492972 - [ta-LK] Firefox 3.5 News reader setup for Tamil (Sri Lanka)

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: ta-LK / Tamil (Sri Lanka), defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

News readers are web services allowing users to subscribe to RSS/ATOM 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 News Readers in en-US are Bloglines, My Yahoo, Google.

We want to ship a good set of defaults for Tamil (Sri Lanka), and will work towards that in three stages.

First, the localization team and Stas (Stas Malolepszy) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. Sarves, 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 news reader, Stas 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 news readers for Tamil (Sri Lanka) should look like, the localization team and Stas 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 Stas. After a successful review, the localization team will land them. If you're not feeling comfortable with creating those changes, ask Stas to help out.

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

Comment 1

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hi Everyone, 

We are nearing the approach of our release candidates for Firefox 3.5.  Have
you had any chance to progress on the best RSS readers to include in the ta-LK
version of Firefox?  

Please let us know as soon as possible.

Comment 2

[Sarves]

Hello Seth,

Many here are using Google Reader and we do not have a specific reader for Tamil (Sri Lanka).
We are happy with Google, Yahoo and Bloglines. We can go with these three.
If anything need to be done our side, plz guide us.

Thanks,
Sarves

Comment 3

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Sarves: Should we consider netvibes.com (partially translated into Tamil) as the third or fourth reader?

If not, let's go with the en-US default and close this bug.

Comment 4

[Sarves]

Sure Seth, we can consider that as a 3rd reader.  
Hope that we can relay on this reader and it wont get vanished in sometime ;)

Thanks, Seth!

Comment 5

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

(In reply to comment #4)
> Sure Seth, we can consider that as a 3rd reader.  

If as the 3rd one, should we replace Bloglines? Would you mind creating a patch and attaching it in this bug for review, please? It should look something similar to this one: http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/cy/rev/5fe2fbac33b6

> Hope that we can relay on this reader and it wont get vanished in sometime ;)

That's our hope as well :) We wish them well (we use Netvibes in quite a lot locales).

Comment 6

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Sarves, can you create a patch and attach it in this bug, please? Let me know if I can help with that. Thanks.

Comment 7

[Sarves]

Could you please help on this. It will be very helpful if u can create patch for us. We will try to do next time. 
Thanks in advace
Sarves

Comment 8

[Seth Bindernagel]

Attachment: ta-LK Newsreader patch, adding Netvibes and removing Bloglines

As requested by the ta-LK team, I created a patch that removes Bloglines and adds Netvibes.  Staś, can you provide a review?

Comment 9

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Comment on attachment 383534 [details] [diff] [review]
ta-LK Newsreader patch, adding Netvibes and removing Bloglines

Sarves, no problem, thanks for letting us know.

Seth, thanks for the patch! r=me. Sarves, please land this patch on branch (1.9.1) and trunk (l10n-central) using a descriptive check-in comment, mentioning the bug number and my review (e.g. "Bug 492972, remove Bloglines, add Netvibes, p=sethb, r=stas").

Please use fixed1.9.1 and verified1.9.1 keywords in this bug to track landing and verification on the 1.9.1 branch.

Comment 10

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Sarves, have you managed to apply and commit the patch? Let us know if you'd like us to help with the landing :)

Comment 11

[Sarves]

Stas, 
Yes, Please.. 
Could you please land this patch for us?

Sarves

Comment 12

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

Sarves: Sorry for the delay in replying, I was taking some time off. I landed the patch on 1.9.1:

http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/ta-LK/rev/925abd877c9f

I'll submit the new opt-in revision to Axel.

Comment 13

[Sarves]

(In reply to comment #12)
> Sarves: Sorry for the delay in replying, I was taking some time off. I landed
> the patch on 1.9.1:
> http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.1/ta-LK/rev/925abd877c9f
> I'll submit the new opt-in revision to Axel.

Many thanks Staś!

Sarves

Comment 14

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/ta-LK/rev/925abd877c9f, marking FIXED.