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==Triggers==
==Triggers==
What triggers the process?
What triggers the process?
* new locale added to the tree
* new locale added to the tree
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===Dialog with providers===
===Dialog with providers===
This step's purpose is to:
This step's purpose is to:
* obtain written permission from providers to include their services in the default installation of Firefox (for search plugins, RSS readers, protocol handlers and the sample RSS feed)
* obtain written permission from providers to include their services in the default installation of Firefox (for search plugins, RSS readers, protocol handlers and the sample RSS feed).
* verify technical aspects of providers (search parameters, QA)
* verify technical aspects of providers (search parameters, QA).
* for the Getting Started page, we inform the websites that we link to about this fact.


===Implementation===
===Implementation===
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This is not meant to replace the Web Services Guidelines page but to enhance our own thinking and approach to evaluate these based on experience from many interesting situations that have come up in different locales.
This is not meant to replace the Web Services Guidelines page but to enhance our own thinking and approach to evaluate these based on experience from many interesting situations that have come up in different locales.


* kr - daum RSS reader (requiring the user to bundle reader with another service)
* ko - daum RSS reader (requiring the user to bundle reader with another service)
* Occitan sample RSS feed (culturally relevant, even though doesn't update often)
* Occitan sample RSS feed (culturally relevant, even though doesn't update often)
* ga-IE getting started page (Esperanto)
* ga-IE getting started page
* eo getting started page
* search plugins are always unique - we try to keep creative commons in most locales, often times locale have more unique specific local search or knowledge search that are dependent on what's culturally relevant. lots of interesting examples (zh-CN, et, lv)
* search plugins are always unique - we try to keep creative commons in most locales, often times locale have more unique specific local search or knowledge search that are dependent on what's culturally relevant. lots of interesting examples (zh-CN, et, lv)


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We track every change that is made for each release in bugs and in wiki or Google documents. The reason that we do this is to enable any one to be able to reveiw what has happened in any particular locale over time.  
We track every change that is made for each release in bugs and in wiki or Google documents. The reason that we do this is to enable any one to be able to reveiw what has happened in any particular locale over time.  


* Firefox 3 https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_Review
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox_web_services_status Firefox 3.0.x and later]
* Firefox 2 https://intranet.mozilla.org/Trademark_L10n_Review-Firefox2#Firefox_Search_Plug-In_Review_Document|
* [https://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_Review Firefox 3.0]
 
* [https://intranet.mozilla.org/Trademark_L10n_Review-Firefox2#Firefox_Search_Plug-In_Review_Document| Firefox 2]
==Stuff not to forget==
* email templates for outreach
** Protocol handlers
** Search parameters and permission
** RSS Feed
** RSS readers
** Getting started
* significant market research links for decisions (Alexa, Feed validator)
* outcomes of each step
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