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Weekly Status Report, W25/2007

I spent lots of time this weekend at the Donauinselfest, one of the biggest yearly open air festivals with reportedly 2.6 million visitors spread over three days this year (my pics from the event are already online).

Leading up to that, I managed to do a share of SeaMonkey work as well in week 25/2007 (June 18 - 24):

Bugzilla reorganization:
Lots of discussion in m.d.planning about the future product/components structure of bmo. Looking better with every revision Gerv makes
places history:
Updated patch for switching the backend, got CVS copy for nsIBrowserHistory.idl in toolkit and updated patch for building toolkit mork history for non-places non-SeaMonkey apps only, which got review.
German L10n sync:
I spent most of my time with that this week. Filed bugs and patches for syncing up dom/, netwerk/, and editor/ui between CVS and my long-lived MozillaTranslator glossary (in addition to the security/manager one I had filed earlier), which sparked a lot of discussions, some of which are still going on, most of which have been settled now though. I also discovered a bunch of cases where my colleagues fixed problems in general strings silently in the de locale, though it would improve quality for everyone to have this fixed in en-US first instead. I filed bugs for those cases we discovered, and also did a few patches for the easy cases. This should be done more often, it helps everyone.
Various discussions:
Form controls regression, user agent rant and proposal/idea, suiterunner regressions, info bars, debug UI, Firefox 3 UI, and others

Items where nothing happend but which I hope to to get some traction on again:

xpfe cleanup:
Not much happened this week on that front, need to look into that again soon.
Killing wallet:
Neil provided new patches to sync up autocomplete for getting this to work. He reported he got an auocomplete popup on his local build, so it looks like we're getting somewhere. Neil is away (yes, really, not only in his nick) this week though.

The list of things I've done might look rather short (and I wonder myself about this), but it shows again what amount of time some single tasks like a mere sync of two existing "code bases" (or actually "string bases" in this case) can suck up. And I think the improved quality we'll be able to provide all German users (and probably users of all languages through the en-US bugs spun off this) is really worth that time.

Beitrag geschrieben von KaiRo und gepostet am 25. Juni 2007 16:26 | Tags: L10n, Mozilla, SeaMonkey, Status | 1 Kommentar | TrackBack

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KaiRo Webmaster	For the form controls, I think this is completely done by code that is not theme-aware, so not much we can do about it, unfortunately. For Austria/Germany: There is no real difference in the official language between the two countries, there are some words here and there that are not commonly used by the other or regionally used words, but esp. for computer UIs, there was never a language difference between versions for Austria and Germany, and the language is practically identical for both. If you go to day-to-day language (esp. food, etc.) the differences get bigger, but we rearely need things like cream topics in browser UI Really big differences would be in casual language or dialects, but not in the officially standardized language ("Hochdeutsch", which sometimes is said to be "the first foreign language" that Austrians learn - as most of us speak dialects with sometimes rather large differences to official German). 26.06.2007 14:52

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For the form controls, I think this is completely done by code that is not theme-aware, so not much we can do about it, unfortunately.

For Austria/Germany: There is no real difference in the official language between the two countries, there are some words here and there that are not commonly used by the other or regionally used words, but esp. for computer UIs, there was never a language difference between versions for Austria and Germany, and the language is practically identical for both.
If you go to day-to-day language (esp. food, etc.) the differences get bigger, but we rearely need things like cream topics in browser UI

Really big differences would be in casual language or dialects, but not in the officially standardized language ("Hochdeutsch", which sometimes is said to be "the first foreign language" that Austrians learn

- as most of us speak dialects with sometimes rather large differences to official German).

26.06.2007 14:52

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