Website CMS

Overview

Mozilla staff from the US, EU and Japan met during the Firefox Summit to discuss and plan for the development of a content management system that could serve as the front end for localizers to more easily participate in web site updates.

Goals

Have both in-product pages and marketing web pages accessible for localization via a CMS so that the barrier to participation is lower for less technical localization volunteers

Current Issues

SVN access
User accounts for: leaders, localizers, proofreaders

Requirements

Publish same page for all languages with one click
Publish files outside of language subdirectory
Push live request enabled within CMS
Push live an entire language set
Ability to edit pages in-browser
RSS feeds of changes to pages/keep informed of changes
Wiki capability for bug edits
Visual view of changes
Ability to easily share changes made in master file with localizers
Ability to email all active members from within CMS
Dynamic news/announcements
Blog posting capability - Wiki syntax/HTML both supported
Image manager
LDAP logins
Simplified front end for Bugzilla as a solution for tracking change requests (would require integration with Bugzilla Japan)

Next steps

Expand and verify requirements
Look for existing software we can use/modify to fit needs
Setup a timeline for development

Team

Wil Clouser
Pascal Chevrel
Kohei Yoshino
Paul Kim