Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 28/12/2015 20:31, Jörg Knobloch wrote: For example, the Mozilla dictionary only knows "zucchini", whereas the add-on dictionary also knows "Zulu" and other words starting with "zu". I'd hate to think that we'd need to create 7265 bugs to add all the missing words. OK, I was wrong, this

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

We could research using native spell checking apis if the platform supports them. For example Windows added spell checking apis in Windows 8. https://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/hh869748%28v=vs.85%29.aspx ___ dev-platform mailing

[Firefox Desktop] Issues found: December 21st to December 25th

Hi everyone, Here's the list of new issues found and filed by the Desktop Manual QA team last week, December 21 - December 25 (Week 52). Additional details on the team's priorities last week, as well as the plans for the current week are available at:

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:32:17PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > On 28/12/2015 20:31, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > >For example, the Mozilla dictionary only knows "zucchini", whereas the > >add-on dictionary also knows "Zulu" and other words starting with "zu". > >I'd hate to think that we'd need to

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote: We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer upstream versions, which is time and effort on its own. Well,

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:51:01PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote: > >We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... we're > >essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer upstream > >versions, which is time and effort on its own. >

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 9:31 PM, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > Thirdly, the add-on dictionary contains 13% more words than the Mozilla > maintained dictionary, and I think in dictionaries, bigger is better. This is not always true for spelling correction, because there may be common

Re: Too many oranges!

On 12/22/15 5:38 PM, Ben Kelly wrote: > I'd rather see us do: > > 1) Raise the visibility of oranges. Post the most frequent intermittents > without an owner to dev-platform every N days. While I am all for raising awareness of oranges, I don't think posting them to dev-platform is the right

Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

Recently I was browsing some bugs in "Core::Spelling checker" and much to my surprise found four bugs where people complained about wrong or missing words in the en-US dictionary. There were two bugs where people complained about words in the German and the French dictionaries. The German and

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 29/12/2015 00:15, Mike Hommey wrote: Because, we have, in fact, imported a new upstream version. The drop in size comes from bug 1137544, which is an upstream import... Hmm, something went wrong from here

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 29/12/2015 08:28, Philip Chee wrote: Time to fork I disagree. It's time to get it right: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1235506 Jorg K. ___ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 29/12/2015 06:51, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote: >> We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... >> we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer >> upstream versions, which is time and effort on its own. > Well, >

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 29/12/2015 07:15, Mike Hommey wrote: > On Mon, Dec 28, 2015 at 11:51:01PM +0100, Jörg Knobloch wrote: >> On 28/12/2015 23:45, Mike Hommey wrote: >>> We're not investing time and effort, that's the core problem... >>> we're essentially letting it rot, without updating with newer >>> upstream

Re: Maintaining the en-US dictionary that ships with Mozilla products

On 29/12/2015 07:28, Philip Chee wrote: Time to fork! Like the en-GB dictionary on AMO has vastly more words (190.000+)that the official upstream. Philip, not sure if you are referring to my en_GB fork. When I grabbed the project around two years ago, the original dictionary (also the