Localization begins…

So, we’re three weeks from the next Flock browser release.

We made a huge progress since 0.4.10. We’re source-l10n now, we have SVN repository for our localizers, we’re ready to reuse Mozilla L10n code…

And today I sent the very first email to whole group of people listed on out Wiki. In the next few days I’ll send two or three more about the specific issues like  Localization of Flock 0.7, mid-term plan for localization sites, localization policy.
At the moment I’m working on the script that will be able to switch ab-CD.jar directory structure into source structure and backwards. The goal is to make it easy to localize basing on the package (old method), or using source-l10n (new, better method).

I also want to prepare a perl (python maybe?) script that will allow us to make localized Flock basing not on sources, but on en-US flock package. This will be a real “repackaging” and should limit the resource use on tinderbox machines. This is still just a vision, since I’m not sure if it’s better to build a script or use Makefiles for that.

Anyway, those are just tools, the process is ready. If you’re a Flock localizer and for some reason, you’re not listed on the Wiki, you can read the initial email here.