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Archive for August, 2008

Creating a Weave's server

Aug 27

Posted by willyaranda in Products, Weave | 6 Comments

Well, long time ago I tried Weave (0.1 version) and I left behind in a second, but I don’t remembered why.

Today I was reading something about Ubiquity (I will blog about this awesome extension in a few days, when I have played with it), and suddenly: Weave. Why not give it another chance?

The answer could be: it’s full. Nobody can sign-up now. The server is crowded, so it’s slow, buggy… And yes, it is full and crowded. But you can create your own Weave’s server. And I did on my Dreamhost server (this how-to is focused in Dreamhost, but could be adapted).

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Happy birthday Bugzilla

Aug 26

Posted by willyaranda in Products | No Comments

Bugzilla is nowadays widely used in the bug tracking world. But only 10 years ago, it was a small project on the Netscape community.

It first release was 10 years ago and run under Oracle (“it cost too much”) and Kiva (“$35,000 at the time”). And on 26th August 1998, Bugzilla could run freely (under Apache and MySQL).

Long live Bugzilla!

Reference #1 and #2

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Using Mercurial for l10n progress

Aug 23

Posted by willyaranda in Firefox, es-ES, l10n | No Comments

First of all, I use Mercurial because of the change of many Mozilla products to this VCS. But I think that for localizers is enought to have CVS. Why? Because usually we are one or two different people with CVS access and more usually localizers only touch a part of his l10n. For example, in the es-ES team we are two members with access to Mozilla’s repository: Ricardo and me.

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New Fennec release: M6

Aug 8

Posted by willyaranda in Fennec, l10n | No Comments

If yesterday I wrote a blog post about how to localize Fennec M4, today I read on the Mark Finkle blog that there is a new milestone in the Fennec development, the M6 (0.6). This is a pre pre pre pre alpha release, so use carefully.

I think I will try this myself in less than 2 weeks…

How to localize Fennec

Aug 8

Posted by willyaranda in Community, Summit, es-ES, l10n | 1 Comment

On the Summit 2008, csejersen and mic presented a conference about l10n Fennec (the new Firefox for mobile).

So, this is an interesting blog post about that.

Also, congrats to gandalf (from MoCo, and Aviary.pl member), you are a new l10n-driver! ;)

Nice Summit summary

Aug 5

Posted by willyaranda in Community, Events, Summit | No Comments

aaronlev has written a long and full of content article about this last Summit.

Must read.

Nukeador, John Lilly and me

Nice!

Thanks Mozilla!!

Aug 2

Posted by willyaranda in Events, Summit | No Comments

I was at the Mozilla Summit 2008, in Whistler, BC, Canadá.

And it was amazing. I met people that I only knew as a nickname, and it is very funny that *a lot* of people related to Mozilla (Mozilla employees) speak spanish, or at least, try to.

So, thank you Mozilla for this Summit, despite rock slides, power outages, bears and snow the 31 of July, it was so perfect.

Thanks to Dan Portillo, who worked very hard on the Summit for above problems.

Oh, i forget, the nice 8h trip from Whistler to Vancouver via Lillooet was A-M-A-Z-I-N-G. I’ve never seen a landscape like that!!

It could be a risky thing, but… please, more Summits on Whistler ;)

I’m going to stay the whole month in Vancouver, so I think i will post more about that. And I dunno if i will have WiFi on the hotel nor the students center, so maybe i will answer emails a little bit later…