Verbatim/Weekly Update/2009-07-09

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Meeting Details

• 9:00 AM Mountain View Time (UTC -7)
• 650-903-0800 x92 Conf# 227 (US/INTL)
• irc.mozilla.org #Verbatim for backchannel
• (notetaker: Fred)

Attendees

Seth, Gandalf, Fred

Agenda

• Quick roundtable
• Pootle roadmap
  • should we ask Alaa to join next week's meeting?
• Preliminary Q3 goals:
  • July
    • Verbatim --> AMO / SUMO
    • Client tool research (More details from Seth?)
  • August
    • Find weak points in Verbatim UI and get fixes on their way
    • Plan and design beta support for Firefox (discuss at l10n meetup?)
• l10n meetup goals

Roundtable

• wenzel
  • Got staging instance back up, had problems with LDAP. LDAP login possible again, but no local user data is stored/present automatically. Filed Pootle bug 1024 about it with no comments yet, planning on asking clouserw for advice.
  • Working on hooking up AMO again (bug 502896): Found existing Python scripts on sm-cms01, will reuse/fix them and track them in SVN.

• gandalf
  • Consider switching LDAP to LDAPS?
  • Assign bugs
  • Failed to get Remora working locally :(

Notes

• Fred asked Pootle guys for SVN write access for e-gandalf and fwenzel,
• Seth asked about Pootle roadmap
  • need further info on goals of next Pootle release
• Goals discussion:
  • product localization not a big problem, every localizer likes it
  • bigger problem: websites etc.
  • Can we create a tool to make it easier?
  • Product localization works well -- better direction seems to be improving website l10n
  • "Crowd-sourcing" l10n: single string localization on mobile devices?
  • Central goals:
    • Provide better tools for localizing all of Mozilla's web assets in a sustainable and community-driven way.
    • Make a "one-stop shop" for l10n of Mozilla websites
    • Make it easy for people to sign up and start localizing
    • Allow l10n communities to switch on/off products to be localized online.
    • Making it easier for people to localize and actually get this into the tree.
  • Order of goals:
    • AMO, SUMO
    • Other websites
    • tie different tools together (narro, pootle, one-stop-shop)
  • l10n.m.o page (like QMO etc.)

To do

• Will keep "old" bugs around until we can decide if they have been fixed or are still valid.
• Assign new bugs to gandalf and Fred
  • AMO -> Fred
  • SUMO -> gandalf
  • AMO .po file migration to msgctext -> gandalf
  • LDAP fixes -> Fred
• Seth will ask one of the Pootle guys to join the meeting next week to discuss goals
  • Next week's meeting may be any time between 6-9am Pacific depending on Pootle guys' schedule
• Fred: Will need to refine Q3 goals together with Morgamic. (see above). If necessary, will schedule a meeting to discuss these again.