Having updates with l10n-merge allow us to update users from a working l10n nightly build to the next working nightly.
This will help localizers to create a community of nightly testers and they won't have to worry for
A) having to tell their testers to manually download the latest nightly of their locale and/or B) worry that if their testers would have a nightly with missing entities (which meant a crashing experience).
This is a really short post but it has been by no means a short ride. Chris Cooper, Axel and I have been working for the last fifteen months on this project since I started as an intern. We had to untangle the logic from old tinderbox code, port it to buildbot, make buildbot do things that was not designed to do, unveil the "dark magic" of our updates generation system and fight any build ghosts trying to take us down.
Dramatization aside big thanks to Chris and Axel for working hard with me (and having patience), John O'Duinn and Seth for supporting us, Nick Thomas for the headaches I gave him, Ben Hearsum for helping understanding our snippet generation system and anyone from the community who helped me learn what I needed to learn.Last thanks for Mike Morgan with the AUS/Mac debugging.
I hope this contributes the L10n community's success in their respective countries and towards making more people support an open web!
PS = Party tonight at my place to celebrate :)
This work by Zambrano Gasparnian, Armen is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
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