702612 - Firefox Sync account site needs to be localized

Status: VERIFIED WONTFIX

(Cloud Services :: Server: Account Portal, defect)

Description

[:ibai]

https://account.services.mozilla.com/ needs to be localized to the languages where the Sync Client is localized. 

Actual behavior:
- User has Firefox configured in any other language but English.
- He tries to delete the account and goes to https://account.services.mozilla.com/
- Strings show up in English.
- He doesn't understand the text and can't finish his process.

Expected behavior:
- User has Firefox configured in any other language but English.
- He tries to delete the account and goes to https://account.services.mozilla.com/
- Strings show up in his language.
- He happily finish the process.

Comment 1

[Richard Newman [:rnewman]]

Hey Toby: this doesn't seem like a mammoth task, and it would unblock our localizers to contribute strings. On your plate? :)

Comment 2

[Toby Elliott [:telliott]]

There's full support for translation built into account portal (need to check that it all moved over to pyramid correctly). Back when it first launched, I reached out to the translation team, but they were slammed with FF4 and various other projects, so this one was backburnered. If we have some resources available to coordinate translations now, that would be great and we'll put some effort into making sure the translation code is up to speed.

Comment 3

[:ibai]

Pascal, can you help with this?

Comment 4

[Pascal Chevrel:pascalc]

is that a gettext based website or static html files ? Can you point me to the code repository?

Comment 5

[Toby Elliott [:telliott]]

It's gettext. Repo is http://hg.mozilla.org/services/account-portal and the bulk of the translation is in accountportal/templates.

However, two caveats:

1) I've just done a total rewrite that's awaiting review to move the whole thing to pyramid, so things may change around a bit. However, that's has minimal impact on the templates, so getting a handle on the scope from the current version should be fine

2) This site has never undergone design review or had any real attention from people with actual html skills. At some point that might happen, which could have impact on the strings, which are just those that I threw in there while coding.

Comment 6

[Toby Elliott [:telliott]]

This is all going away in favor of Persona at some point, so there's no impetus. If need emerges, we'll reopen it.

Comment 7

[James Bonacci [:jbonacci]]

Well, in favor of Picl IdP anyway...