B2G builds with multilocale Gaia now available (attention localizers!)

Dec 062012
 

As I mentioned last week, we’ve been working hard to get multilocale B2G builds going. This morning we flipped the switch and turned on multilocale Gaia across the board. The existing desktop and device builds on TBPL will now include a Gaia profile with Arabic, English, Spanish, French, Brazilian Portuguese, and Mandarin Chinese (zh-TW).

Additionally, we now have new desktop builds with all of the locales listed in this file available — meaning that most people localizing B2G can now test their translations in-app. These are available for Linux, Mac, and Windows in the “localizer” packages in this directory.

A few notes:

  • Linux users who have run a B2G desktop build in the past may need to rm -rf ~/.mozilla/b2g before these new builds will function correctly.
  • Gecko is still en-US only. Expect network errors and other such things to be in en-US for now. Multilocale gecko for B2G work is being tracked in bug 817197 and the bugs that it blocks.
  • All of the desktop builds will be updated on a nightly basis. However, there are no automatic updates for them – you must download by hand whenever you want to test newer code or translations.

Upcoming l10n changes to B2G device and desktop builds

Nov 282012
 

Currently, all of the b2g builds on TBPL are using a fixed set of locales which are built into the Gaia repository. These were OK at first, but we’re at the point now where we need to be able to test the languages that we’ll be initially shipping, as well as provide some way for localizers to test out their work. For these reasons, the following changes will be made to the B2g desktop and device builds:
* Unagi, otoro, panda, and the current desktop b2g builds will include 6 locales (instead of the 4 they currently do): Arabic (ar), English (en-US), French (fr), Spanish (es), Brazilian Portuguese (pt-BR), and Mandarin Chinese (zh-TW). These builds are intended for developer consumption and help to test out a wide array of features (rtl languages, languages with long strings, unicode characters, etc).
* We will be adding new desktop b2g builds that contain all languages that Gaia is available in (see https://github.com/mozilla-b2g/gaia/blob/master/shared/resources/languages-all.json for the full list). These builds are intended for localizers to see how their translations look and feel.

These changes should be taking place sometime this week. Big thanks to Staś Małolepszy for adding support for this to the Gaia build system.

Note that for now, the Gecko portions (for example, network error pages in the Browser) will not be localized. We will be enabling localization for Gecko as soon as we can, but it’s not quite ready yet.

B2G Desktop builds now (mostly) available

Jul 042012
 

Hot on the heels of the Armv7a Gingerbread builds for B2G, we now have Mac and Windows Desktop builds of B2G+Gecko available for download. On TBPL, they show up as “Ng” cells in the existing OS X64 opt and Win opt rows, and you can download the builds from FTP in the nightly directories.

Please note that these are NOT full B2G builds. These are developer-targeted builds which only run on desktop machines, and cannot be flashed onto a phone or tablet. These builds are primarily useful to developers, QA and localizers working on Gaia. They can also be used by anyone who wishes to test out their websites or apps through a B2G-like client..

Linux versions of these builds are in the works, and will be available as soon as we fix an infrastructure issue preventing them from successfully building. We hope to have it fixed by the end of the week.

Enjoy!

Edit: If you’re confused about what to do with these builds even after they’re running have a read over https://wiki.mozilla.org/Gaia/Hacking and https://wiki.mozilla.org/B2G/Hacking.

Armv7a Gingerbread Gecko builds (opt+debug) now enabled on project branches

Jun 262012
 

Just a quick announcement that a couple of follow-up bugs to the work from landed:

  • bug 767503 added the new-style Armv7a GB-based Gecko builds to project branches
  • bug 767528 disabled the old, now-superfluous opt builds

All active project branches have had these builds enabled except for the elm and oak twigs. If you are the owner of a project branch and do not wish to have B2G builds on it, or do not feel they will be useful please file a RelEng bug to have them disabled. Do keep in mind that burning these builds when pushing to mozilla-central or mozilla-inbound will get you backed out.

Armv7a Gingerbread-based B2G Gecko debug builds now live

Jun 222012
 

A few weeks ago armv7a Gingerbread-based B2G Gecko *opt* builds started running on most branches. As of a few hours ago we are now generating debug versions of these builds. We now have “Armv7a GB” rows for opt and debug with “Bg” (B2G Gecko Build) cells in them, and we’ll add more build & test cells and platform rows as they arrive.

We know there’s more B2G build requests coming, so as part of this, we also reworked our configs to make it easier to add additional B2G platforms and build types in the future.

For now, we’ve left the original “B2G” builds listed in the “Linux” row on TBPL. These are the initial opt builds that were set-up, and are exactly the same as the new Bg builds in the “Armv7a GB opt” row. This is transitional only – we’ll be running them in parallel over the weekend and shutting the old builds off early next week after we’re satisfied with the new ones.

For more details see bug 758425.