HALT LOCALIZING Re: [ANNOUNCE] Localizing Firefox Home Application
Seth Bindernagel
I have just been alerted by the developer team that we are *not* string
frozen.
With all the bugs in place for the application, we will be ready to go
when the team says go.
Thanks.
Seth
Danishka Navin wrote:
> Hi Seth,
>
> opt-in Sinhala (si)
>
> Danishka
>
> On Fri, Jul 30, 2010 at 8:59 PM, Seth Bindernagel <se...@mozilla.com
> <mailto:se...@mozilla.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
>
> The Firefox Home developer team (Dan and Ragavan copied here)
> would like to open its project for localization. This will be a
> one-offf experience for us that will require doing most of our
> work in text-editors and Bugzilla due to the unique nature of
> Apple's localization process.
>
> I have begun to file tracking bugs for the project, with one
> master tracking bug
> (https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=583241) and
> per-locale trackers blocking that.
>
> We will localize the application, the Mozilla-based website
> describing the app, the iTunes App Store description, and some
> other pieces. Bugs will be filed for each, blocking your locale's
> tracker. In each bug, we will explain what is necessary including
> things like due dates. In all likelihood, I will follow up with
> posts to this newsgroup with other information.
>
> The Firefox Home team specified a few locales that they would like
> to have based on immediate demand they have received. Those
> locales include:
>
> * de - German
> * es-ES - Spanish
> * fr French
> * it - Italian
> * ja - Japanese
> * nl- Dutch
> * zh-CN Chinese
>
> If your locale is not listed and you would like to participate,
> please email me and I will ask the dev team (Dan and Ragavan) if
> the iPhone platform allows for localization into your language.
> Dan and Ragavan will also be tracking the bugs and will be
> available alongside the l10n-drivers to help answer any technical
> questions about the work, testing, etc.
>
> We are targeting the Firefox Home 1.1 release, which is scheduled
> for approval and release in the next 4-5 weeks, sometime in early
> September.
>
> I can answer questions as they come up, just ask. If I don't have
> an answer, it's probably due to the unique nature of this project.
>
> FYI - you are all awesome.
>
> Best regards,
>
> Seth
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Ragavan Srinivasan
Apologies for the confusion here.
The version of the app we want to localize is not string frozen yet. We
are targeting string freeze by end of next week. We haven't yet decided
if we'll call it 1.0.2 or 1.1 - but that's the version we want to target
for localization of the *app*.
We would like to make the *current* version of the app (1.0.1) available
worldwide. The app itself will be in English, but in order to ensure a
good install and setup experience, we would really like some help
localizing the following *content* (not the app):
* Firefox Home web page
* The description that goes on the iTunes store
* Support articles for Firefox Home (with help from our SUMO community
as well)
* Instruction email
We will work with Seth to get pointers to all of this content and open
up bugs to track these.
Let me know if you have any questions and sorry again about the confusion.
And as Seth already mentioned, this is a pretty unique project for us,
so there will be some bumps along the way - but with an awesome
community like ours, I'm sure we'll do an amazing job.
Regards,
Ragavan