882315 - Add en-CA locale to the Fennec multi-locale build

Status: RESOLVED INCOMPLETE

(Firefox for Android Graveyard :: General, defect, P5)

Description

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Looking to get an en-CA locale stood up to enable more refined, locale-based default customizations.

Let's talk about timing once you've had a chance to see about getting this organized.

Comment 1

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

There is no existing team that we can reach out on the l10n side.

We'd be looking for drivers here to recruit volunteers.

Comment 2

[Karen Rudnitski [:kar]]

Could we simply not stand up the en-CA locale (so we can use it to refine our default customizations) and have it fall back to use en-US strings? Perhaps that in itself could be a prompt to the Canadian community if they would like to see further language refinements.

Comment 3

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

I don't think that's promising. On Jeff's and my side, we're really flooded.

For us going forward, I'd like to see a combination of a product goal as a mix of productization and language content, and volunteers.

Those volunteers may very well be spending a significant amount of their day in an office on Toronto or Vancouver, or even might be ex-employees.

I'd welcome if driving that towards a common goal would gets its energy from the boundaries.

CCing beltzner, hey Mike, you prodded me about en-CA often enough for me to return the favour ;-) (note the 'u' in favor)

Comment 4

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

We do have a community canada mailing list and some reps in Canada to help.

My advice would be to use the en-UK strings, but the dictionary should include both en-US as well as en-UK spellings. UK spellings are proper but we use both, eg honor and honour are both acceptable.

en-FR would be more different from the other FR locales.

Comment 5

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

Oh Kensie, let me introduce you to my buddy Freud. fr-CA.

Noteworthy, mobile doesn't ship gecko dictionaries, AFAIK.

Comment 6

[Mark Finkle (:mfinkle) (use needinfo?)]

Tracking for Fx25 only to see if we can get the basics of a locale stood up. We could create a en-CA locale from the en-GB locale, and then have locale specific search engines and other goodies.

I'll leave the brainstorming to the l10n folks.

Comment 7

[Aaron Train [:aaronmt]]

Last update from June. Still on track? Who's assigned here?

Comment 8

[Kevin Brosnan [Ex-Mozilla]]

Renom this is not going into 25.

Comment 9

[Brad Lassey [:blassey] (use needinfo?)]

filter on [mass-p5]

Comment 10

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

Has Mozilla Canada been able to form a l10n team for this project? If not, I suggest closing this bug.

Comment 11

[Majken Connor [:Kensie]]

Sorry for the long delay in reply. Apparently we have someone who is going to intern this summer who might be interested. Waiting to hear back.

We have a few more Reps in Canada now than when this was first filed. If this is still wanted we could make a formal shot at trying to organize this. Whoever is the stakeholder on the fennec side could start a discussion in our North America community Discourse - https://discourse.mozilla-community.org/c/communities/north-america - or email me to plan further.

Comment 12

[Jeff Beatty [:gueroJeff]]

I'm the guy on the Fennec side to talk to. As has been mentioned before, this needs to have a combination product goal as a mix of productization and language content, volunteers, and energy all coming from the community. Essentially, we need to understand how en-CA is going to be different and uniquely serve en-CA users, as well as a plan outlining who the volunteers are and how they plan to keep it up to date.

I'm happy to meet with the en-CA team to guide this discussion. The discussion, however, should be initiated from the community.

Comment 13

[BMO Automation]

We have completed our launch of our new Firefox on Android. The development of the new versions use GitHub for issue tracking. If the bug report still reproduces in a current version of [Firefox on Android nightly](https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=org.mozilla.fenix) an issue can be reported at the [Fenix GitHub project](https://github.com/mozilla-mobile/fenix/). If you want to discuss your report please use [Mozilla's chat](https://wiki.mozilla.org/Matrix#Connect_to_Matrix) server https://chat.mozilla.org and join the [#fenix](https://chat.mozilla.org/#/room/#fenix:mozilla.org) channel.