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== Engineering Changes == | == Engineering Changes == | ||
Jumping right in to it. | Jumping right in to it. As everybodies head is wired slightly differently, here are three ways to look at it: | ||
All English strings that we | An English string exposed for l10n begins its life cycle in mozilla-central, and lives and dies until it merges to Aurora. At that point, it's frozen until the end of its lifetime, which comes when we stop shipping any version that has a code path using that string. As long as code on any of aurora/beta/release/esr use a particular string, it can't be removed. | ||
''Or, in sets:'' | |||
All English strings that we use in any shipping version (aside Nightly) on any release channel are in the hg repository for aurora and central. | |||
* A string in ESR is also in aurora and central. | * A string in ESR is also in aurora and central. | ||
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In reverse, | In reverse, | ||
* central has all the strings from central, aurora, beta, release, esr; | * central has all the en-US strings from central, aurora, beta, release, esr; | ||
* aurora has all the strings from aurora, beta, release, esr; | * aurora has all the en-US strings from aurora, beta, release, esr; | ||
* beta has all the strings from beta, release; | * beta has all the en-US strings from beta, release; | ||
* release has all the strings from release; | * release has all the en-US strings from release; | ||
* esr has all the strings from esr. | * esr has all the en-US strings from esr. | ||
''What do we win?'' | ''What do we win?'' | ||
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=== For Localizers === | === For Localizers === | ||
Localizers will work on one repository, with compare-locales giving results against ESR, release, beta, and aurora. Instead of landing strings in different repositories, the l10n work lands in one repository, with the different en-US repos giving information about the urgency of the strings in question. | Localizers will work on one repository per locale, with compare-locales giving results against ESR, release, beta, and aurora. Instead of landing strings in different repositories, the l10n work lands in one repository, with the different en-US repos giving information about the urgency of the strings in question. | ||
== Localization Tool Changes == | == Localization Tool Changes == | ||