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

On Sep 7, 10:09 pm, Axel Hecht <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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

Hi Axel:

Count me in!

smo