Improving the Thunderbird Mail Start Page for Thunderbird 2

Scott MacGregor

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Feb 1, 2007, 7:40:10 PM2/1/07

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The Thunderbird mail start page is woefully out of date. It links to features that were new
in Thunderbird 1.0 and 1.5. Nothing about all the new features available to users in Thunderbird 2.

We'd like to replace the existing Feature items in the start page with a new list of features. It'd be really nice to highlight the new Thunderbird 2 features in the start page. But fixing this would require us to break the string freeze and is something we are reluctant to do without further conversation with all the localizers.

For more details see:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=368744

Our proposed l10n string freeze / code complete date is February 27th, 26 days away. If we all agree to change the start page, we'd be changing about 5 strings and 5 urls in start.dtd. I've posted an example patch in the bug so we can all see what would be changing.

What do you all think of breaking the string freeze to update the start page?

Thanks,

-Team Thunderbird

Pavel Franc

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Feb 2, 2007, 10:19:19 AM2/2/07

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> What do you all think of breaking the string freeze to update the start
> page?

I do agree. This is worth breaking the rule.

Pavel Franc
Czech l10n leader

Hasse

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Feb 2, 2007, 2:18:13 PM2/2/07

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In article <2IOdnVCipNRIGl_Y...@mozilla.org>, Scott
MacGregor wrote...

> What do you all think of breaking the string freeze to update the start page?

That sounds reasonable to me.

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Hasse
sv-SE l10n team

Mad Maks

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Feb 3, 2007, 4:28:01 AM2/3/07

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Scott MacGregor schreef:

> What do you all think of breaking the string freeze to update the start
> page?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Team Thunderbird

It is ok by me.

Tim Maks
nl-NL

Josesun

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Feb 3, 2007, 12:09:13 PM2/3/07

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I think it's ok. We can do it.

Jose Sun
zh-TW owner

Ricardo Palomares Martinez

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Feb 3, 2007, 6:30:05 PM2/3/07

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Scott MacGregor escribió:

> We'd like to replace the existing Feature items in the start page with a
> new list of features. It'd be really nice to highlight the new
> Thunderbird 2 features in the start page. But fixing this would require
> us to break the string freeze and is something we are reluctant to do
> without further conversation with all the localizers.

I really hope you are not waiting for all localizers to give you OK.
:-) Anyway, I agree. Looking into the bug I think that fixing the
strings in the product will be fairly easy, and translating the
webpages could be done without having to hurry, if I get it right.

Ricardo

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Scott MacGregor

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Feb 6, 2007, 2:27:42 PM2/6/07

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Ricardo Palomares Martinez wrote:
> I really hope you are not waiting for all localizers to give you OK.
> :-) Anyway, I agree. Looking into the bug I think that fixing the
> strings in the product will be fairly easy, and translating the
> webpages could be done without having to hurry, if I get it right.

Ok, thanks for the feedback everyone! Let's go for it. I'll get the en-US strings and the urls finalized in the next 24 hours so we can get the ball rolling on this for the translations.

Thanks everyone!

-Scott