Creation of RTL global task force

[Delphine Lebédel]

This is to notify about the creation of a Mozilla global RTL taskforce.

*Why?

*It has become obvious to the various Mozilla RTL communities that the
creation of an RTL task force is needed in order to drive the RTL effort
onwards and across products.

During the recent l10n RTL Hackathon
<https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2015/10/14/mozilla-rtl-l10n-hackathon/>,
participants (mostly developers) from Arabic, Persian and Urdu teams
have agreed that the RTL task force needs to be first and foremost a
global task force – and that they can then address the possible RTL
differences from one language to another as they come.

We are still looking for participants from other RTL languages to join
us, please feel free to spread the word.

This initiative will be mostly developer focused at first - but feel
free to join if you think you can also bring your expertise as a tester.

*Goals*

A few initial goals have been defined for the task force:

* Planning and working on creating a seamless RTL experience across
Mozilla products
* Identifying and studying possible differences in RTL behavior across
languages
* Finding and fixing bugs in Firefox OS current master- Meta bug:
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179459
* Fixing and fixing bugs in Fennec: RTL tracker bug for RTL Fennec for
Android — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702845

Priority right now is to help find and fix bugs for Firefox OS 2.5
(currently master).

*Ressources/Tools*

We have started to work on creating a few tools in order to help
organize this new community. Please remember to use English as main
language on all these channels, so we can all work together regardless
of language ;)

* Mailing list (in English): https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-rtl
* IRC Channel for FxOS 2.5 dev work: #RTL2.5
* IRC Channel for general RTL community (cross-platform/language): #rtl
* Main RTL wiki portal (still draft version): https://wiki.mozilla.org/RTL

Please help spread the word about this initiative. To join today, the
mailing list and irc channels are a good place to start at.

thanks!

--

delphine

[Mohammed Migdadi]

 Thank you for proposing this great idea, there is a lot of Mozillians who wants to have the chance to contribute and i would love to join this force.
Am thinking about tutorials and sessions for RTL in Arabic from A-Z, we can volunteer to make them, so what do you think ?

Regards Migdadi,
mozilla Reps Mentor |https://reps.mozilla.org/u/Mohammed_Migdadi/
mozilla Jordan,Community Leader
Regional Ambassador Lead

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Subject: Creation of RTL global task force

This is to notify about the creation of a Mozilla global RTL taskforce.

Why?

It has become obvious to the various Mozilla RTL communities that the creation of an RTL task force is needed in order to drive the RTL effort onwards and across products.

During the recent l10n RTL Hackathon, participants (mostly developers) from Arabic, Persian and Urdu teams have agreed that the RTL task force needs to be first and foremost a global task force – and that they can then address the possible RTL differences from one language to another as they come.

We are still looking for participants from other RTL languages to join us, please feel free to spread the word.

This initiative will be mostly developer focused at first - but feel free to join if you think you can also bring your expertise as a tester.

Goals

A few initial goals have been defined for the task force:

- Planning and working on creating a seamless RTL experience across Mozilla products
- Identifying and studying possible differences in RTL behavior across languages
- Finding and fixing bugs in Firefox OS current master- Meta bug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1179459
- Fixing and fixing bugs in Fennec: RTL tracker bug for RTL Fennec for Android — https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=702845

Priority right now is to help find and fix bugs for Firefox OS 2.5 (currently master).

Ressources/Tools

We have started to work on creating a few tools in order to help organize this new community. Please remember to use English as main language on all these channels, so we can all work together regardless of language ;)

- Mailing list (in English): https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-rtl
- IRC Channel for FxOS 2.5 dev work: #RTL2.5
- IRC Channel for general RTL community (cross-platform/language): #rtl

- Main RTL wiki portal (still draft version): https://wiki.mozilla.org/RTL

Please help spread the word about this initiative. To join today, the mailing list and irc channels are a good place to start at.
thanks!
--

delphine

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