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Our [[L10n:Home_Page|L10n]] objective is to help you | Our [[L10n:Home_Page|L10n]] objective is to help you launch as many new languages/locales as we can. This wiki page is meant to give you an overview of what’s involved from start to finish with links to more detail. | ||
I am always looking for feedback to make this page better, so if you have something to say good or bad please post to the forum or [mailto:mic@mozilla.com mail us]. | |||
=Step 1, Volunteer= | =Step 1, Volunteer= | ||
[[L10n:Localization_Process_Start| STARTs]] when there is a realization that Mozilla is missing another language and there is volunteer who is willing to do the work. The simple steps are: | |||
* Join an existing team or start a new one (if there isn't one already working on your language) | |||
* Register, so people know you are working on it and can contact you | |||
* Check out the en-US tree | |||
* Clone it | |||
* Edit the resulting tree to translate all the strings (perhaps with tools) | |||
* Run some tool which bundles up the result into a language pack | |||
* Ship it to some friends to test it | |||
* Check in the result, and iterate. | |||
=Step 2, Heavy Lifting= | =Step 2, Heavy Lifting= | ||
This is the major preparation and building work that gets your language ready for users. There are many stages however we work with you to get your build to users as early as possible. In fact, we recently changed our build process to enable you to release often and early by building language pack xpi's which allow users to use an existing version of Firefox and download your language pack xpi to change their browser into your language. You can find more details on this as you review the [[L10n:Localization_Process_Middle| Building]] stage of the process. By now you've searched to see if you're joining an existing team or creating something new and if you're entering this stage you've concluded that you are starting something new. This also means you should be reading or have read a lot of the documents to give you an idea of what's involved technically to build the Mozilla product in the language of your choice. | This is the major preparation and building work that gets your language ready for users. There are many stages however we work with you to get your build to users as early as possible. In fact, we recently changed our build process to enable you to release often and early by building language pack xpi's which allow users to use an existing version of Firefox and download your language pack xpi to change their browser into your language. You can find more details on this as you review the [[L10n:Localization_Process_Middle| Building]] stage of the process. By now you've searched to see if you're joining an existing team or creating something new and if you're entering this stage you've concluded that you are starting something new. This also means you should be reading or have read a lot of the documents to give you an idea of what's involved technically to build the Mozilla product in the language of your choice. | ||