[Reminder] Thunderbird 3 beta1 string freeze in eight days (2008-11-14)
Simon Paquet
I just want to remind everyone, that we're the string freeze for the
Thunderbird 3 beta1 release is approaching fast. We will freeze our
strings for the beta1 release on Friday, November 14.
For those of you, who do not try to keep up with our string changes
on a daily basis, now is a good time to take a look at all the string
changes that have happened lately.
The l10n dashboard at http://l10n.mozilla.org/dashboard/?tree=tb30x
should give you a good indication on which areas of your locale need
the most work. A documentation of the dashboard is available at
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Thunderbird:Localization:Dashboard
What many of you will notice right away is, that we've worked hard on
removing unused/obsolete strings in the last weeks. Removing all those
strings from your localization is something that can already be done
before the string freeze as we are not planning on bringing those
strings back. I know that this cleanup work means additional work for
you, but hopefully it will make things easier for new localizers
signing up to work on Thunderbird l10n.
In our last pre-release (alpha3) we managed to release with 28
locales. I hope that we can increase this number in this pre-release
to 30 or maybe even 35.
I really hope that you will surprise me :)
If you have any questions, do not hesitate to ask here in the
newsgroup or in #l10n on IRC.
Cya
Simon
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