1407849 - [bs] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Bosnian

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: bs / Bosnian, enhancement)

Description

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

We want to ship Firefox Mobile with a good list of search engines for Bosnian.

We're going to work towards this in three phases. First, the localization team and the l10n drivers will look at the market for the language and come up with a good set of search providers. Bosnian team, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on <https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Productization_guide>. 

For en-US, we currently use this set, to which we can fall back in the case of lacking localized alternatives:

> Google (mobile version), Yahoo, Bing, Amazon, Twitter, Wikipedia (slightly different to desktop, 32x32 icon)

We may also want to go with just a subset of the en-US engines, if that's more appropriate for the local market.

Once we decide to use a particular search engine (and we test it on a mobile device), l10n drivers will contact the owner and ask for permission in the cases where it's needed, and for specifics like proper search flags. Bosnian team, if this is needed we'll likely need your help to at least get the contact information.

For search engines that we already ship with on desktop and that you would like to include in mobile as well, the permission is not needed.  Consider using a mobile version of the engine if one is available.  Also, please make yourself familiar with instructions regarding the <Description/> element at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Integrated_Search_Instructions>. For mobile, we'll want 64x64 size images, too.

Once we have a specification on what the search engines for Bosnian should look like, Delphine and the localization team will work on an implementation on that. Delphine will create and attach patches for the desired changes and get them reviewed. After a successful review, :delphine will land them. Bosnian team, if you're interested, you could create the patches, too. You'd ask :delphine for review on those before landing. 

Please don't commit any modifications in browser/searchplugins to the hg repository without a patch reviewed by Delphine or someone else appointed by the l10n drivers. The data here is sensitive to users and our search partners, thus the extra care here.

The Bosnian team and Delphine will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Kerim: can you, or someone in your team, advise on a subset of mobile search engines for Bosnian please? thanks!

Comment 2

[Kerim Kalamujic]

As far as we are concerned, we can use the following list of search engines:

Google (mobile version), Yahoo, Bing, Twitter, Wikipedia (https://bs.wikipedia.org/).

Comment 3

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Ok thanks Kerim, I'll work on this shortly

Comment 4

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Attachment: Bug 1407849 - [bs] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Bosnian

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193158/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193158/

Comment 5

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Attachment: region.properties

Comment 6

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Comment on attachment 8922155 [details]
Bug 1407849 - [bs] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Bosnian

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193158/#review198456

Comment 7

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/5c754216e644
[bs] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Bosnian r=flod

Comment 8

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Also landed region.properties
https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/bs/rev/9e50f9cdc140967c7f4a9fc584947d880cbf7b5d

Comment 9

[Sebastian Hengst [:aryx] (needinfo me if it's about an intermittent or backout)]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/5c754216e644

Comment 10

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Comment on attachment 8922158 [details] [diff] [review]
region.properties

Review of attachment 8922158 [details] [diff] [review]:
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I completely missed that this file was in the wrong folder :-\ (mobile vs mobile/chrome)
https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/bs/rev/bb7d9e79778642799b9850130630e4ec45de0dd6