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
Environment variable to trigger locale checkout: MOZ_CO_LOCALES="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