L10n/Firefox 3.6 Start Page

See Websites/Firefox_3.6_Start_Page for complete project details.

Project owners

• Project Manager: Christie Koehler (ckoehler)
• Project Owner: Laura Forrest (lforrest)

Project scope outline

• What is the estimated length of localizable content (in number of strings and words)?
  • 10-20

• What is your project's key functionality?
  • to encourage users to upgrade to the current version of firefox
  • host the start page for firefox per our contract with Google

• Where will your project live?
  • start.mozilla.org

• What are your target locales?
  • All of the locales that were supported in Firefox 3.6 and below. ckoehler is working on a discrete list.

• What is your estimated rate of L10n expansion (i.e., approx. number of L10ns you hope to add each quarter)?
  • We would like to launch wtih all locales complete.

• What are your available resources?

• What is your project's expected life-cycle (i.e., short-term/long-term)?
  • long-term, although with dwindling usage

• What L10n requirements have you already defined?
  • see above regarding target locales

Release schedule

Identify the following as part of development phases:

• Dates outlining development phases for the first localized releases.
  • 3/29 Design Complete
  • 3/30 Implementation Begins
  • 4/4 String Freeze
  • 4/5 Begin L10N
  • 4/24 Launch

• Cost in days for each development phase.

Timeline to implementation

Complete timeline: http://bit.ly/ys1mZd