Hi all,
ABSTRACT: The string freeze for B2G will happen in a few weeks. No new
string freeze date as of today. You can still start working on a few
related things.
If you followed my recent announcements on this list closely, you
probably know that I was going to announce a string freeze for B2G,
a.k.a. Firefox OS, this Friday, July 27th. That didn't happen and there
was a good reason for it.
We are pushing the schedule of the B2G project back a few weeks. I
don't expect the localization to start by the end of August.
Why is this happening?
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Due to the current hardware availability and us needing more time to get
the code and the features in a good shape, we decided that it will be
good for the project if we extend the time we have for the current
milestone, and make sure everything works like it should.
The exact schedule is yet to be determined. I hope to have more details
in a week or two, so please do follow the newsgroup and expect more
posts coming soon.
Is this a good thing?
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Yes :) Having more time is obviously beneficial in many respects:
- less bugs in the code!
- more testing that go into the final release,
- the main localization phase will not happen in August, which
traditionally is a holiday month in many regions,
- there's a MozCamp happening in September, so we'll have a chance to
talk about the localizability and the localization process during it,
- it will be easier to synchronize the localization of Gaia with the
localization of Gecko 17 on which B2G will be based (17 goes to aurora
on 8/27).
Can we start working on something else today?
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Meanwhile, there still are a few other things that you can do today to
help B2G and Gaia be ready for localization.
- Review the wireframes of Gaia apps.
Read more at
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/mozilla.dev.l10n/YvI5gMCn6TU
- Test desktop builds and file bugs
More details here:
http://informationisart.com/11/
- Localize Mozilla Marketplace
The Marketplace will be an important part of the Firefox OS experience:
see Wil Clouser's emails to this list about AMO localization
- Localize Mozilla Persona
Mozilla Persona (previously: BrowserID) will, again, be an important
identity-management piece of Firefox OS and the Marketplace: see Matjaž
Horvat's emails to this list about Persona localization.
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Let me know if you have any questions, or if anything isn't clear to
you. I'll be happy to help!
-stas