A year ago, we saw hope that L10n will get a bit more focus from mozilla.org staff (but not a lot of action happening yet),
MLP staff was more or less deserted (one member left who was hardly available), Firefox was quite new, Mozilla Europe even more.
<br>Within a year, lots of things changed:
-<ul>
- <li><b>February 2004</b>: <a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/">Mozilla Europe</a> launched,
- having a <span class="hilite">multi-language web site</span> and promising to help L10n efforts.</li>
- <li><b>March 2004</b>: Mozilla Europe offered to build up automated build systems for localized Mozilla installers.</li>
- <li><b>April 2004</b>: Andrea, the last, not very responsive guy to upload builds to mozilla.org, asked me to join MLP staff.
- All attempts to do so failed though (mail server config problem).
- BTW, that was the last time we heard of Andrea.</li>
- <li><b>June 2004</b>: Mozilla Foundation organized a first IRC meeting for localizers.</li>
- <li><b>June 2004</b>: Benjamin Smedberg started to work on getting Firefox (branch) L10n into some good order and CVS-based.</li>
- <li><b>July 2004</b>: After Andrea had been gone entirely, I got FTP staging and website CVS access at the end of the month.
- Uploading of localized builds to mozilla.org did start again, after we didn't have any new builds there for a while.</li>
- <li><b>August 2004</b>: I opened a bug report requesting for volunteers for re-grouping MLP staff.
- staff@mozilla.org did agree to our plans of regrouping that team and some people did actually volunteer.
- We started talking of what responsibilites who wants to take and who will get the team leader.
- At the end of the month, I actually got into mlp-staff@mozilla.org list after myk investigated the server problems.</li>
- <li><b>August 2004</b>: Localization Trademark policies for Firefox and Thunderbird were worked on, including input from Mozilla Europe and me.</li>
- <li><b>September 2004</b>: Benjamin got L10n CVS set up at a new CVSROOT, creating of accounts started.</li>
- <li><b>September 2004</b>: The new MLP staff team got into shape, the members agreed that I should lead the team.
- Slowly, over the next months, people got the accounts (staging, website CVS) they need for their tasks and started working in those areas.</li>
- <li><b>September 2004</b>: Localization Trademark policies got finished and published.</li>
- <li><b>September 2004</b>: At the end of the month, we started regular L10n phone meetings with focus on FF/TB 1.0 releases.</li>
- <li><b>October 2004</b>: The automated build process for Firefox was heavily being worked on and took on more and more shape,
- Mozilla Europe offered to host international pages (those linked of the FF start page) for all over the world (registering mozilla-world.org for that),
- snippets for those start pages were invented to make the (at this point confidential) google start pages possible.</li>
- <li><b>November 2004</b>: In the beginning of the month, we got our hands full with localized pages coming in to be hosted by Mozilla Europe,
- getting start page snippets into the tree, and localizations ready for shipping (e.g. signing off by trademark policy).
- Firefox 1.0 was released simultaneously in 15 languages with more to follow (rising to 28 until January).</li>
- <li><b>December 2004</b>: In another big effort, we managed to get Thunderbird released in 12 languages, with some following shortly afterwards.
- As a CVS-based approach wasn't available, all builds made by volunteers had to be tested and signed off at MF by Asa/Sarah/Chase.</li>
- <li><b>December 2004</b>: MLP staff started monthly IRC meetings.</li>
- <li><b>January 2005</b>: The L10n team registration process was revamped to use Bugzilla instead of mails.</li>
- <li><b>January 2005</b>: Zbigniew Braniecki (gandalf), who did lots of approvals for L10n checkins, was inveited to phone meetings evolving around 1.1 releases.
- He started to work on getting trunk ready for using "source L10n", the new CVS-based approach.</li>
- <li><b>February 2005</b>: Firefox trunk localization is getting to work, gandalf is working on getting it to work for Thunderbird next.</li>
- <li><b>February 2005</b>: Firefox 1.0.1 should get released in 40 languages simulaneously.</li>
- <li><b>February 2005</b>: Ideas for restructuring of MLP web pages are taking shape, the mess should get cleaned up soon.</li>
+<ul class="timeline">
+ <li><b>February 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li><a href="http://www.mozilla-europe.org/">Mozilla Europe</a> launched,
+ having a <span class="hilite">multi-language web site</span> and promising to help L10n efforts.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>March 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Mozilla Europe offered to build up <span class="hilite">automated build systems</span> for localized Mozilla installers.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>April 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Andrea, the last, not very responsive guy to upload builds to mozilla.org, asked me to join <span class="hilite">MLP staff</span>.
+ All attempts to do so failed though (mail server config problem).
+ BTW, that was the last time we heard of Andrea.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>June 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Mozilla Foundation organized a first <span class="hilite">IRC meeting for localizers</span>.</li>
+ <li><span class="hilite">Benjamin Smedberg</span> started to work on getting Firefox (branch) L10n into some good order and CVS-based.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>July 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>After Andrea had been gone entirely, I got <span class="hilite">FTP staging</span> and website CVS access at the end of the month.
+ Uploading of localized builds to mozilla.org did start again, after we didn't have any new builds there for a while.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>August 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>I opened a bug report requesting for volunteers for <span class="hilite">re-grouping MLP staff</span>.
+ staff@mozilla.org did agree to our plans of regrouping that team and some people did actually volunteer.
+ We started talking of what responsibilites who wants to take and who will get the team leader.
+ At the end of the month, I actually got into mlp-staff@mozilla.org list after myk investigated the server problems.</li>
+ <li>Localization <span class="hilite">trademark policies</span> for Firefox and Thunderbird were worked on, including input from Mozilla Europe and me.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>September 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>Benjamin got <span class="hilite">L10n CVS</span> set up at a new CVSROOT, creating of accounts started.</li>
+ <li>The <span class="hilite">new MLP staff team</span> got into shape, the members agreed that I should lead the team.
+ Slowly, over the next months, people got the accounts (staging, website CVS) they need for their tasks and started working in those areas.</li>
+ <li>Localization trademark policies got finished and published.</li>
+ <li>At the end of the month, we started regular <span class="hilite">L10n phone meetings</span> with focus on FF/TB 1.0 releases.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>October 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>The <span class="hilite">automated build process for Firefox</span> was heavily being worked on and took on more and more shape,
+ Mozilla Europe offered to host international pages (those linked of the FF start page) for all over the world (registering <a href="http://www.mozilla-world.org/">mozilla-world.org</a> for that),
+ <a href="http://www.mozilla.org/start-snippets/">snippets</a> for those start pages were invented to make the (at this point confidential) <a href="http://start.mozilla.org/firefox">Google start pages</a> possible.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>November 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>In the beginning of the month, we got our hands full with localized pages coming in to be hosted by Mozilla Europe,
+ getting start page snippets into the tree, and localizations ready for shipping (e.g. signing off by trademark policy).
+ <span class="hilite">Firefox 1.0 was released simultaneously in 15 languages</span> with more to follow (rising to 28 until January).</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>December 2004</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>In another big effort, we managed to get <span class="hilite">Thunderbird released in 12 languages</span>, with some following shortly afterwards.
+ As a CVS-based approach wasn't available, all builds made by volunteers had to be tested and signed off at MF by Asa/Sarah/Chase.</li>
+ <li>MLP staff started monthly <span class="hilite">IRC meetings</span>.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>January 2005</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li>The <span class="hilite">L10n team registration</span> process was revamped to use Bugzilla instead of mails.</li>
+ <li><span class="hilite">Zbigniew Braniecki (gandalf)</span>, who did lots of approvals for L10n checkins, was invited to phone meetings evolving around 1.1 releases.
+ He started to work on getting trunk ready for using "source L10n", the new CVS-based approach.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
+ <li><b>February 2005</b>:
+ <ul>
+ <li><span class="hilite">Firefox trunk localization</span> is getting to work, gandalf is working on getting it to work for Thunderbird next.</li>
+ <li><span class="hilite">Firefox 1.0.1/1.0.2</span> should get released in 40 languages simulaneously.</li>
+ <li>Ideas for <span class="hilite">restructuring of MLP web pages</span> are taking shape, the mess should get cleaned up soon.</li>
+ </ul>
+ </li>
</ul>
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