Closed Bug 450583 Opened 16 years ago Closed 16 years ago

[bg] Firefox 3 RSS reader setup for Bulgarian

Categories

(Mozilla Localizations :: bg / Bulgarian, defect)

defect
Not set
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

RESOLVED FIXED

People

(Reporter: Pike, Assigned: ogi)

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Details

This is a follow up to bug 424687.

RSS readers are web services allowing users to subscribe to RSS feeds online and view them. If Firefox detects a feed, it offers the user to subscribe to it, either as a live bookmark or via one of the web services.

The current RSS Readers in en-US are Bloglines, My Yahoo, Google.

We want to ship a good set of defaults for Bulgarian, and will work towards that in three stages.

First, the localization team and Mic (Michal Berman) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. Ogi, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on http://wiki.mozilla.org/Firefox_web_services_guidelines. After we decided on a particular RSS reader, Mic will contact the owner and ask for permission. undefined, we'll likely need your help to at least get the contact information.

Once we have a specification on what the set of RSS readers for Bulgarian should look like, the localization team and Axel will work on an implementation on that. This should happen by the localization team creating and attaching patches for the desired changes, and requesting review from Axel. After a successful review, the localization team will land them. If you're not feeling comfortable with creating those changes, ask Axel to help out.

Please don't commit any modifications in l10n/bg/browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties to the cvs repository without a patch reviewed by Axel or someone else appointed by Mic. The data here is sensitive to users and our search partners, thus the extra care here.

Bug 424687 comment 4 mentions replacing bloglines with netvibes. We'll need a patch for that, that's not blocking beta, though.
In bug 450582 comment 2, Ognyan said: "Netvibes has good l10n and replaces
Bloglines". 

Ognyan, can you think of any other RSS readers in Bulgarian that you would like to see added in Firefox? If I understand correctly, the current three suggestions are:
* Google
* My Yahoo
* Netvibes

Are you OK with those? What do you about My Yahoo?
Google Reader and My Yahoo are not localized.

There is 1 Bulgarian RSS reader: http://radar.bg/ . Although it's Google PageRank is 6/10, I don't know anyone that uses it but it could be included.
Ognyan, so how about using this list (in this order)? :
* Netvibes
* Radar
* My Yahoo
* Google

What do you think about it? 

If you're OK with this list, I'll contact radar.bg to ask them for their permission.
This order is fine.

Contact page of radar.bg is http://radar.bg/st.php?page=about&help=1 . You can use Google Translate to translate it from Bulgarian.
Thanks Ognyan. Just sent email to Radar asking for their permission and the URL to be used in region.properties.
I exchanged a couple of emails with Radar.bg and got an impression this isn't exactly the type of functionality that we're looking for. Excerpts:

Stas: "Is it possible to add new feeds (not indexed by you) via an URL?"
 
Radar.bg: "No, we dont have such service for now, but we have something similar.
In every article in dnevnik.bg (the main news site of Economedia) there is a link to radar.bg. For example here: http://www.dnevnik.bg/show/?storyid=555769 you will see in the right column a link and radar's logo. The link will lead you to a new radar tab with only one module - "Search" which searches all our collected news for the words in the article's title.
 
We could do the same for the RSS module and it will works like netvibes but maybe without the transition screen they have."

Moreover, most of the content you get on Radar.bg is pre-selected and hardcoded:

Radar: "When the user loads radar.bg for the first time s/he sees 5 default tabs. Four of them: News, Business, Sport, Entertainment are populated with news modules selected by our editors. The user can't change these 4 tabs, they are static and only hard-coded rss feeds can be read there, exactly like rss.bg.
The fifth default tab is labeled "My page". It works like netvibes. In this tab the user could arrange the modules, add some of our hard-coded rss feeds or his/her own rss feeds or add some specific modules like weather, calendar, notes, cyrillic-latin transliterator etc. The first time the user opens "My page" s/he sees a blank page with a list of possible modules and a help box."

As much as this seems to be a good service for users interested in it, I don't think it is what we understand by an RSS reader that we want to ship with Firefox.

Ognyan, what's your take on this?
Although it's possible to add custom RSS feeds to radar.bg, unfortunately radar.bg is too hard-coded by design, and even I needed help how to add custom feeds. I think it's better to not include it as an option for now.
Ognyan, in this case, would like to prepare the patch?

The list is:

* Netvibes
* My Yahoo
* Google

Here's an example: http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/et/diff/7ecbafbbfbf4/browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties

(But please don't land the change without a review. Thanks.)
Sorry, I didn't see that this change already landed some time ago:
http://bonsai-l10n.mozilla.org/cvsview2.cgi?diff_mode=context&whitespace_mode=show&root=/l10n&subdir=l10n/bg/browser/chrome/browser-region&command=DIFF_FRAMESET&file=region.properties&rev2=1.6&rev1=1.5

This got moved to hg during the migration.

Marking as fixed, please verify if everything is OK. Thanks!
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 16 years ago
Resolution: --- → FIXED
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