362461 - fix problems with dictionaries list (missing names, duplicates etc)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Dictionaries, defect)

Description

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

This is a tracker for issues with the dictionaries list. The major jobs are 
  - include locales which have dicts but no full locale in download.js
  - remove duplicate entries for ro-ro and is/is-is
  - fix danish language code

Comment 1

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I've emailed Ragnar Skulason about the duplicate Icelandic dicts, 

  https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3634/
  https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3643/

which give us the is and is-is entries.

Could be just a misunderstanding about how you update extensions.

Comment 2

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Ragnar is going to  use the Developer Control Panel to remove the duplicate is-is (ID 3634).

Could someone on the amo admin side please look into why there are two Romanian dicts ? The ro one has a valid d/l url, and corresponds to https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/3390/; the ro-ro one just loops back to the current page (the page source just has addDictionary("ro-ro", "", 112); )

Comment 3

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

Removing "is-is" must have gone ok, because only "is" remains in the list.

Adding bug 362420 as dep, since it covers the two fr dicts.

Comment 4

[Jesper Kristensen]

This bug depends on bug 370751

Comment 5

[Jesper Kristensen]

The dictionary names has always had problems.
The dictionary names still have problems.
The dictionary names will continue to have problems unless we do something.

Proposal: Move responsibility from mozilla.com maintainers to dictionary maintainers.

Details: Stop using https://www.mozilla.com/js/download.js and use the AMO database instead. We have three table fields that we can reuse: name, summary and description. They could be used the following way:

name: Local dictionary name (Currently second column on the dictionary page)
summary: Localized dictionary name (Currently first column on dict page)
description: Short description (Currently shown in the install dialog)

This would also make it possible to show the first column on the dictionary page in any language AMO is localized in, not just English.

Should I create a new bug on this?

Comment 6

[Nick Thomas [:nthomas] (UTC+12)]

I'm no longer working on this. Jesper has made great strides on fixing the worst of the problems in bug 376461.

Comment 7

[nickers]

Would someone please be so kind to take a look at bug 362471 (no language name for hsb)? The fix is trivial and it has seen no maintainer activity for the last 8 months.

Comment 8

[Wil Clouser [:clouserw]]

As soon as I finish bug 425341 this list will be consistent and uniform.  In the mean time though, all the "missing names, duplicates, etc." should be fixed so I'm fixing this bug.