Re: Removing Creative Commons and Answers searchplugins from l10n builds, any thoughts?

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Friendly reminder, if you haven't seen this mail, before we start
removing searchplugins.

Francesco

> Hi,
> as you probably noticed, in the last months we've been trying to clean
> up all searchplugins shipped with our localized builds of Firefox,
> fixing errors, updating icons, etc.
>
> During this work I realized creativecommons.xml is currently broken:
> search simply doesn't work.
>
> Currently this searchplugin is shipped with the following list of
> locales (using Aurora as reference): as, cy, eo, es-AR, eu, ga-IE, gl,
> ku, mk, mn, mr, rw, si, ta, ta-LK, te, th, tn, vi, zh-CN, zh-TW, zu.
>
> Another old searchplugin, dropped by en-US years ago, is still used by
> some locales: answers.xml (answer.com).
> List of locales shipping answers.xml (again, Aurora as reference): fa,
> ga-IE, ku, mk, rw, si, tn, zu.
>
> The only explanation for this is that these locales never updated
> their searchplugins after the initial set-up, and at that time they
> picked the same searchplugins used by en-US.
>
> The plan would be to remove these searchplugins from l10n builds, both
> Firefox Desktop and Metro, unless some locales have strong opinions
> against this decision.
>
> If your locale is currently shipping one of these 2 searchplugins, and
> you want to keep it, can you please explain the reasons for doing that?
>
> Thanks,
> Francesco
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[Rhoslyn Prys]

No problems from my point of view - cy. Thanks for the reminder.
Rhos