1411109 - [ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ach / Acholi, enhancement)

Description

[Delphine Lebédel]

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

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. Acholi 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. Acholi 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 Acholi team and Delphine will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Delphine Lebédel]

Sorry for all the "Bosnian" in there... clearly didn't edit correctly ;)

Comment 2

[Delphine Lebédel]

Hi Denish (didn't find Alfred's bugzilla, please add him if he has an account),
I've opened this bug to add search plugins to Acholi on Firefox Android. Are there any you would recommend (see bug description for details on what those could be).
Thanks!

Comment 3

[Denish]

Hi Delphine, I think we can go with Google (mobile version), Yahoo and Bing.
Regards!

Comment 4

[Alfred kilama]

Hello Delphine, to add on what Dennish said i think we can add Wikipedia because Wikipedia is frequently one of the top results for people here who conduct online searches for information.  
Thanks.

Comment 5

[Delphine Lebédel]

(also spoke with team offline)

As per our conversations, I'll will add Google, Yahoo, Bing and Wikipedia. Thanks for your feedback!

Comment 6

[Delphine Lebédel]

Attachment: Bug 1411109- [ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi,

[ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193178/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193178/

Comment 7

[Delphine Lebédel]

Attachment: bug1411109.patch

Comment 8

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Comment on attachment 8922164 [details]
Bug 1411109- [ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi,

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193178/#review198458

::: commit-message-64bab:1
(Diff revision 1)
> +Bug 1411109

Please amend the commit message to be on one line, also set the reviewer in the commit message.

Comment 9

[Delphine Lebédel]

Comment on attachment 8922164 [details]
Bug 1411109- [ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi,

Review request updated; see interdiff: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193178/diff/1-2/

Comment 10

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Comment on attachment 8922164 [details]
Bug 1411109- [ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi,

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/193178/#review198664

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/1402f70041d9
[ach] Search engine setup for Firefox Mobile for Acholi, r=flod

Comment 12

[Delphine Lebédel]

Pushed: https://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ach/rev/bc6b9f36c3286d3732b509af04fef453adada88a

Comment 13

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

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/1402f70041d9