Marketing:Thunderbird Website
Tracking document for Thunderbird 3 web site localization
Who
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) download thank you page: all locales
- 3) product page: on a per locale basis depending on the amount of work they represent (localized graphics? amount of text, screen shots...)
- 4) start page: all locales
- 5) release notes
- 6) press release: same as sub-pages
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.
General Planning
| step | start date | end date | status |
|---|---|---|---|
| planning meeting | 2009-09-14 | 2009-09-14 | Complete (only held blocker discussion) |
| Create Tracking Bugs - see below | 2009-09-08 | 2009-09-14 | Complete |
| Ensure in-tree extensions (Venkman, DOMi) have correct maxVersion numbers. DOMI has general rs=sdwilsh for update to current version in trunk. |
2009-09-14 | 2009-09-14 | Complete (DOMI 3.1a1pre, Venkman 3.0) |
| Heads up to QA testers | 2009-09-14 | 2009-09-14 | Complete |
Tracking Bugs
Website & Press
| step | start date | est. duration | end date | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Website changes on trunk | 9/21/2009 | - | 9/21/2009 | Completed |
| File Bug for setting up website redirects (live.momo.com start, what's new etc) | 9/21/2009 | - | 9/21/2009 | Completed |
| Website pushed to staging | 9/22/2009 | - | 9/22/2009 | Completed |
| Prepare announcement texts for mailing lists | 09/22/2009 | - | 09/22/2009 | Completed |
| QA tests website on staging (text, links etc) | 9/22/2009 | - | 9/22/2009 | Completed |
Final Release Phase
| step | start date | est. duration | end date | status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| QA and release driver approve start of final release phase via thunderbird-drivers. | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Complete |
| Build submits patch to mirrorstentry to MoCo IT | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Build moves build to release area | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Build pushes download files to mirrors (rsyncd-mozilla-current.exclude) | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Wait for bouncer to pick up files | 2009-09-22 | 1.5 hours for 25% | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Build pushes content from stage/ to production/ so that releasenotes, firstrun pages, early_releases, beta pages go live on mozillamessaging.com | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| QA download links and checks release notes, start page, what's new pages options from within TB - on en-US and non en-US locales. | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Build pushes remaining content from stage/ to production/ | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Build pushes update snippets to beta channel, fully-throttled so that it is only available for manual updates. | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| QA spot checks production site and updates on beta channel | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
| Announce release (see locations below), and check the results | 2009-09-22 | - | 2009-09-22 | Completed |
Release Announcements
Announce to:
- mozilla.dev.apps.thunderbird
- mozilla.dev.planning
- mozilla.dev.l10n
- mozilla.dev.apps.calendar
- mozilla.support.thunderbird
- mozilla.announce.prerelease (must be subscribed, see moderator info).
- About:mozilla
- Spread Thunderbird (poke #spreadthunderbird for getting post on the front page).
- Blog
Localization Checklist
| Locale | Priority | Pages/URLs | Bug(s) | Completion |
| Afrikaans | ||||
| Albanian | ||||
| Arabic | ||||
| Basque | ||||
| Belarusian | ||||
| Bengali (Bangladesh) | ||||
| Bulgarian | ||||
| Catalan | ||||
| Chinese (Simplified) | P1 | |||
| Chinese (Traditional) | P1 | |||
| Czech | ||||
| Danish | ||||
| Dutch | ||||
| English (British) | ||||
| English (US) | P1 | |||
| Estonian | ||||
| Finnish | ||||
| French | P1 | |||
| Frisian | ||||
| Galician | ||||
| Georgian | ||||
| German | P1 | |||
| Greek | ||||
| Gujarati | ||||
| Hebrew | ||||
| Hungarian | ||||
| Icelandic | ||||
| Indonesian | ||||
| Irish | ||||
| Italian | P2 | |||
| Japanese | P1 | |||
| Korean | P2 | |||
| Lithuanian | ||||
| Norwegian (Bokmal) | ||||
| Norwegian (Nynorsk) | ||||
| Polish | ||||
| Portuguese (Brazil) | P2 | |||
| Portuguese (Portugal) | ||||
| Punjabi | ||||
| Romanian | ||||
| Russian | ||||
| Serbian | ||||
| Sinhala | ||||
| Slovak | ||||
| Spanish (Argentina) | ||||
| Spanish (Spain) | P2 | |||
| Swedish | ||||
| Tamil (Sri Lanka) | ||||
| Turkish | ||||
| Ukrainian | ||||
| Vietnamese |
Note: time estimates are calculated in uninterrupted hour/days... Better use them for comparing relative effort.
- 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