849835 - [xh] [Fx] New localization: Xhosa

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(Mozilla Localizations :: xh / Xhosa, defect)

Description

[arky [:arky]]

Xhosa localization effort is reanimated in Pootle http://mozilla.locamotion.org/xh/

Ian Henderson <an(dot)henderson(at)rubric.com> is helping us revive this L10N effort.

Comment 1

[arky [:arky]]

Dwayne, Can you please upload a tarball for review.

Comment 2

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa Firfox 21a2 v1

These are updated for Firefox 21.  The strings have been reviewed, updated and translated.

This is not complete yet, since the team's tooling process somehow missed fuzzy entries from Pootle.  So all the untranslated strings are in fact fuzzy string in Pootle.

They are busy translating those now, though I thought that they would be finished on Friday (today being Monday).

So for the review, I'm happy if you reject this and want to wait for the completed work.  But since this is a reanimation and 67% of translation is complete I think it might be worth basing a review on the work that this team has done.

Comment 4

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa Firefox 21a2 v2

This is Xhosa at 68% translated: security, developer, never and notnb are not touched.

Comment 5

[arky [:arky]]

Axel Can you please review new attachment when you got a moment. :)

Comment 6

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa Firefox 22a2 v1

Latest translations for Xhosa.  They've pretty much translated everything.  Web parts is also done.

Comment 7

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa Firefox 23a2 v1

100% translated for all the important stuff.

This is the 3rd shot from these guys who have been delivering on time or early for each release.  I'm building langpacks but at the moment without any noise from reviewers I'm not sure what is blocking this from moving into Aurora.

Comment 8

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 757469 [details]
Xhosa Firefox 23a2 v1

Looking at http://mozilla.locamotion.org/xh/, there's not much recent activity.

How should we proceed with this request?

noting an r- because the coverage isn't great today eiter.

Comment 9

[Dwayne Bailey]

(In reply to Axel Hecht [:Pike] from comment #8)
> Comment on attachment 757469 [details]
> Xhosa Firefox 23a2 v1
> 
> Looking at http://mozilla.locamotion.org/xh/, there's not much recent
> activity.

They translate offline unfortuantely, but yes no activity in 24. Though they have been active in 21, 22 and 23.

> 
> How should we proceed with this request?
> 
> noting an r- because the coverage isn't great today eiter.

Honestly, land it.  They're not likely to continue contributing if we never actually release anything of theirs.  They've hit the nail 3 times in a row and been very consistent, now we're excluding them because they didn't make the 4th yet we're only halfway into the fourth.

In terms of coverage, specifically for this language, the only stuff missing is what has been added in 24. Plus the usual downgraded: security, developer and other minor misc.

Comment 10

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa Firefox 24a2 v1

Updated for Firfox 24.0a2

Comment 11

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa 24.0a2 20130802T0845 95cda7e

Minor update before close of 24a2

Comment 12

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa 25.0a2 2013-08-27 3b3b1ab

All the critical bits translated.

Comment 13

[ian.henderson]

As far as I can see xh is more translated the zu, which is an official language. I would appreciate knowing what we can do at our end to get xh into the official channel.

Comment 14

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

Attachment: enable "xh" on mozilla-aurora

per meeting w/arky at summit: the xh locale is active again, and already has repo in aurora, so should get aurora builds again. Explicitly, mozilla-beta and mozilla-release are not to get "xh" builds.

armenzg: you've done most of the recent reviews to this file, can you r?

Comment 15

[John O'Duinn [:joduinn] (please use "needinfo?" flag)]

arky, axel, beatty: 

I think this covers it for RelEng side. Anything else that needs to be done on l10n side before these "xh" builds are (re)enabled?

Comment 16

[Armen [:armenzg]]

Comment on attachment 815632 [details] [diff] [review]
enable "xh" on mozilla-aurora

Removing the request until the code lands. Please re-request at that moment.

The code is waiting for Axel to review the attachment.

Comment 17

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We'll answer when we answer.

Comment 18

[Dwayne Bailey]

Attachment: Xhosa 26.0a2 2013-10-18 ff72e65

Updated again.

Comment 19

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Comment on attachment 819032 [details]
Xhosa 26.0a2 2013-10-18 ff72e65

Sorry for the lag, r=me based on the conversations that Jeff had with Ian. I've also done a technical check, that's mostly good.

The only caveat I have is the localization of the accept-lang defaults in intl.properties.

I'll now go ahead and file a bunch of bugs to guide this to a finalized product ready for download on mozilla.org.