rough string count is somewhere around 200, which
the Weave team is still reviewing and editing heavily, so it may
be much lower

3. Timeline: We hope to have string freeze by September 10,
providing two long weekends for your work. Localized Weave will be made
available sometime around September 23.

We realize this is not a customary way in which our community has
localized extensions in the past. Apologies for that. But, it seems to
be the best way for the Weave team to manage localizations with all of
us for their work going forward. If you'd like, give us your remarks,
with possible reference to your experience with working on localizing
AMO's Collector add-on, and opt-in if you'd like to work on Weave.

Warm regards,

Seth

[Robert Kaiser]

Seth Bindernagel wrote:
> 1. Please OPT-IN to this email thread if you would like us to set up a
> repository for your locale

de surely wants a repository - we'll clear up internally who will lead
the effort on this add-on but I'm very sure we want to have it.

Robert Kaiser

[dynamis]

Japanese (ja/ja-JP-mac) team will join to weave l10n.
# not yet sure about who and when but someone in our team will

thanks.

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[Ehsan Akhgari]

Persian (fa) opting in.

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[Danishka Navin]

Sinhala (si) opt-in

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[Anas Husseini]

Count Arabic (ar) in.

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[Fryske Firefox]

Hi Seth,

Frisian (fy-NL) opts-in of course.

Kind regards,
Wim

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[wladow]

sk for sure as well

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[Wilson Lee]

zh-TW is opting in as well.

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[Cédric Corazza]

French locale opts-in too

[Marcelo Poli]

es-AR opting in.

Seth Bindernagel escribi�:

>
> We realize this is not a customary way in which our community has
> localized extensions in the past. Apologies for that.

It's the best way to do this. All extensions coming from inside Mozilla
should be localized this way.

[Emilio Sepulveda]

es-CL is opting in

2009/8/25 Seth Bindernagel <se...@mozilla.com>:

> We realize this is not a customary way in which our community has localized

> extensions in the past.  Apologies for that.  But, it seems to be the best
> way for the Weave team to manage localizations with all of us for their work
> going forward.  If you'd like, give us your remarks, with possible reference
> to your experience with working on localizing AMO's Collector add-on, and
> opt-in if you'd like to work on Weave.
>
> Warm regards,
>
> Seth
>
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[Besnik Bleta]

sq opts in

Më 08/26/2009 03:20 AM, Seth Bindernagel shkrojti:

[文少华]

zh-CN opt in.

[Tomer Cohen]

I'd be happy to let Hebrew opt-in. :)

>     *http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave/file/default/source/chrome/locale/en...

[Rimas Kudelis]

Hi,

I'm not quite sure what Weave is, but if it's initially as small as 200
strings, I can do it. Thus, lt opts in.

RQ

[Toni Hermoso Pulido]

ca opts in.

Thanks.

2009/8/26 Seth Bindernagel <se...@mozilla.com>:

> http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave/file/default/source/chrome/locale/en-US/

>   * Very early and rough string count is somewhere around 200, which
>     the Weave team is still reviewing and editing heavily, so it may
>     be much lower
>
>   3. Timeline: We hope to have string freeze by September 10, providing two
> long weekends for your work.  Localized Weave will be made available
> sometime around September 23.
>
> We realize this is not a customary way in which our community has localized
> extensions in the past.  Apologies for that.  But, it seems to be the best
> way for the Weave team to manage localizations with all of us for their work
> going forward.  If you'd like, give us your remarks, with possible reference
> to your experience with working on localizing AMO's Collector add-on, and
> opt-in if you'd like to work on Weave.
>

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[Timur]

Russian (ru) opts in for translating Weave.

[Rail Aliev]

>>>>> "SB" == Seth Bindernagel <se...@mozilla.com> writes:

SB> 1. Please OPT-IN to this email thread if you would like us to set
SB> up a repository for your locale

Turkish (tr) opts in.

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[willyaranda]

es-ES too!

Thanks

[Alexander L. Slovesnik]

Russian (ru) locale opts-in

[Frco. Javier Rial]

gl wants to OPT-IN
Thanks.

>     *http://hg.mozilla.org/labs/weave/file/default/source/chrome/locale/en...

[Γιώργος Φιωτάκης]

Greek (el) opts in too

[Siarhei]

Belarusian [be] opts-in.

With best regards,

Siarhei

[Ricardo Palomares Martí­nez]

Seth Bindernagel escribió:

> As we approach Mozilla's mobile browser (aka Fennec) 1.0 release, we
> have learned that the Mozilla Labs project, Weave
> <http://labs.mozilla.com/weave/>, will make a push for a localized
> release around the time of the mobile browser's general availability.
>

> Things we are asking and hoping to relay:
>
> 1. Please OPT-IN to this email thread if you would like us to set up
> a repository for your locale

es-ES opting in, too. We may use Weave to introduce new member into
the L10n team, although initially I guess I will be doing the commits
myself.

Thanks a lot.

[Axel Hecht]

Dear Localizers,

Last week, Seth emailed about localization of the Weave project in
concert with the release of mobile Firefox. Twenty-five teams have
since opted-in to the process, interested in helping out. Sadly, the
Weave developer team delayed the l10n efforts because they are still
going through a major UI cleanup and will not be ready for us in time.
The localization is postponed until further notice. At that time, we'll
re-engage and let you know the status of the l10n side of Weave.

Our apologies,

L10n-drivers

[Brian King]

Slovene (sl) opt-in.

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[Alexandru Szasz]

Romanian (ro) opts in.

I also set up a project for Weave on l10n.mozilla.org for those who
translate there:
https://l10n.mozilla.org/narro/narro_project_text_list.php?l=ro&p=7&tf=1&st=1&s=

156 strings now and they'll update automatically from Mercurial.

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[Teo]

Polish (pl) locale opts-in
I have ready to release Polish locale.

[Hung. NGUYEN Manh]

Vietnamese (vi) opts-in

Regards,

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----- Original Message ----
> From: Seth Bindernagel <se...@mozilla.com>
> To: dev-l10n <dev-...@lists.mozilla.org>
> Sent: Wed, August 26, 2009 7:20:17 AM
> Subject: [announce] Localizing Weave this September
>
> Hi everyone:
>
> As we approach Mozilla's mobile browser (aka Fennec) 1.0 release, we have

> learned that the Mozilla Labs project, Weave ,

[Mozilla Srbija]

Serbian (sr) opts in

Hung. NGUYEN Manh wrote:
> Vietnamese (vi) opts-in
>
> Regards,
>
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> H�ng. NGUYEN Manh

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