On Tue, Dec 29, 2015 at 12:23:05PM -0500, Ehsan Akhgari wrote: > On 2015-12-28 2:31 PM, Jörg Knobloch wrote: > >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 French bugs were finally closed as "wontfix" and > >"invalid" and referred back to the respective dictionary maintainers. > >For French there is a very good a approach: The French dictionaries are > >maintained via this site: http://www.dicollecte.org/ and imported for > >distribution with the French version of Firefox. The situation for > >German is not as good, but there is a maintainer whose work is then > >turned into an add-on (in fact, sadly, two competing ones). > > As you have discovered, we don't ship any non-en-US dictionaries with > Firefox, so the above is off topic for this mailing list. > > >I was extremely surprised that Mozilla maintains a version of the en-US > >dictionary, and you can see the movements here: > >https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/log/tip/extensions/spellcheck/locales/en-US/hunspell/en-US.dic > > > > > >Basically Ekanan Ketunuti does merges from upstream providers (SCOWL) > >but also adds words individually and Ehsan reviews each change. > > That's incorrect. I periodically merge from SCOWL, and Ekanan regularly > submits patches for words missing from SCOWL (and our en-US dictionary.)
Note that was true for a very long time. The regular merges from SCOWL are fairly recent. Mike _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
