Fwd: Firefox L10n Report (Aurora 40)

[Ani Peter]

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Subject: Firefox L10n Report (Aurora 40)
Date: Mon, 18 May 2015 13:12:40 -0600
From: Jeff Beatty <jbe...@mozilla.com>
To: dev-l10n <dev-...@lists.mozilla.org>



Hello localizers!

Thank you all for your great work with Firefox 38 and 39. Here's an
outline of what is currently in Aurora this cycle (40) and what we
accomplished together last cycle:

This cycle (Fx40) -- 11 May - 29 June

Key dates:
- Beta (39) sign-offs for new locales must be completedby 9 June.
- Beta (39) sign offs for already shipping locales must be
completed before 16 June.
- Aurora (40) sign offs must be completed before 29 June.
- Firefox 39 released12 May.
- Firefox 38.0.5 (Northern Spring Release) releases 2 June.

Remember that the schedule for the next few cycles is going to be odd.
Here are the basics:
- May 11 - June 29 -- This cycle will be 7 weeks in order to catch up to
the regular schedule after cutting the Fx38 in Aurora cycle short by one
week.

Features:
- Approximately 239 new string changes landed in Firefox Aurora
desktop and 35 for Fennec Aurora exclusively (unshared).
- 40% of desktop string changes are related to devtools. 13% are
related to e10s and add-ons. 9% are related to Firefox Hello and 10% are
related to new tabs and new prefs. Please see
https://wiki.mozilla.org/Features/Release_Tracking#Likely_in_Firefox_40
for more info.
-2 devtools files, (gcli.properties and gclicommands.properties)
were moved from browser (browser/locales/en-US/chrome/browser/devtools)
to toolkit (toolkit/locales/en-US/chrome/global/devtools). Tools like
Pootle will automatically detect this change; if you're localizing
directly on Mercurial, you should move the files using 'hg mv'. Feel
free to ask more information on the mailing list or IRC (#l10n) if you
need any help.
- 50% of the Fennec strings changes are related to tab queue
management. ~30% are related to doorhangers firstrun, and onboarding,
and prefs. ~20% are related to tab queues. 37% are obsolete strings that
need to be removed from your repo.
- In addition to Firefox and Fennec, Firefox for iOS will launch
it's first version /after/ the Northern Spring Release. I'm hoping to
have more information about this next week.

Notes:
Please remember that sign offs are a critical piece to the cycle and
mean that you approve and can vouch for the work you're submitting for
shipment. For the 38 Northern Spring Release sign-offs, Axel and I made
the decision to accept sign-offs for locales who had spent a long time
trying to come up-to-date but have struggled to complete translation for
all necessary parts. Our rationale was that it was better for a new user
to receive the most up-to-date localization, even if that localization
is only 80% localized, rather than a localization of Firefox that was
65% localized. If anyone has questions about this, please feel free to
find Axel and I.

Last cycle -- 30 March - 11 May

Noteworthy events:
- 82% of all locales shipped Firefox 38 on desktop updates on time.
Congratulations to everyone who signed off and shipped this last cycle!
This is a stunning 11% increase in locale coverage between Firefox 37
and Firefox 38! Hooray!
- 87% of all locales shipped Fennec 38 on time. Congratulations to
everyone who signed off and shipped this last cycle! This is a stunning
12% increase in locale coverage between Fennec 37 and Fennec 38! Hooray!
- The Azerbaijani [az] team launched their first localizations of
Fennec with Fennec 38. Please reach out to them with your congratulations!

Thank you to everyone for all of your dedication and hard work this last
sprint. As always, if you note anything missing in these reports, please
let me know.

Thanks,
Jeff
--
*Jeff Beatty*
Localization Engineer
@mozilla_l10n <http://twitter.com/mozilla_l10n>
801.367.3763
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