Looking for participants: Discuss localizations falling behind on the rapid release schedule

Axel Hecht <[email protected]> Wed, 07 Sep 2011 22:09:39 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.mozilla.ui
Message-ID <rJmdnYPLgeEZUvrTnZ2dnUVZ_tOdnZ2d__16014.0707427219$1315426331$gmane$org@mozilla.org>
Hi,

to frame the topic:

We have a few localization efforts that don't keep up with the rapid 
localization process. There are no easy answers to keep them up-to-date, 
so we need to have a discussion when we flag locales.

I'm looking for people from both product (Firefox/Fennec at least) and 
l10n that want to participate in this discussion.

I hope to have a limited group of people doing a small number of conf 
calls and mail exchanges on this. That way, we shouldn't scope-creep the 
discussion, and get to an OK compromise at large.

Why now? So far, the biggest UI changes have been around about: urls and 
devtools, so I've made the call myself to just continue to ship for 
desktop. I didn't investigate mobile. With Firefox 8, we'll see a dialog 
on whether you want to keep your system-installed addons, AFAICT. That's 
a good data point to make sure we balance the UX between a fully 
localized browser, a browser with mixed in English strings, or a 
migration of the users of those locales to ... well, what to convert to 
is subject of this discussion as well.

RSVP..

Axel