475613 - Update the components of the Tech Evangelism product section to include all locales

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

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

Description

[Seth Bindernagel]

Can we update the components of the Tech Evangelism product section to include all locales where we ship Firefox?  The Mozilla Localization product section should have all the localizations within its component section.

As we continue to expand to new markets, we are hoping to encourage localization teams and community members to file bugs for web compatibility/tech evangelism issues that new locales might be experiencing.

Comment 1

[Reed Loden [:reed]]

Want to help out by providing a list of the missing ones? That would save us a lot of time.

Comment 2

[chris hofmann]

these are the components open now under the tech evangelism "product" and rough bug count by component.

1702 "English US"
 315 "English Other"
 267 "Other"
 110 "German"
 100 "Hebrew"
  66 "Spanish"
  53 "French"
  52 "Chinese-Simplified"
  42 "Portuguese"
  40 "Dutch"
  32 "Italian"
  23 "Danish"
  16 "Korean"
  13 "Japanese"
   8 "Chinese-Traditional"
   5 "Norwegian"
   5 "Arabic"
   4 "Czech"
   2 "Polish"
   1 "component"


Here is the list of locales that we ship.

http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all.html

Comment 3

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Should we use languages, countries or locales as a base for this?

Comment 4

[chris hofmann]

good question.  the webpages that have problem will be in a specific language, suggesting we use locale, but new users getting involved in the project might not understand the locale codes.

The full set of language codes might be a bit of overkill for the start of the project since miight be unlikely we get reports on broken webpages on some obscure locales, but it might not be worth the time to weed out which ones are unlikely.

Comment 5

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Using countries would be comfortable from our point of view. If we plan to expand in, say, Chile, we would search for most reported broken sites in the 'Chile' component. 

But this would work a lot worse later in the process: suppose someone from Chile reports a website in Spanish. A couple of Mexicans offer their opinions (b/c the site is popular in Mexico too). Finally the fix is provided by someone from Spain. All this in 'Chile' component. Messy.

I think that the current approach to use languages (not locales) is a good solution (meaning one Spanish, one English, one French etc). It encourages community participation (someone from France can simply track the "French" component) and is understandable for new-comers.

If we were to chose a different approach, I think that for this to make sense we would need to know how we would be using these components and what the purpose of having es-ES and es-AR separately is. How can this help us be more efficient?

Comment 6

[:glob ✱]

is this still required?

if so, here's the list of the languages supported by fx4 that are missing in TechEvang.  

can this list please be reviewed before i start creating components:

Afrikaans
Akan
Albanian
Armenian
Assamese
Asturian
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Breton
Bulgarian
Catalan
Croatian
Esperanto
Estonian
Finnish
Frisian
Gaelic
Galician
Georgian
Greek
Gujarati
Hindi
Hungarian
Icelandic
Indonesian
Irish
Kannada
Kazakh
Kurdish
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luganda
Macedonian
Maithili
Malayalam
Marathi
Occitan
Oriya
Persian
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Romansh
Russian
Serbian
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Songhai
Swedish
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Vietnamese
Welsh
Zulu

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

There's apparently still bugs happening in tech evang, so I think we should create them. Thanks for picking this up still.

I'd add Mongolian to the mix, we haven't shipped them in 3.6 or 4, but they're not totally off the table. In return, I'd remove Occitan. Gaelic should probably be Scottish Gaelic, to not confuse it with Irish.

Can you check if there's a group of people who watch all current evang aliases? We should probably get those on board.

Stick with the pattern for QA contact and default assignee, [e-mail].

Comment 8

[:glob ✱]

> Can you check if there's a group of people who watch all current evang aliases?
> We should probably get those on board.

chris, please read comments 6 and 7 :)

Comment 9

[Chris Lawson (gone)]

a=me, for whatever that's worth.

Comment 10

[:glob ✱]

done
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/describecomponents.cgi?product=Tech%20Evangelism