Please note some of the information provided in this report may be subject to change as we are sometimes sharing information about projects that are still in early stages and are not final yet.
New community/locales added
- Kabardian
New content and projects
What’s new or coming up in Firefox desktop
Firefox 72 is currently in Beta. The deadline to ship localization changes in this version is approaching fast, and will be on December 24th. For the next version, the deadline will be on January 28th.
Most of the new strings are in the onboarding and Content Feature Recommendations (CFR). You can see them in the What’s New panel in the app menu.
What’s new or coming up in mobile
There is a lot going on with mobile these days, especially in regards to the transition of Firefox for Android browser (internal name Fennec) to a brand new browser (currently Firefox Preview, internal name Fenix).
Since the transition is expected to happen some time early 2020 (exact plans are still being discussed internally), we wanted to make a call to action to localizers to start now. We are still waiting for the in-app language switcher to be implemented, but since it is planned for very soon, we think it’s important that localizers get access to strings so they can complete and test their work in time for the actual release of Fenix (final name to be determined still).
The full details about all this can be found in this thread here. Please reach out directly to Delphine in order to activate Fenix in Pontoon for your locale (requests from managers only please), or if you have any questions.
Looking forwards to the best localized Android browser yet!
What’s new or coming up in web projects
Mozilla.org
We added a few more pages recently. Though some pages are quite long, they do contain a lot of useful information on the advantages of using Firefox over other browsers. They come in handy when you want to promote Firefox products in your language.
New:
- firefox/compare.lang
- firefox/windows-64-bit.lang
- firefox/welcome/page5.lang
Updates:
- firefox/campaign-trailhead.lang
- firefox/new/trailhead.lang
- firefox/products/developer-quantum.lang
WebThings Gateway
This is a brand new product. The Mozilla WebThings is an open platform for monitoring and controlling devices over the web. It is a software distribution for smart home gateways focused on privacy, security and interoperability.Essentially, it is a smart home platform for bridging new and existing Internet of Things (IoT) devices to the web in a private and secure way.
More information can be found on the website. Speaking of the website, there is a plan to make the site localizable early next year. Stay tuned!
The initial localized content was imported from GitHub, content localized by contributors. Once imported, the localized content is by default in “translated” state. Locale managers and translators, please review these strings soon as they go directly to production.
What’s new or coming up in SuMo
This past month has been really busy for the community and for our content manager, we got new and updated articles for Firefox 71 on desktop and the release of many products on mobile: Firefox Preview and Firefox Lite.
Following is a selection of interesting new articles that have been translated:
- For Firefox Lite
- For Firefox 71
- For Firefox Preview
Newly published localizer facing documentation
Style Guides:
- Firefox marketing style guide in Russian
- Indonesian style guide was moved from the team page to the centralized style guide repository.
Obsolete:
The Mozilla Localization Community page on Facebook has shut down. To find out how this decision was reached, please read it here.
Events
Three localization events were organized this quarter.
- The Mozilla Nativo Workshop was held on the 28th – 29th of October in Antigua Guatemala. Localizers from nine localization communities attended the event.
- The Bengali localization workshop took place in Dhaka, Bangladesh on the 9th – 10th of November. The details of the event were well documented by two l10n contributors in their blogs: Tanha Islam and Monirul Alom.
Bengali localization community
The weekend event was widely reported in the local press and social media in Bengali:
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- http://bit.ly/2r26ENr
- http://bit.ly/2OpEZOy
- https://www.be.bangla.report/post/45498-cfmmKTlib
- http://bit.ly/2XrBJ9i
- http://bit.ly/2CU1ciq
- https://techshohor.com/161802/
- The Arabic localization meetup was organized in Tunis, Tunisia on the 6th – 7th of December. The hosting community welcomed visiting localization contributors from Bahrain, Jordan, and Palestine. During the two day workshop, the attendees discussed major challenges facing the geographically distributed community, identified better ways to collaborate, and steps and process to onboard and retain new contributors.
Want to showcase an event coming up that your community is participating in? Reach out to any l10n-driver and we’ll include that (see links to emails at the bottom of this report)
Friends of the Lion
- Kudos to Safa, one of the Arabic locale managers, who single handedly reviewed more than 500 pending suggestions, reviewed and updated the usage of Mozilla brands in Firefox desktop product. He is also leading the effort to improve communications between community members and new contributor onboarding process. Keep up with the good work!
Know someone in your l10n community who’s been doing a great job and should appear here? Contact on of the l10n-drivers and we’ll make sure they get a shout-out (see list at the bottom)!
Useful Links
- Dev.l10n mailing list and Dev.l10n.web mailing list – where project updates happen. If you are a localizer, then you should be following this
- Telegram (contact one of the l10n-drivers below so we will add you)
- L10n blog
- #l10n irc channel: this wiki page will help you get set up with IRC. For L10n, we use the #l10n channel for all general discussion. You can also find a list of IRC channels in other languages here.
Questions? Want to get involved?
- If you want to get involved, or have any questions about l10n, reach out to:
- Delphine – l10n Project Manager for mobile
- Peiying (CocoMo) – l10n Project Manager for mozilla.org, marketing, and legal
- Francesco Lodolo (flod) – l10n Project Manager for desktop
- Th'eo Chevalier – l10n Project Manager for Mozilla Foundation
- Axel (Pike) – l10n Tech Team Lead
- Sta's – l20n/FTL tamer
- Matjaz – Pontoon dev
- Adrian – Pontoon dev
- Jeff Beatty (gueroJeff) – l10n-drivers manager
- Giulia Guizzardi – Community manager for Support
Did you enjoy reading this report? Let us know how we can improve by reaching out to any one of the l10n-drivers listed above.
https://blog.mozilla.org/l10n/2019/12/20/l10n-report-december-edition-2/