User:Arky/L10n/Roadmap

This document describes the proposed Mozilla localization(l10n) activities for the three-month period starting June 27, 2011. You can track the status of these activities here.

Please leave your suggestions and comments in the discussion section. To offer help and collaboration contact me via email at arky(at)gnu(dot)org(dot)in or chat with me on #L10n channel in Mozilla IRC.

Identify and Mentor New Locale Teams

The following table(s) can be used to track the status of new locale teams I am mentoring. Malay(ms), Lao(lo), Khmer(kh) and Burmese(my-mm) are new locale teams. Though Vietnamese(vi) is not a new locale, I closely work with them to do community building and translation sprints.

Status of New Locale Teams

Malay,Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese & Burmese Locale Activity

Language(code)	Bugzilla Bug	Status	Comment
Bahasa Melayu[ms-MY]	#286080	Active	Mentoring the L10n team. M.Syafiq leading the effort. Translations are being done on Narro Visit the Malay Team page for more information.
Burmese (my)	#662746 #631921	Active	Supporting thanyaw zinmin, Lionslayer, Rachel et al Key People: Ngwe Tun and Mr. Zaw Htut Community building and improve collaboration using the dedicated mailing-list
Lao (lo)	#309588 #449996	Inactive	Supporting Anousak, Valaxay start the L10n team. Lao Team Page Contacted Anousak Souphavanh , Sisiang Lee,Minaxay Philavong, Houmphanh (lao.net) and other contacts.
Khmer (km)	#551886	NoTeam	Connected with vannak. Planning a L10n sprint at next BarCamp Phnom Penh
Vietnamese(vi)		Active	Goal: Make it official release for next Firefox release Activities: Community building, Wiki revisions and sprints for new L10n members

Other Locale's that needs mentoring

Language(code)	Bugzilla Bug	Status	Comment
Hong Kong (zh-HK)	#486686	NoTeam	Contacted Ricky Kung
Dzongkha (dzo)			Contacted Pema Geyleg & Tomkast
Tibetan (bo)			Contacted Tashi Wangdue

[1] [ http://hg.mozilla.org/users/axel_mozilla.com/fx-triage/raw-file/default/new-requests.html New Locale Requests]

Reach out to some of organizations that work in local language computing. Encourage them to work closely with upstream Mozilla L10n teams.

Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Project

Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) Project has translated numerous FLOSS software, they offer firefox builds in local languages.

Note: Most of the Indian language L10n projects are inactive except for handful languages (viz Gujarathi, Hindi, Kanada, Malayalam, Marathi, Telugu,Maithili, Oriya, Tamil). We not only need to bring new locale's but infuse fresh life into already existing teams.

• Assamese
• Hindi
• Kannada
• Malayalam
• Marathi
• Oriya
• Punjabi
• Tamil
• Telugu
• Urdu
• Gujarati
• Sanskrit
• Bodo
• Dogri
• Maithili
• Nepali
• Bangla
• Kashmiri
• Konkani
• Manipuri
• Santali
• Sindhi

L10n teams exists for the languages names that are striked out

PAN L10n Project

PAN L10n Project works with partner countries to develop local language standards. The PAN L10n Support network could be good platform to identify and mentor new locale's.

• Bangla
• Dzongkha
• Khmer
• Lao
• Mongolian
• Nepali
• Pashto
• Sinhala
• Urdu

Organize Localization Sprints For New Locale Teams

• Sprints for new localizations contributors of new locale's.
• Prepare handouts for the sprints based L10n mozilla wiki pages.
• Conduct L10n Bug Days with the of goal finishing specific tasks. (Vietnamese locale)

Proposed Sprints

• Vietnamese L10n Bug Day
• BarCamp Malayasia
• Lao Team workout Aug-Sept 2011
• Barcamp Phnom Penh 4
• Burmese (my) L10n sprint

Provide Support For New Locale Teams via Dedicated Mailing-list

• Follow-up the Mailing-list setup with Stas? (bug # )
• Update the mozilla wiki pages, provide links to the mailing-list
• Create stocks responses
• Dashboard of new locale and status of mentoring process
• Listing of L10n mentors/resource persons by region

Provide Draft Revisions of L10n Wiki Pages

Completed Wiki Pages

Wiki Page	Type of Change	Revision
L10n on Mercurial	Updated Repo Names (Thanks Standard9 for changes)	1 2

Drafts

1. Create a new locale Setup 2. As admin, browser to component 'firefox' and select import tab 3. In Import Tab select import from a project 4. Now the project will be populated with files to be localized.

To submit the files, download the zip file and add it your local hg and push upstream.

TODO

• Create a new localization
  • Replace: mozilla-1.9.2 -> mozilla-aurora
  • Replace l10n-mozilla-1.9.2 -> l10n-central
  • Push to personal bitbucket account instead of mozillal10n
  • Simplify to command-line way or Narro way (instead of Plain-text and Komodo edit)
  • Remove personal paths /usr/stas etc..
  • Add building language packs for testing
  • Add using silme tools to merge firefox 3.x language packs
• Localizing With Narro
• Update Creating en-X-dude page
• Narro :: How to start a new locale using Narro
• Bitbucket :: How to use a bitbucket repo for local contributions
• Checklist :: How to check your L10n repo with compare-locales/ How to update missing strings in your repo
• Working with Firefox 3.5 Language Packs: How to merge content from Firefox 3.x language packs