User:Arky/L10n/Roadmap

This document describes the proposed Mozilla localization(l10n) activities for the 3 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 get in touch via email arky(at)gnu(dot)org(dot)in or chat with me on #L10n channel in Mozilla IRC.

Identify and Mentor New Locale Teams

The table tracks the new locale based on registration bugs.

Status of New Locale Teams

Lao, Khmer, Vietnamese & Burmese Locale Activity

Language(code)	Bugzilla Bug	Status	Comment
Burmese (my)	#662746 #631921	Inactive	Mentoring: thanyaw zinmin Key People: Ngwe Tun and Mr. Zaw Htut Community building and improve collaboration using the dedicated mailing-list
Lao (lo)	#309588 #449996	Inactive	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

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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
• Barcamp Phnom Penh 4

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

TODO

• Update CVS -> Hg :: Creating en-X-dude
• 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