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Archive for March, 2008

10 years of Mozilla

Mar 31

Posted by willyaranda in 10 years, Mozilla-based | No Comments

10 years ago Mozilla was alive. A 31th of March of 1998 the Mozilla foundation was officially published and presented to the crowd.

Mozilla has grown a lot since this date. More and more people know it and use one or more of its products.

I can only say… CONGRATULATIONS MOZILLA!!

You are only a child (you need 18 years to become an adult ;) ) but it will be a mature boy.

A good post about that, is in the Mitchell’s Blog.

Grrr…

[Mm, Opera renders the SVG image bellow, but... Ff3pre doesn't, why?]

Mozilla Mascot

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Will be Mozilla 1.9 codebase *only* a Firefox release?

Mar 18

Posted by willyaranda in Mozilla 1.9, Mozilla-based, firefox 3 | No Comments

It seems that the million-dollar question has a answer: “yes”.

Watch the past and the present.

1.7 code -> Firefox 1 and Thunderbird 1.

1.8.0 code -> Firefox 1.5 and Thunderbird 1.5. (sunbird o.5?)

1.8.1 code -> Firefox 2 and Thunderbird 2. (and sunbird 0.7-0.8?)

So… 1.9 -> Firefox 3. Only.

There is an interesting disscussion in m.d.platform about that. KaiRo opened the pandora’s box :P

I support Simon Paquet, another topic in m.d.l10n, about /l10n frozen for Ffb5.

Mozilla, don’t do that, please.

Malware advises, and how to visit the blocked pages

Mar 14

Posted by willyaranda in Malware, Phishing, firefox 3 | No Comments

Firefox 3 will have a new blocking system for Malware and Phishing. For end user, this could be a great improvement, because he will not visit suspicious sites and his private data won’t be compromised.

But, for people who REALLY want to visit this pages (mmmm, maybe the page has been reported as an attack site, and it doesn’t), we can use this useful extension to add a little text at the bottom of the warning that provide us a form to bypass this blocking.

I’m not sure if this thing could be in final Ff3 release, but it’s a great idea…

How do you feel working on Mozilla?

Mar 13

Posted by willyaranda in Mozilla-based, Personal | No Comments

Yesterday I read a post in KaiRo’s blog about how does it feel about working in Mozilla. Today I have received an email from Ricardo (Seamonkey rules, isn’t it?) talking about these post and some more reflections about that.

Regarding the post, I could say I’m not as involucred as KaiRo in Mozilla project, I’m only a localizer and mini-writer of documetation in Spanish, when I could, I help in Mozilla Hispano and doing some QA in Mozilla-based software.

So, I only do Mozilla things when I want. I have no one with a gun behind my head forcing me to do some work I don’t want. I mean, KaiRo left his job because he could with the donations to him from Seamonkey entusiausts. I cannot (obviously :P ).

I think that you aren’t be able to work when you are feeling bad or depressed, or burned, like KaiRo said.

So, take a time, and get back with enormous strength!

Mozilla T-shirt redesign

Mar 9

Posted by willyaranda in Marketing | No Comments

I love this design proposed by David Boswell.

Mozilla redesign

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Why I don't like SUMO

Mar 3

Posted by willyaranda in Community, SUMO, Support | 2 Comments

  1. Now, it’s Firefox-centric. In the future will be Mozilla centered, but now, not.
  2. For the es-ES community, we have another project: Mozilla Hispano, which has a lot of documentation, but it’s for now in a development moment, so it will grow a lot in the future.
  3. Related to the web-based system:
    1. In-product help in Firefox 2 are 14 files. The import to SUMO: 14. Right now: es-ES has 14 articles. en-US more than 150. So, should we translate all en-US? (I think it will be the reference language). I think it is a very very expensive option, l10n teams will stay all day watching articles (150-200-500, who knows!!) to updating it to the latest version.
    2. Positive: all can edit pages and contribute to help others
    3. Negative: communities with a big numbers of members and help had to migrate all their docs? could we import from sumo to our wikis? and vice versa? (mmm, licences?)
    4. Both: only few people can approve changes and edit them before people could see it so there is always a time without the “best” answer to a problem.
  4. Live chat: I think all es-XX translation should have one live chat, because our l10n are not too different and if an user need help at 6am, be sure that no es-ES people (well, if we are back from a party…) be in that, but maybe some es-AR people.

Ping: David Tenser and Chris Ilias on: http://blog.mozilla.com/sumo/2008/02/29/sumo-talk-at-fosdem-2008/

Thanks guys!

And… sorry for my very bad English!! I will try to learn more and more for the next FOSDEM :P