I want to make those of you, who are actively translating Lightning
aware, that we are now ready to freeze our strings for the approaching
1.0b2 release.

After the string freeze we are currently planning for two and a half
additional weeks before we try to release our first release candidate
on May 25th. We would really appreciate it if you could have your
locales
in shape for the first RC, as I do hope we will only need one release
candidate. Please also note that we have to stay in sync with the
Thunderbird schedule, so we might have to prepone our rc1 release to
an earlier date.

That gives you 2-3 weeks to get your localizations in shape.

The 1.0b2 release will come from the comm-1.9.2 release branch, which
means you should commit your work to the l10n-mozilla-1.9.2
repositories <http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.2>. If
any of you will not be able to keep his or her locale updated for the
1.0b2 release, please let me know beforehand.

I am aware that we still don't have bug <https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/
show_bug.cgi?id=346278> fixed, I am really sorry this is still the
case. If rc1 is released and you notice any localization problems,
please do let me know as quickly as possible so I can coordinate a
second release candidate. I do hope to fix this bug in the next two
weeks though!

Please let Simon Paquet or me know if any of you wants to join us for
1.0b2.

If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask them here in
the newsgroup mozilla.dev.l10n.

Thanks,
Philipp