Firefox l10n report (Aurora 45)

[Jeffrey Beatty]

Hello localizers!

Thank you all for your great work with Firefox 43 and 44. Here's an outline
of what is currently in Aurora this cycle (45) and what we accomplished
together last cycle:

*This cycle (Fx45)*

*Key dates: *

- *Beta (44) *sign offs for *already shipping locales* must be completed
before *13 January*.
- *Aurora (45)* sign offs must be completed before *25 January*.

*String breakdown:*

- Approximately *186* new strings landed in *Firefox Aurora desktop* and
*64* for *Fennec Aurora (unshared)*.
- devtools is now in its own root directory within l10n repos -
https://bugzil.la/1182722
- 40% of the new strings in desktop are in devtools and DOM. 17% are for
the Firefox Hello client. Please see
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/45.0a2/auroranotes/ for more info.
- 19% of the new strings in Fennec are related to content blocking. 41%
are for Fennec preferences. 8% are for the home screen. We'll see a couple
of Firefox Account strings land today (see
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1220904 ). Please see
https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/android/45.0a2/auroranotes/ for
more information.


*Last 2 cycles*

*Noteworth events (42):*

- *84%* of all locales shipped signed off updates of Firefox 42 on
desktop. This is a massive *17% increase* in locale coverage between
Firefox 41 and Firefox 42!
- *80%* of all locales shipped signed off updates of Fennec 42 on
Android. This is a *6% increase* in locale coverage between Fennec 41
and Fennec 42!


*Noteworthy events (43): *

- *66%* of all locales shipped signed off updates of Firefox 43 on
desktop. This is an *18% decrease* in locale coverage between Firefox 42
and Firefox 43.
- *62%* of all locales shipped signed off updates of Fennec 43 on
Android. This is an *18% decrease* in locale coverage between Fennec 42
and Fennec 43.
- We're also looking forward to seeing the *Lao* and *Romansh*
localization teams launch their first Mozilla localizations in Firefox for
Android soon.


Congratulations to everyone who signed off and shipped this last cycle! 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