603966 - (fx40-p12n-fy-NL) [fy-NL] Firefox 4.0 productization review for Frisian

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: fy-NL / Frisian, 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 Frisian 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/fy-NL>

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
==========================

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 Frisian 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

[Wim]

Attachment: add bing remove bloglines

Stas, 

For 1.9.2 (and 1.9.1?), please use the masslanding

list.txt:
google
bing
bolcom-fy-NL
marktplaats-fy-NL
vandale-fy-NL
wikipedia-fy-NL
yahoo-fy-NL

changes region.properties

remove bloglines and move google to the first position

Comment 2

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 485682 [details] [diff] [review]
add bing remove bloglines

This looks good.  Please check this in on l10n-central.  Please add a comment to that checkin that references this change and bug 603966.

I need to see one more patch that removes Bloglines from the 1.9.2 branch.  Can you please provide that?

Comment 3

[Seth Bindernagel]

Attachment: fy-NL remove Bloglines 1.9.2

Looking for a quick review/feedback from Stas and/or Wim.

Comment 4

[Wim]

Checked in for central: http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/fy-NL/rev/0337078f92ebda157f9c9fdc269d2766a86ec363

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/attachment.cgi?id=485690&action=diff
is fine by me.

Comment 5

[Seth Bindernagel]

Wim, can you check in the patch I wrote.  Please add a comment to the checkin that references the change and this bug.  You can also mention that I created the patch just in case.

Comment 6

[Wim]

Done in http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.2/fy-NL/rev/1cdcc1af14ae

Comment 7

[Seth Bindernagel]

Closing.  If you want, you can verify that this is fixed after testing.