+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.
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Within a year, lots of things changed:
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+ - February 2004: Mozilla Europe launched,
+ having a multi-language web site and promising to help L10n efforts.
+ - March 2004: Mozilla Europe offered to build up automated build systems for localized Mozilla installers.
+ - April 2004: 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.
+ - June 2004: Mozilla Foundation organized a first IRC meeting for localizers.
+ - June 2004: Benjamin Smedberg started to work on getting Firefox (branch) L10n into some good order and CVS-based.
+ - July 2004: 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.
+ - August 2004: 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.
+ - August 2004: Localization Trademark policies for Firefox and Thunderbird were worked on, including input from Mozilla Europe and me.
+ - September 2004: Benjamin got L10n CVS set up at a new CVSROOT, creating of accounts started.
+ - September 2004: 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.
+ - September 2004: Localization Trademark policies got finished and published.
+ - September 2004: At the end of the month, we started regular L10n phone meetings with focus on FF/TB 1.0 releases.
+ - October 2004: 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.
+ - November 2004: 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).
+ - December 2004: 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.
+ - December 2004: MLP staff started monthly IRC meetings.
+ - January 2005: The L10n team registration process was revamped to use Bugzilla instead of mails.
+ - January 2005: 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.
+ - February 2005: Firefox trunk localization is getting to work, gandalf is working on getting it to work for Thunderbird next.
+ - February 2005: Firefox 1.0.1 should get released in 40 languages simulaneously.
+ - February 2005: Ideas for restructuring of MLP web pages are taking shape, the mess should get cleaned up soon.
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