1415273 - [dt-onboarding] Support additional languages for newsletter subscription

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1519018

(DevTools :: General, enhancement, P3)

Description

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

For now the newsletter subscription doesn't allow users to choose their language. For the 58 beta experiment, we could try and target only english-speaking profiles. But long term we should include a select to let users pick a different language.

See for instance https://www.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/developer/ (bottom of page, focus email field to get the additional options).

Languages proposed on this page for the MD newsletter are:
- id (Bahasa Indonesia)
- de (Deutsch)
- en (English)
- es (Español)
- fr (Français)
- pl (Polski)
- pt (Português)
- ru (Русский)
- zh (正體中文)

Not sure if we can hit a service to know which languages are available or if we have to hardcode it.

Comment 1

[Julian Descottes [:jdescottes]]

Paul: maybe you know: is there a way to get the list of languages supported by a given newsletter?

Also right now I am always sending subscription requests from about:devtools to the en-US URL (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/newsletter/). Does the URL make any difference here? (compared to using the "fr" URL for instance)

Comment 2

[Paul [:pmac] McLanahan]

(In reply to Julian Descottes [:jdescottes] from comment #1)
> Paul: maybe you know: is there a way to get the list of languages supported
> by a given newsletter?

There is indeed:

https://basket.mozilla.org/news/newsletters/

That's a JSON feed of all newsletters and their properties.

> Also right now I am always sending subscription requests from about:devtools
> to the en-US URL (https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/newsletter/). Does the URL
> make any difference here? (compared to using the "fr" URL for instance)

The language in the URL doesn't make a difference when you POST to it. It's there for rendering a GET request with the newsletter subscription form. It will record whatever language you send in the "lang" parameter as long as it's one of the valid ones for the requested newsletter. If you don't send a "lang" it will default to "en".