1643591 - German localization

Status: RESOLVED MOVED

(Mozilla Localizations :: de / German, enhancement)

Description

[brad.bannon]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64; rv:77.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/77.0

Steps to reproduce:

Open Thunderbird 77b3.

Actual results:

In the German version, there are still a lot of non-localized parts in Thunderbird beta (and this has been for quite a while now).

Here's a list of examples I found:

In main window:

main menu > datei > open
main menu > bearbeiten > cut/copy/paste
main menu > bearbeiten > suchen > global search
message view > context menu > select all/copy
settings > privacy + security
account settings > end-to-end encryption

In message compose window (the first one is especially annoying):

label From/To/Subject
main menu > bearbeiten > undo/redo/cut/copy/paste
context menu > undo/cut/copy/paste

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Is there any place, where I can help translating, without going into the source code? Like pontoon.mozilla.org, but I couldn't find Thunderbird there...

Expected results:

At some point, the localization should be complete. Have been waiting for it for some time now.

Comment 1

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

(In reply to brad.bannon from comment #0)

...
Is there any place, where I can help translating, without going into the source code? Like pontoon.mozilla.org, but I couldn't find Thunderbird there...

Thanks for offering to help. Your starting point is https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/#translation ... which leads to the correct link for pontoon.

At some point, the localization should be complete. Have been waiting for it for some time now.

I think Translation big deadlines for Thunderbird are the major releases, for example version 78

Comment 2

[brad.bannon]

Thanks for your response. I know pontoon but I can't find a German (de) localization. There's a link "Request new locale", which leads to bugzilla. So, is this bug report enough to get the German localization added, or do I have to create new bug report using the given template?

Comment 3

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Yeah, I don't know why German is missing from https://pontoon.mozilla.org/projects/thunderbird/

Let's ping someone

Comment 4

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

Thunderbird is not localized via Pontoon, but via Mercurial. A change on that would depend on the current maintainer.

Comment 5

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

In that case, our documentation at https://www.thunderbird.net/en-US/get-involved/#translation is incorrect

Comment 6

[Francesco Lodolo [:flod]]

It covers the general case, and I think the solution would be to enable German on Pontoon instead. Note that Spanish (es-ES) is in the same boat, but I think that's it.

Comment 7

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Brad, apparently the starting point for getting involved in localization is https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Mozilla/Projects/Thunderbird/Thunderbird_Localization Sorry for the confusion.

Anyway, I'll reopen this for comment 0. But you should judge the current localization status by using 78 beta.

Comment 8

[brad.bannon]

Ok. Actaully, the missing translations have been fixed in the latest 78 beta. Making the localization available on Pontoon in the future would be good thing, though.

Comment 9

[Wayne Mery (:wsmwk)]

Filed https://github.com/thundernest/thunderbird-website/issues/228