572075 - [son-ML] Registration of Songhay Firefox

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: Registration & Management, enhancement)

Description

[Mohomodou Houssouba]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.5; de; rv:1.9.2.3) Gecko/20100401 Firefox/3.6.3
Build Identifier: Version 10.5.8

Songhay Firefox 3.6 translated through ANLoc but not yet in Mozilla localization system. Registration is being filed for recognition.

Reproducible: Couldn't Reproduce

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Have [son-ML] Songhay in the system
2. Be able to review Firefox localization 
3. Control and correct errors
Actual Results:  
No recognition of reference. Songhay does not exist in the system.

Expected Results:  
Accepted registration bug for [son-ML] Songhay

Recognize Songhay as localization language

Comment 1

[Seth Bindernagel]

Please attach the source files for your localization so we can do a technical review.  Axel is also doing some other research about Songhay and may comment here with more questions.  Thanks!

Comment 2

[Mohomodou Houssouba]

Attachment: Songhay file for Firefox 3.6

Comment 3

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 451518 [details]
Songhay file for Firefox 3.6

Flagging Axel for a technical review.

Comment 4

[Seth Bindernagel]

We've done a review of the attached and filed bug 585936 to add a bs repository
to Hg.  After that, we will do an initial landing and bs will have builds to
test.  More work will follow.  :)

Comment 5

[Seth Bindernagel]

By "bs" I meant Songhay.  (Copy-pasted a note from another locale, sorry.)

Comment 6

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Sooooo, now we're talking, landed as http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/son/rev/d3cff877e097.

Firstly, welcome to the new world, you have localized builds for Songhay Firefox 4.0pre.

*Immediate Next Steps*

To get them to ship to users, we'll need to work on the bugs blocking your release tracker, https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/showdependencytree.cgi?id=fx40-l10n-son&hide_resolved=1.

*Staying connected*

You should also follow the Mozilla l10n newsgroup, http://www.mozilla.org/community/forums/#dev-l10n, available as mailing list, newsgroup or google group. The traffic isn't too high frequency. You'll find messages starting with [ANNOUNCE] in the subject every now and then, those are vital to read, as they include things that the l10n-drivers want you to know and attend to. There's a second group, http://www.mozilla.org/community/forums/#dev-l10n-web, where we discuss web localization issues. That's a separate group as quite a few localization teams have dedicated volunteers for that.

*Songhay Builds of Firefox*

We refer to the pre-release versions of Firefox as "builds". These are where you will continue to work and test to perfect your localization. They're coming in two variants:

- Nightlies. You find those on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/nightly/latest-mozilla-central-l10n/. Sometimes it starts with old versions, so you wanna look at the end what's the current version, and then search for the firefox-4.0b5pre.son.win32.installer.exe, firefox-4.0b5pre.son.linux-i686.tar.bz2, or firefox-4.0b5pre.son.mac.dmg files for win, linux, and mac, resp. These files are good to use for daily browsing, and they'll get a small incremental update every night, bringing both the latest of the stability release as well as your landings to you and your fellow testers.

- Tinderbox builds. Those get built within a few minutes after you landed fixes in hg and pushed them to the upstream repo. Those are the right thing to quickly verify that the changes you made work in the build. These builds can be found on http://ftp.mozilla.org/pub/mozilla.org/firefox/tinderbox-builds/mozilla-central-l10n/ (note the different dir two levels up).

Both of these builds are coming from your new hg repository. You can clone it with http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/son/ anonymously, and with ssh:// instead of http:// once you got your hg account.

Please make sure that you're not regressing the fixes that I landed on top of your attachments. The high-level diff is at https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/diff?from=d3cff877e097&to=1800776fd554&repo=l10n-central%2Fson, the actual changesets are the follow ups in http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/son/pushloghtml?changeset=1800776fd554. I did reset browser-region/region.properties and searchplugins, there are bugs on file to adjust those to Songhay. I also fixed a few errors that I caught during review, and made 'son' the primary locale code. Feel free to request help and review on the first patches you land.

*Monitoring your localization now and in the future*

Now, as if that wasn't enough, there are a few places on the web that you should regularly check to see if there's stuff to do. One would be the web dashboard (you'll use that to hunt down the web pages for your Firefox release), http://l10n.mozilla.org/webdashboard/?locale=son. The other one is called the dashboard, you can find it at https://l10n-stage-sj.mozilla.org/shipping/dashboard?locale=son. And you and your peers should start watching the bugzilla alias for your locale, [e-mail], once it's created. You can do that at the bottom of https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email#new_watched_by_you.

Enjoy and congratulations!

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 451518 [details]
Songhay file for Firefox 3.6

Explicitly denoting my r+ here, too.