Marketing:Thunderbird Website

Tracking document for Thunderbird 3 web site localization

Who

• lead: rebron
• l10n leads: sipaq, pascalc
• QA lead: _Tsk_

What

This is the planning document/site to manage the web site content in Thunderbird for our 51 lang/locales. The items to be localized include:

• 1) download "landing" page: all locales
• 2) start page: all locales
• 3) what's new page: all locales
• 4) product page: on a per locale basis depending on the amount of work they represent (localized graphics? amount of text, screen shots...)
• 5) release notes: on an opt-in basis. Interested locales can localize the page
• 6) press release: on an opt-in basis. Interested locales can localize the page

We also need to check for account setup -- which email providers are included during account setup.

The start page must live on *.mozillamessaging.com. The ideal is support page and product pages all live on *.mozillamessaging.com. However, Community sites may point to support and product pages with the Thunderbird web site look and feel.

Release notes may not be finalized until RC1 specifically the known issues section.

General Planning

step	start date	end date	status
planning meeting
Create Tracking Bugs - do we need this?
Announce plan to localizers	9/30/2009	9/30/2009

Website

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
en-US content on staging	9/30/2009	-	11/24/2009
FR localization	10/5/2009	-	10/12/2009
Localization pages rest of countries	10/12/2009	-
QA tests website on staging (text, links etc)		-

Final Release Phase

step	start date	est. duration	end date	status
Build moves from trunk to staging		-
Build moves from staging to production		-
QA live site		-

Localization Checklist

Locale	Priority	Pages/URLs	Bug(s)	Completion
Afrikaans af	P2	1, 2, 3
Albanian sq	P3	1, 2, 3
Arabic ar	P2	1, 2, 3
Basque eu	P3	1, 2, 3
Belarusian be	P3	1, Not Done 2, Not Done 3 Not Done
Bengali (Bangladesh) BD	P2	1, 2, 3
Bulgarian bg	P3	1, 2, 3
Catalan ca	P3	1, 2, 3
Chinese (Simplified) zh-CN	P1	1, 2, 3
Chinese (Traditional) zh-TW	P2	1, 2, 3
Czech cs	P2	1, 2, 3
Dutch nl	P1	1, 2, 3
English (British) en-GB	P2	1, 2, 3
English (US) en-US	P1	1, 2, 3
Estonian et	P3	1, 2, 3
Finnish fi	P3	1, 2, 3
French fr	P1	1, 2, 3
Frisian fy-NL	P3	1, 2, 3
Galician gl	P3	1, 2, 3
Georgian ka	P3	1, 2, 3
German de	P1	1, 2, 3
Greek el	P3	1, 2, 3
Hebrew he	P3	1, 2, 3
Hungarian hu	P2	1, 2, 3
Icelandic is	P3	1, 2, 3
Indonesian id	P2	1, 2, 3
Irish ga-IE	P3	1, 2, 3
Italian it	P2	1, 2, 3
Japanese ja	P1	1, 2, 3
Korean ko	P2	1, 2, 3
Lithuanian lt	P3	1, 2, 3
Norwegian (Bokmal) nb-NO	P2	1, 2, 3
Norwegian (Nynorsk) nn-NO	P3	1, 2, 3
Polish pl	P1	1, 2, 3
Portuguese (Brazil) pt-BR	P1	1, 2, 3
Portuguese (Portugal) pt-PT	P2	1, 2, 3
Punjabi pa-IN	P2	1, 2, 3
Romanian ro	P2	1, 2, 3
Russian ru	P1	1, 2, 3
Serbian sr	P3	1, 2, 3
Sinhala si	P3	1, 2, 3
Slovak sk	P3	1, 2, 3
Spanish (Argentina) es-AR	P2	1, 2, 3
Spanish (Spain) es-ES	P1	1, 2, 3
Swedish sv-SE	P2	1, 2, 3
Tamil (Sri Lanka) ta-LK	P2	1, 2, 3
Turkish tr	P2	1, 2, 3
Ukrainian uk	P2	1, 2, 3
Vietnamese vi	P2	1, 2, 3

Note: time estimates are calculated in uninterrupted hour/days... Better use them for comparing relative effort.

Other Notes

Localization of the site depends on several factors:

1/ possibility to communicate to localizers via the webdashboard, mozillamessaging is now a separate project there so no problem

2/ locale detection and general locale support on mozillamessaging, we have added the minimum requirements for that with the 2.0.0.21 release and the move of the localized start pages from mozilla.com to mozillamessaging, minor releases now happen on mozillamessaging for locales

3/ simplified templates (header/footer) for locales, to be done but shouldn't take me much time, a day to make and test them

4/ creation of TB3 content for localizers, this is highly dependent on the creation of en-US content that will be used as a basis for translation, essentially:

   - new start page
   - landing page for all locales that serves as a home page as we do on mozilla.com
   - minimum set of pages (essentially features pages) for top locales which will have a more complete set of pages

5/ creation of a simplified landing sub page on mozilla-europe to also propose downloads there

6/ some administrative work as I have to open bugs for all localizers to give them access to mozillamessaging repo

7/ QA