371006 - Support testing of language packs for new locales

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: Other, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

One of the things that we currently don't do very good is expose new locales in the making to testers. One way to do that would be to put language packs up on AMO. In this case, like regular extensions, that is, whenever the localizer submits one into the review queue. I wouldn't necessarily want to restrict this to registered locales or locales in our CVS.

Does that sound like a good idea?

If so, I had a few further questions:

- anyone missing on CC on this bug? If so, fix it ;-)

- should we expose these in a separate category than the one where our own release packs are planned to show? See bug 245946.

- as those xpis are supposed to be way more agile than our regular langpacks, I guess we should add the build id to the version, something like 2.0.0.2pre2007022110 or so.

- should we mangle the extension ID to distinguish these from our official language packs? This could be interesting mostly when we start taking a particular locale in official releases, at which point we run into bug 334136 with a tad more momentum.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Making the remora category and the security update actually block this.

Comment 2

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

FIXED, open issues with langpacks on AMO are in separate bugs.