308049 - German speaking l10n teams need the new short 'de' locale in BugZilla

Status: VERIFIED FIXED

(bugzilla.mozilla.org :: Administration, task)

Description

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; de-DE; rv:1.7.10) Gecko/20050717 Firefox/1.0.6
Build Identifier: 

In BugZilla is only the de-AT locale existing for German translations.

German speaking translators decided to use the new short 'de' locale for all CVS
localized builds. So we should have the 'de' locale in BugZilla.

BTW: how is it possible to be informed, if (and which) new l10n related bugs are
commited to BugZilla?

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Martin Creutziger [:MMx]]

you can be informed by putting the default assignee on your watch-list. 
We have to decide on that for the "de" component, I would prefer something like
"[e-mail]"

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

KaiRo, do you agree here?

Comment 3

[Robert Kaiser]

I don't agree we need a new component, and we once agreed we only want one
single component per language.
I'm very much for renaming the existing component to de only though, and use a
default assignee like described here. It would break some of my queries but
nothing too bad...

Comment 4

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Yes, renaming the existing component sounds like the way to go.

Comment 5

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Yes, one component sounds reasonable since many translation bugs filed for e. g.
Firefox will be valid for Thunderbird and vice versa. I just talked with Alex,
he is fine with that. So, let's change the name to "de/German", choose a new
default assignee, and grant Alexander "editbugs". Pike, can you do that?

Comment 6

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

We have to force bug reporters to tell us which app they use because of not
having separate components. We need to know if de-AT or de/CVS is meant by bug
reporters, to choose the correct assignee.

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

As people have to give their version number anyway, there's not a big deal about
giving the product. Anyway, having just one locale component is going to be less 
confusing than two.
(I changed alex' bug privs already, too.)

Comment 8

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

marcia is now the default assignee for Bugzilla: Keywords & Components.

Comment 9

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Can we pick this up again? The lack of an alias for the different owners for the different products make filing bugs on the German locales a game that requires hidden knowledge.

Component name should be

de / German localizations (Deutsche Übersetzungen)

default assignee should be nobody, as the default really depends on which product the bug is about, and needs to be set after triage.

QA contact should be [e-mail].

Comment 10

[Robert Kaiser]

Yes, this sounds good to me.

We (esp. Alex, Abdulkadir and me) should just watch that QA contact and reassign the bugs for the respective apps to ourselves...

Comment 11

[Robert Kaiser]

Umm, what is still needed here so that it can be fixed? Would be nice to see this finally happening...

Comment 12

[Marcia Knous [:marcia]]

this change has been made.thanks to kairo for bringing it my attention.

(In reply to comment #11)
> Umm, what is still needed here so that it can be fixed? Would be nice to see
> this finally happening...
> 

Comment 13

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

The QA contact is still timeless?

Comment 14

[Alex Ihrig [:Thunderbird_Mail_DE]]

Ohhh, okay maybe I should sleep some more hours before posting a comment... Timeless ist the QA for THIS bug.

But I'm still not sure, what is the default QA contact now? [e-mail]?

Comment 15

[Robert Kaiser]

Alex:
As shown on https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Mozilla%20Localizations - the default QA is now [e-mail] - and this is the address we all should watch so we see when new bugs are filed.