936559 - [xh] Enable Xhosa localization on SUMO

Status: RESOLVED FIXED

(support.mozilla.org :: Localization, task, P4)

Description

[Axel Hecht [:Pike]]

We need to enable the localization of SUMO in Xhosa [xh].

Ian, this is one of the better places to get the community to help out directly. If it makes more sense to redirect to another language, though, we can also do that.

And, Ian, we'd need "Xhosa" in Xhosa again to set this up, please add that here, utf-8 encoded. Thanks.

Once we have a decision what to do, and possibly the description, this bug will be fixed by Mozilla staff.

Comment 1

[ian.henderson]

"Xhosa" as in the language is called "isiXhosa". Please check against "Zulu", where the equivalent is "isiZulu". If the Zulu version is not "isiZulu" then let me know what it is and I will get in tuoch with the translator

Comment 2

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Actually, we are going to start discouraging localizations that can not be maintained, and instead ask for a fallback language. It's usually not a good experience for the user to see a partially translated website, where thing in their language is out of date and other things are in English. Especially for smaller locales it can be a challenge to keep SUMO up to date. So, is there a language that people who speak Xhosa also speak, that we could fall back to?

Comment 3

[ian.henderson]

It would be helpful to know what the parameters are for classing a language as not being maintained. For Xhosa we are working to the 6 weekly browser release cycle and do the web site at the same time. We are doing this because there does not seem to be a regular release cycle for the web site.
With many of our other clients we are given road maps 6 months ahead of time and in one case we even know the exact release dates 1 year in advance. It would help localizers a lot if Mozilla could publish their planned release cycles for the various components ahead of time. 
To answer your question Xhosa speakers would fall back to English.

Comment 4

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Sorry, Ian, I shouldn't have assumed anything about Xhosa. Here is the message from Rosana, our L10n community manager:

> Dear localizers,
> 
> I published a blog post and and a forums thread and tried to contact
> each and every of you who might be affected personally, but I wanted
> to reach out to you on this list too.
> 
> We have some thoughts about SUMO and we were thinking of making some
> changes and transitioning some locales to a smaller SUMO.
> 
> All the details are here:
> https://blog.mozilla.org/sumo/2014/03/05/localization-of-sumo-focusing-on-our-active-locales/
>
> 
> And we'll be having the discussions here: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/forums/l10n-forum/710065
> 
> Let us know if you have any questions! The best place to put them
> would be the forums, since it's open to everyone.
> 
> Again thank you so much for your efforts!

Comment 5

[ian.henderson]

No problem.
In the SUMO context I think it is fine to support the xh-ZA user base in English.

Comment 6

[Kadir Topal [:atopal]]

Thanks for the feedback, Ian!

Ricky, let's forward xh-ZA to English

Comment 7

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

1pter

Comment 8

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

In a PR:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/pull/1869

Changing to 0pt and putting in current sprint.

Comment 9

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Landed on master:
https://github.com/mozilla/kitsune/commit/03a99252042eb708c8ef0ae291ccead2b4469c18

Comment 10

[Ricky Rosario [:rrosario, :r1cky]]

Deployed to prod now.