L10n talk - FOSDEM 2005 - Mozilla Meeting

+The CVS-based L10n process established for Firefox 1.0 and currently applied to trunk +(Firefox, Thunderbird should follow soon) is also known as "source L10n", +because we have the L10n files directly in the source code in a CVS repository. +

Details

CVS repository: cvs.mozilla.org:/l10n + (in parallel to cvs.mozilla.org:/cvsroot + - accounts are different from main Mozilla code repository)
Module "l10n" in parallel to "mozilla" (trunk)

Directory structure: +

+/mozilla/netwerk/locales/en-US/...
+/l10n/ab-CD/netwerk/...
+/mozilla/dom/locales/en-US/...
+/l10n/ab-CD/dom/...
+/mozilla/toolkit/locales/en-US/...
+/l10n/ab-CD/toolkit/...
+/mozilla/browser/locales/en-US/...
+/l10n/ab-CD/browser/...

Build option: --enable-ui-locale=ab-CD
Automated builds (Windows, Linux, Mac - including installers) + generated at Mozilla Foundation for all releases
Build tools (LXR, Bonsai, Tinderbox) available for all locales
Possibility to have localized nightly builds for improving QA

Source L10n