603937 - (fx40-p12n-af) [af] Firefox 4.0 productization review for Afrikaans

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: af / Afrikaans, defect)

Description

[Staś Małolepszy :stas]

As you might have seen in the newsgroups or on the Mozilla blog, there's a couple of changes to search engines planned for the 4.0 release for en-US: <http://groups.google.com/group/mozilla.dev.l10n/msg/81073d8d67e1c4c3>. We would like to use this opportunity to review the current productization setup for Afrikaans and make any changes that you think will be good for our users.

What is a productization review?
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Here's what we're interested in:
* search engines,
* protocol handlers,
* feed readers,
* live bookmark.
You can see what your locale currently ships with at <http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n/l10n-src-verification/file/default/reference/browser/2.0/af>

Please take a moment and review the choice of services available by default in your locale. If there have been any new services that have recently gained popularity and that offer good value for the users, please suggest adding them to your locale. On the other hand, if there are services that lost credibility (e.g. display too many adds) or have poor user experience, consider suggesting that we remove them. If in doubt, feel free to make a suggestion and we'll look at it together. You might find the guidelines at <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Productization> and <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization> helpful, too.

Required changes
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There's two things I would like to draw your attention to (if applicable):

1) if you have a google.xml file in your `searchplugins` directory, please remove it,

2) Bloglines is closing down on November 1st and we need to remove it from the feed reader options for all locales (see bug 595485). We suspect that it will make sense to move Google Reader up to the first position (if your locale has it). We will be offering technical help with this change, either in form of ready-made patches or a mass-landing by one of the l10n-drivers. If you don't think that moving Google Reader up is a good idea for your locale, please let us know!

Changes in en-US and en-GB
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Here's the changes that we will be making in en-US and en-GB:
* add Bing as the 3rd general search engine (see bug 603298),
* remove Answers,
* remove Creative Commons.

We're making these changes in en-US and en-GB because we feel that they follow the recent market trends and user preferences in the US and the UK. We would like to go through the same thought process for your locale and see if any of these changes would make sense in Afrikaans builds as well. If you decide that implementing these changes would be in your users' best interest then please go ahead and include them in the patch you'll attach to this bug.


Implementation
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Please make suggestions for changes and attach patches that Seth, Axel or I will review. Please note that since Bing provides a global plugin which does the locale detection itself, you will only need to add "bing" to your list.txt if you decide to include it. The XML file will be automatically pulled from en-US.

Once a review is granted, you can land the patch on l10n-central if your locale actively maintains it. Otherwise, please wait for further instructions which will be put in the comments of this bug and announced in mozilla.dev.l10n (we're still unsure when the branching will happen). Please do not land any changes except for the required ones (google.xml, Bloglines) on 1.9.2.

If you do not wish to make any changes, let us know, and we'll only work on removing Bloglines.

Thanks!

Comment 1

[Seth Bindernagel]

Hi, Bloglines still remains in your 1.9.2 repository.  Please prepare a patch to remove it. 

Also, if you have any productization changes to make for Firefox 4, like the Bing suggestion listed in comment 0, please provide a patch to make that change on l10n-central.  Thank you.

Comment 2

[Dwayne Bailey]

Friedel are you able to look at this?

Comment 3

[Seth Bindernagel]

Ping - just checking in on status of this bug.  Any updates?

Comment 4

[Dwayne Bailey]

I made a patch for the search plugins which I think Stas still needs to review.  Haven't looked at the blogline stuff

Comment 5

[Seth Bindernagel]

Stas should be r+ a patch from bug 597625 now.  When ready, please attach a patch on the Bloglines stuff.  Thanks, guys.

Comment 6

[Seth Bindernagel]

Bloglines ping.  :)

Comment 7

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Remove bloglines and add Bing

Afrikaans is pretty much following en-US.

Comment 8

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 511305 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove bloglines and add Bing

I am only r- this one because you'll need to add Bing to list.txt.  Can you do that?  I know these are simple, small changes, so I really appreciate you guys working on this.  If you add Bing to list.txt, you might consider removing one of the other plugins to keep the number at 6.

Comment 9

[Seth Bindernagel]

Can you guys make the quick/simple change of adding Bing to list.txt? Then we are done.

Comment 10

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Remove bloglines and add Bing, fix list.txt

This adds an update to list.txt

Added: bing
Removed: answers and creativecommons (not commonly used in South Africa)

Comment 11

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 513051 [details] [diff] [review]
Remove bloglines and add Bing, fix list.txt

This looks great!  Please land on l10n-central.  Please note that the Bing addition is not meant for 1.9.2.  

As you check in, add a comment that says, "Bug 603937, r=sethb, FF 4 productization changes."

Then, test, sign off, and, if all is good, close this bug.

Comment 12

[Dwayne Bailey]

Committed in 75:a682790f89f6