L10n/HomePage/Status/2011-04-27

Meeting Details

Meeting Notes

firefox 5

aurrora repo now set up
have until 2011-05-17 to finish localizing Firefox 5 content in mozilla-aurora
- very few string changes going into firefox 5.
- about 18 locales have translation work finished for firefox 5
- about 65 more under 36 strings remain.
en-US is doing a 'test beta' to check out beta repo infrastructure and build some aurrora channel users this week. no l10n participation is expected for these test beta builds.
http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/firefox/all-aurora.html is now available to help people find aurora builds in all languages
- please help promote this and get members of all locaization teams on the aurora channel.
sign-off tool/process planned for roll out end of this week, or early next week. details
2011-05-17 due date to finish localizing Firefox 5 content in mozilla-aurora

firefox 6

marketing projects on the horizon

firefox 4 upgrade campaign -> https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=649073
"markup" (launch May 10th, l10n start: today)
"webifyme" (launch May 17th+, l10n start TBD, maybe this week);
"Vertical Garden" (launch: end of May/beginning of June; l10n start: TBD)

Mobile is moving to rapid release cycle - following desktop branching and release logic (but adding a strategic delay of a week or two for all releases).
We need more LQA and test automation to catch issues with our mobile builds in all languages
QA looked at "DeviceAnywhere" service last Monday
We are working on Language Packages in AMO
- Summary of our most recent discussion
- Mobile Feature Page: Better First-Run Experience: Language Choice
Find more info about our features and schedules at
- Weekly Mobile Meetings
- Mobile Feature List with detailed Feature Pages
- Flight Tracking (Features mapped to releases)
- https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mobile/Planning