1413464 - [oc] Search engine setup for Firefox for Occitan

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: oc / Occitan, enhancement)

Description

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

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

We'll do this in three phases: First, the localization team and flod (Francesco Lodolo) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good set of search providers. We'll need the localization team's input on this. The guidelines for making recommendations are found on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization>. 

We currently use this set for en-US, to which we can fall back in the case of lacking localized alternatives:
Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, Twitter, Wikipedia

After we decided on a particular search engine, flod will contact the owner and ask for permission and for specifics, like proper search flags.

Once we have a specification on what the search engines for Occitan should look like, flod and the localization team will work on an implementation on that. flod will create and attach patches for the desired changes and get them reviewed. After a successful review, flod will land them.

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

The Occitan team and flod will be driving this bug to completion.

Comment 1

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Francesco Lodolo [:flod] from comment #0)
> We currently use this set for en-US, to which we can fall back in the case
> of lacking localized alternatives:
> Google, Yahoo!, Bing, Amazon, DuckDuckGo, Twitter, Wikipedia

Quentin, based also on bug 1413376, what about this list:

google
yahoo.fr
bing
amazon.fr
DuckDuckGo
Twitter
Wikipedia (oc)

Comment 2

[Quenti]

Can we have a fallback in fr,es,it before en-US?

Comment 3

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Quenti from comment #2)
> Can we have a fallback in fr,es,it before en-US?

For Google, Bing and DDG, it will pick the language based on your settings (Accept Languages, or Language preferences if you're logged in into a Google Account).

For all other searchplugins (Amazon, Yahoo, Wikipedia), we need to pick one language.

Note that we can also decide to remove Amazon if you want (not Wikipedia).

Comment 4

[Quenti]

Yes I was meaning setting the accept-languages header to oc,fr,es,it for it's the second language of people where Occitan is spoken.

Comment 5

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Quenti from comment #4)
> Yes I was meaning setting the accept-languages header to oc,fr,es,it for
> it's the second language of people where Occitan is spoken.

Ah, that's a string in Pontoon. I've just updated it
https://pontoon.mozilla.org/oc/firefox/toolkit/chrome/global/intl.properties/?string=81017

Does this list make sense?

google
yahoo.fr
bing
amazon.fr
DuckDuckGo
Twitter
Wikipedia (oc)
Wiktionary (oc)

Comment 6

[Quenti]

Yes, brilliant!
As you asked, without amazone all other engine will be upper on the list, which I think is an good idea.

Comment 7

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

(In reply to Quenti from comment #6)
> As you asked, without amazone all other engine will be upper on the list,
> which I think is an good idea.

OK, let's remove Amazon then. Will have a patch ready shortly.

Comment 8

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Attachment: Bug 1413464 - [oc] Search engine setup for Firefox for Occitan

I've also renamed wikipediaro.xml to wikipedia-ro.xml, since it's the only file without an hyphen.

Review commit: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/195896/diff/#index_header
See other reviews: https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/195896/

Comment 9

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

region.properties is already up to date in the l10n repo.

Comment 10

[Delphine Lebédel [:delphine - Use needinfo]]

Comment on attachment 8924654 [details]
Bug 1413464 - [oc] Search engine setup for Firefox for Occitan

https://reviewboard.mozilla.org/r/195896/#review201118

Comment 11

[Pulsebot]

Pushed by [e-mail]:
https://hg.mozilla.org/integration/autoland/rev/e982afd4f073
[oc] Search engine setup for Firefox for Occitan r=delphine

Comment 12

[Narcis Beleuzu [:NarcisB]]

https://hg.mozilla.org/mozilla-central/rev/e982afd4f073