576234 - Enable feedback addon on nightlies

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Firefox Build System :: General, defect)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Right now, localizers don't have a way to see their work on the feedback add-on in action.

We should enable it for the nightlies to get some actual l10n testing work done on it.

Comment 1

[Guillermo López :willyaranda (probably SLOW response)]

Actually, I've talked with Jono on the Summit about this, and he said me that he was going to send a post to .l10n newsgroup

Comment 2

[Benjamin Smedberg]

Feedback addon isn't going to be in final, so this doesn't block 2.0 AFAICT. And with l10n-merge this doesn't block l10n betas... so I don't think this really needs to block anything.

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Rerequesting.

There's currently no way for localizers to test any of the strings, which are in fact exposed to l10n.

There's nothing that l10n-merge can do about actual translation errors, and the nightlies are the way to test.

Comment 4

[Benjamin Smedberg]

What exactly would it block? I don't think we'd delay any betas for this, and it doesn't apply to final. It's not even assigned.

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Beltzner, can you get this assigned for me?

Comment 6

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

Can't they just install the XPI?

Comment 7

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n/browse_frm/thread/78a7dcf7a55c66f8# doesn't look all that easy, but that you have to copy files around the build the xpi yourself. Not sure if that's the state of the art.

Comment 8

[Mike Beltzner [:beltzner, not reading bugmail]]

You should be able to just take the XPI and put it in your AppDir, should you not?

Comment 9

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

(In reply to comment #8)
> You should be able to just take the XPI and put it in your AppDir, should you
> not?

Jono?

Comment 10

[Jono Xia]

I'm sorry, I don't understand exactly what is being asked for in this bug.  There seem to be two different requests - for the feedback add-on to work with the nightlies (which it used to, then it broke, now it works again; see bug https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=580369) and the other request is for an easier way for localizers to test changes.  The easiest way I know of is the one I described in the google group post linked above: run "python manage.py install -p (profile)" which establishes a link in your profile so that any changes you make to localization files in your hg checkout are reflected in Firefox as soon as you restart.  No need to copy files around or build XPIs.

Is there a better localization workflow that localizers would like to use and currently can't?  If so, please let me know about it so I can try to implement it for them.

Comment 11

[Benjamin Smedberg]

I believe the request in this bug is to actually *ship* feedback with nightlies, and not just with betas.

Comment 12

[Jono Xia]

Bejamin: OK, thanks for the explanation.

That's up to the Firefox team, but if we decide to do that I can provide support and answer any questions.

Comment 13

[Aakash Desai [:aakashd]]

Hey Jono,

The mobile team is enabling the feedback extension onto nightlies and it'd be good to enable it on Desktop as well. There's some worry on the Desktop side since the feedback extension is really Test Pilot and there may be compatibility issues here, but are all issues resolved to get Test Pilot/Feedback installed onto nightlies now?

Comment 14

[Kim Moir [:kmoir] ET]

Closing, inactive bug