1304743 - Drop Belarusian (be) from Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: be / Belarusian, defect)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

This locale hasn't seen any activity in almost 2 years, and we failed to revive the community effort.

The plan is to stop building Firefox Beta and Firefox Release, and move existing users to Russian.

I think it would also be a good idea to stop building Firefox Aurora, and remove Belarusian from product-details, but I'm open to different opinions.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #0)
> I think it would also be a good idea to stop building Firefox Aurora, and
> remove Belarusian from product-details, but I'm open to different opinions.
Thoughts?

Comment 2

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

Agreed

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

@Delphine
I think we should drop Belarusian also from Fennec at this point (both maemo-locales and all-locales). Mind filing a bug for it and block this one?

Comment 4

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Thanks flod! Opened up Bug 1307995, will work on patch soon. Removing ni

Comment 5

[meequz]

Hi! I just know about dropping the support. Is there a lot of localization work? I can do it if it is not very much day work. I already a Belarusian translator of qBittorrent, MATE Desktop and several smaller projects.

Comment 6

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to meequz from comment #5)
> Hi! I just know about dropping the support. Is there a lot of localization
> work? I can do it if it is not very much day work. I already a Belarusian
> translator of qBittorrent, MATE Desktop and several smaller projects.

Hi, thanks for your interest. This is definitely not the right place for having this discussion though.

If you're interested in contributing, please send an email to this mailing list and we can discuss the details
https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-l10n

As a general rule, we need a consistent effort and a community behind it, to avoid being back to this kind of situation in a few months. The amount of strings to localize is not small, especially considering that it's been neglected for a few years now.

Comment 7

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

All dependencies are fixed, we should be good to close here.