Re: Mozilla 1.5 questions

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Ahmad Twaijry <msx at hush dot com> wrote:
> On Mon, 29 Sep 2003 00:42:40 -0700 Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>
> wrote:
> >Ahmad.T (MSX), could you please include this bug onto your list of
> >bugs weall need to vote for and keep track of on Arabeyes' Mozilla
> >page (are there others that are critical that we missed from before ?)
> >
> >  http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=180112
> 
> I will Insh'a Allah add this bug (the bugs list in
>   http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Mozilla
> is all what I have , check them because there some new bugs)

Then we all need to relook at them and make sure our votes are included !!

> >BTW: with the immanent release of 1.5 (RC2 is already out), what
> >is the status of Arabic support (and your translations) ?  Can you
> >give us a brief account on what's been improved/changed with regard
> >to Arabic ?
> 
> We had done 51% of mozilla strings and I had released a BETA
> version of 0.2 before 2 weeks (check
> http://www.4-sms.com/users/mozilla/?action=news&ID=6
> for packages links)
> 
> We translated 1000 new strings in this new BETA

Ah, didn't see that - I just corrected a mistaken entry on the Arabeyes
Mozilla page (the entry was dated 2014 and so didn't show up on the front
page as part of the news - do make sure that the blurb you enter is
correctly dated).

> This month I have a problem, no body translating with me !! I don't know
> why (I have more than 40 registed user in the database but no one working
> like the preview month), anyway I am translating ~20 (or more) strings
> every day while I am browsing the net

We've seen the same problem.  Lots of people register and talk, yet
not many do anything.  If you ever find out the panacea to this
problem, let us know :-)

> >I'm unsure of the status of the files on our CVS (the translated
> >terms(the localized files)), did you tag them with "1.4" and
> >upload the upcoming 1.5 files to translate ?
> 
> No right now I don't use CVS anymore because right now I am using a web
> scripts (php) to translate mozilla (the mozilla strings is in MySQL),
> it make it easy for a group translate mozilla and it make me upgrade
> the Arabic package to any new mozilla version in a minute

I would VERY much like to change this.  There are a number of reasons to
use the CVS, most importantly its a _central_ safe keeping repository which
is being actively backed-up.  This will insure that we don't lose any data
and that all your (and others') hard work will never be lost.  The various
CVS checkins also inform the various people on the list of active on-going
involvement and work (case in point, not many people knowing about your
1.5 Beta release), etc, etc.  I again want to stress the need for those
files to be on CVS - at a min, you should upload them once a week or
similar (create a script to access your mysql and dump out all the necessary
information to be stored into CVS).

Salam & keep 'em coming :-)

 - Nadim

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