#1 Sounds good!
by naylor83
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 12:45 AM
Localised packs/builds on CD
* Bart has a list of 5 localizations we want
This sounds like a very good idea!
#2 Re: Sounds good!
by Gerv
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 1:20 AM
Those five are French, Italian, German, Japanese and Chinese (simplified.) Hopefully the plan for making this happen will soon be released; I can't guarantee, but I hope we can offer space on the CD to anyone who produces a pack in the right timescale which is of sufficient quality.
Gerv
#4 Re: Re: Sounds good!
by TimHunt
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 2:36 AM
A good start, though Spanish seems to be a major omission. I suppose pages like this:
http://www2.ignatius.edu/faculty/turner/languages.htm
give an idea of the languages it would be nice to add next.
Though I expect the real issue is the existence and stability of the respective localisation project:
http://www.mozilla.org/projects/l10n/mlp_status.html
Tim.
#7 Re: Re: Re: Sounds good!
by MTO
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 7:08 AM
Yes, I cant believe Spanish is being left out of this!
That must be a major omission by error, by ERROR I hope.
Spanish (es-ES) shouldnt be ommitted, I hope that list of 5 localizations changes, urgently!
#10 Re: Re: Re: Sounds good!
by asa
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 8:57 AM
As Gerv said, we're still working on this and we'd certainly like to have Spanish (and any other well tested and completed in time language packs) on the CD as well.
#11 Re: Re: Sounds good!
by asa
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 9:01 AM
I miscommunicated in the staff meeting. It's actually 6 language packs that wet'll be directly pursuing:
1- German
2- French
3- Japanese
4- Chinese
5- Italian
6- Spanish
There are others that we'd certainly consider taking if they are well tested and completed by the time we're ready to ship the CD.
--Asa
#3 1.5.1 today?
by maniac
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 1:44 AM
The minutes mention 1.5.1 being "today". But wasn't 1.5.1 a Mac-only release that already happened?
#5 Re: 1.5.1 today?
by nonpareility
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 3:21 AM
Check the title... "The minutes of the mozilla.org staff meeting of Monday 24th November 2003 are now online."
#6 Re: Re: 1.5.1 today?
by maniac
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 6:25 AM
#8 no spanish?
by kwanbis
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 7:20 AM
the second us language? the most country wise spoken language in the world?
#9 Re: no spanish?
by bzbarsky
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 8:32 AM
And a language for which the localization is downloaded less often than the localizations for the five languages mentioned in the release notes?
#12 Re: no spanish?
by Sinuhe
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 10:56 AM
Well, I do not know about the Spanish localisation per se, but it could be that most downloads of it are made at http://nave.escomposlinux.org/ (or any of the other Spanish localisation websites) ... for the Slovene pack, we "advertise" solely our website, and get on average ~850 downloads of our language pack or localised builds per month of the Mozilla Suite alone (+370 Firebird, +430 Thunderbird), and the ftp.mozilla.org statistics showed a meagre 89 downloads at one point I think. Which is quite big a difference I should think!
#13 well...
by galio
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 11:46 AM
...there are three different Spanish localization packs (es-ES, es-AR and es-HN), apart from many people download them directly from the localization websites. Also, yo may like to know that Spanish has more NATIVE languages that English ;-)
by max_spicer
Wednesday December 3rd, 2003 12:14 PM
I used to have a gb locale for Mozilla installed. The number of changes it made were tiny, but it's amazing how much difference it makes having a program that says colour instead of color etc. It would be really nice if the english version included the uk locale, as well as the us, but don't worry - I'm not suggesting it go on the cd!
As an aside, does Firebird have options for locale, or are they hidden atm? I can't see them anywhere.
#15 Talkback?
by mcsmurf
Thursday December 4th, 2003 11:38 AM
#16 "Programmatically finding and fixing dead links"
by dan123
Friday December 5th, 2003 12:00 PM
By coincidence I found a piece of software mentioned on The Inquirer which does this and it appears to be freeware.
Maybe it'll help the developers (hoping they'll read this, how do I get a message to the person who's doing the new mozilla.org website if they don't find this?)
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=13016
#17 Re: "Programmatically finding and fixing dead link
by zachariah
Saturday December 6th, 2003 2:36 PM
What a pain to download that software -- I had to give out all my info (including phone number) and I had to visit like 10 pages just to get the software -- arg!
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Minutes of the mozilla.org Staff Meeting of Monday 24th November 2003