World Wide Web: Curl, Firefox, Mozilla
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Daniel Stenberg ☛ Contingency planning for me and curl
This is a frequently asked question: how will I handle the situation if/when I step away from the curl project? What happens if I get run over by a bus go on a permanent holiday tomorrow? What’s the contingency plan?
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Mozilla
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Dignited ☛ Firefox Relay is Your Answer to Spam Mail and a Messy Inbox
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Mozilla ☛ Mozilla Localization (L10N): A Deep Dive Into the Evolution of Pretranslation in Pontoon
Quite often, an imperfect translation is better than no translation. So why even publish untranslated content when high-quality machine translation systems are fast and affordable? Why not immediately machine-translate content and progressively ship enhancements as they are submitted by human translators?
At Mozilla, we call this process pretranslation. We began implementing it in Pontoon before COVID-19 hit, thanks to Vishal who landed the first patches. Then we caught some headwinds and didn’t make much progress until 2022 after receiving a significant development boost and finally launched it for the general audience in September 2023.
So far, 20 of our localization teams (locales) have opted to use pretranslation across 15 different localization projects. Over 20,000 pretranslations have been submitted and none of the teams have opted out of using it. These efforts have resulted in a higher translation completion rate, which was one of our main goals.
In this article, we’ll take a look at how we developed pretranslation in Pontoon. Let’s start by exploring how it actually works.
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