Closed Bug 709118 Opened 14 years ago Closed 13 years ago

[ach] Firefox News reader setup for Acholi

Categories

(Mozilla Localizations :: ach / Acholi, defect)

Product:
Mozilla Localizations
Component:
ach / Acholi
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

(Not tracked)

Status:
RESOLVED WORKSFORME

People

(Reporter: Pike, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

(Keywords: productization)

News readers are web services allowing users to subscribe to RSS/ATOM feeds online and view them. If Firefox detects a feed, it offers the user the option to subscribe to it, either as a live bookmark or via one of the web services. The current News Readers in en-US are Google and My Yahoo!. We want to ship a good set of defaults for Acholi, and will work towards that in three stages. First, the localization team and Milos (Milos Dinic) will look at the market for the language and come up with a good candidates. San James, we'll need your input on this, the guidelines for making recommendations are on <https://wiki.mozilla.org/L10n:Firefox/Productization>. After we decided on a particular news reader, Milos will contact the owner and ask for permission. San James, we'll likely need your help to at least get the contact information. Once we have a specification on what the set of news readers for Acholi should look like, the localization team and Milos will work on an implementation on that. This should happen by the localization team creating and attaching patches for the desired changes, and requesting review from Milos. After a successful review, the localization team will land them. If you're not feeling comfortable with creating those changes, ask Milos to help out. Please don't commit any modifications in browser/chrome/browser-region/region.properties to the hg repository without a patch reviewed by Milos, Stas, Axel or someone else appointed by Milos/Stas. The data here is sensitive to users and our search partners, thus the extra care here. The Acholi team will be driving this bug to completion.
Component: Other → ach / Acholi
QA Contact: ach
San James, I've been trying to find some good candidates for Acholi, but unfortunately couldn't find literally anything, not a single website in Acholi language. Can you help us with this?
http://www.rupiny.co.ug/ is what I can suggest. I will keep updating as I find others.
Rupiny is a local newspaper
San James, Is Rupiny aggregating news from other websites as well? News Readers are basically services that pick news from a bunch of websites and present it to its users. We'd like to have something like that in Acholi, as well.
Any specific example I could look at? I know it is where you can read the newspaper online. There is a possibility of aggregation but am not really sure.
San James, that would be(for ie. Google Reader, which is one of defaults): www.google.com/reader/ That's the service that aggregates the news from different websites, allowing you to track them all via one feed url. Do you have any such service in Acholi(that's aggregating news in Acholi)? If not we should look for a fallback option, in some other language.
Hi Milos, there arent any, please lets use to the defaults.
Ok, marking this as worksforme. Thanks, San James.
Status: NEW → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → WORKSFORME
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