User:Arky/L10n/Roadmap

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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

Table 1.1
Language(code) Bugzilla Bug Status Comment
Burmese (my) #662746 #631921 Community building and improve collaboration using the dedicated mailing-list
Loas Need more local contacts, seeking people who are committed for L10n
Khmer (km) #551886 Planning a L10n sprint, The Mekhala/Firefox Moyura/Thunderbird project forks definitely splintered L10n efforts.
Vietanmese(vi) Goal: Make it official release for next Firefox release

Activities: Community building, Wiki revisions and sprints for new L10n members

Hong Kong (zh-HK) #486686 ....


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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

Organize 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


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

  • 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