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Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 3. Compatibility criterion

A couple of weeks ago, I started a series of posts about the productization guidelines for localized Fennec builds. Post one discussed productization and why we need separate guidelines for Fennec.  Post two described the purpose of productization.
Today, let’s discuss the compatibility criterion, which I believe is the most important guideline for localizers to consider.
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16 May 2009 @ 1am

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When should we resolve l10n bugs as fixed?

Here is something that got me thinking recently: should we use the same workflow with regards to marking bugs as fixed for l10n bugs that we use for development bugs? Let me try to explain.
For development, the process takes place simultaneously on several branches. For example right now, we work on trunk (mozilla-central, Firefox.next), 1.9.1 [...]


Bulgarian (bg), Marathi (mr) and Occitan (oc) move out of beta in 3.0.9

Great news! Another 3 locales on the 3.0.x branch have just moved out of beta as of 3.0.9 release. This is a major milestone for these locales, their localizers, and, of course, our users who now can enjoy the polish and top quality of the final releases in their native language.

Добре дошли, хора!
Planvenguts [...]


Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 2. Purpose of productization

In the last post I announced a short series about productization of Fennec. This is the second post in the series.
Before we actually start talking about the default services and best choices, we should provide some background on why’s and what-for’s.
There are two main purposes of adding default web services to Mozilla products:

provide users [...]


Mozilla Fennec L10n Productization Guidelines: Part 1. Introduction

Fennec is a XUL-based browser developed by Mozilla and designed for mobile devices. It shares much of the code with Firefox (e.g. the HTML rendering engine, bookmarking and history, download and add-ons management, JavaScript engine), but uses a different user interface, which is adapted to the mobile contexts in which it will be used.
The notion [...]


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