Re: Source L10n for extensions (ChatZilla, venkman and others)

Gijs Kruitbosch wrote:
> Benjamin Smedberg wrote:
>> Which add-ons? Extension locale packs are not regular extensions that you
>> would browse for apart from the extension their localizing... they 
>> would be
>> tightly associated in the database.
> 
> Right, but that'd take considerable effort on the AMO part of things, on 
> something which we're just now cooking up as some kind of "standard" or 
> whatever you want to call it.

True that it will take some effort for AMO, but you should be aware that 
this is actually not a completely new thing we're cooking up, Benjamin 
and others had envisioned such a system for some time, that's one reason 
why we have those extension dependencies and extension locale packs 
already supported in Toolkit 1.9 EM.
Oh, and how do you know that AMO is not going to take the effort of 
supporting this?

> I don't think this will be done by the time Fx 3 releases

I think it actually could be done, but we'd need AMO people to tell if 
and how it can, it's wron for us to assume they will or will not.
The good thing is that AMO is not bound to Firefox feature and string 
freezes in the way the Gecko core is, so they can still work on this 
right up until the last week or so before Firefox 3 and even after that 
(though I guess for a short time right around the release they will be 
overloaded with traffic and don't want additional risk).

Anyways, I think we need to actually have something available they can 
use for testing the new feature if we want them to implement it.

Robert Kaiser