603979 - (fx40-p12n-is) [is] Firefox 4.0 productization review for Icelandic

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: is / Icelandic, 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 Icelandic 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/is>

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 Icelandic 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

[Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson]

Attachment: Patch for region.properties and list.txt

1) There is no google.xml in searchplugins so no need to remove.

2) I removed Bloglines and moved Google Reader up to first position in region.properties.

I removed Answers and Creative Commons and added Bing as 3rd general search engine.

All of these changes are included in the patch. Please review.

Comment 2

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 485630 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for region.properties and list.txt

This looks good to me.  Please check this into l10n-central and add a comment to that check in that references this change and Bug 603979.

I need to see a separate patch for the 1.9.2 branch that removes only Bloglines.  Can you provide that for me?  Thanks.

Comment 3

[Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson]

Attachment: Patch for region.properties branch 1.9.2 to remove Bloglines

Checked in patch for l10n-central:
http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/is/rev/8ec43add8694

Added patch for 1.9.2 branch that removes Bloglines and moves Google up. Please review.

Comment 4

[Seth Bindernagel]

Comment on attachment 485862 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for region.properties branch 1.9.2 to remove Bloglines

Please land this on 1.9.2.  Please add a comment to that check in that references bug 603979 and this change.

Comment 5

[Kristján Bjarni Guðmundsson]

Checked in patch for l10n-mozilla-1.9.2:
http://hg.mozilla.org/releases/l10n-mozilla-1.9.2/is/rev/a57fb1d2af20

Comment 6

[Justin Dolske [:Dolske]]

Comment on attachment 485630 [details] [diff] [review]
Patch for region.properties and list.txt

Clearing review request on fixed bug. Please file a new bug if there are remaining issues.