596987 - Compatibility Reporter extension and its AMO page in desperate need of better localization

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Compatibility Tools, defect)

Description

[Dave Garrett]

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/15003/
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/15003/

Both have the same short and long descriptions in English.

I, a guy making an extension in my spare time as a hobby, have my descriptions in multiple languages for Flagfox. Mozilla apparently doesn't?

Today I got an email via the support email address I provided for Flagfox, and it was in German. I don't speak German. I wish humans had a genetic memory for languages and I could just call upon the half of mine that has German lineage and be fluent, or at least half fluent, but I can't. Thus I resort to Google Translate. Part of the my reply pointed to the Mozilla Add-on Compatibility Reporter as the current "Official" recommended way to force installs... and its page is only available in English.

(I'll get a compatible version of Flagfox up today, I think, but this report is another matter)

I know for a fact that there are Germans somewhere here, which makes this a little sad, I'm sorry to say. :(

Please, can this extension get its short and long descriptions translated into a minimum of the following:
German, French, Spanish, & Chinese

Now, I thought this was where this bug report would end, but no, I just checked your chrome.manifest for version 0.6 of this thing. Your included locales are:
en-US cs it ja nl pl sk sl uk vi

No German or French. Really?

You support Italian, but the page still doesn't:
https://addons.mozilla.org/it/firefox/addon/15003/

Please consider this a meta complaint about this extension's apparently lax support of l10n.

At a minimum, please drag a German speaking developer over to add translations to AMO and the extension ASAP. :/

Comment 1

[Dave Garrett]

Please, nobody consider this bug fixed until both the AMO page and current version of the extension support a minimum of the prior noted: de, fr, es, zh

Comment 2

[Dave Garrett]

I don't see this extension on Babelzilla.org. The Add-on Collector is and thus has loads more locales, including German... though its page is also not:
https://addons.mozilla.org/de/firefox/addon/11950/

Comment 3

[Dave Garrett]

CCing fligtar, as he's listed on BZ for the Collector. Can you do something about this Compatibility addon, and also, what about the AMO page for the Collector?

Comment 4

[Brian King [:kinger]]

Collector is bug 550470, it would be great to do both in one sweep.

WRT locales supported in the Compatibility Reporter, we currently have:

cs  en-US  it  ja  nl  pl  sk  sl  uk  vi

Comment 5

[Dave Garrett]

(In reply to comment #4)
I already have that same list, just with en-US first, in comment 0. ;)

Comment 6

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

Thanks for filing this.  In an effort to not drown in existing reports we're aggressively closing old enhancements and bugs to get the buglist to a reasonable level so we can scope and process bug sprints in an effective manner.

Patches for this bug are still welcome.