Fennec Localization Plan

The L10n-drivers team has sketched out the beginnings of a localization plan for the Fennec mobile browser.  We have formed an experimental testing group of the teams who have gotten an early start.  This group will work directly with both the Fennec developers to report bugs and the l10n-drivers to get localizations ready for the upcoming beta release.  If you would like to become part of this early group, please let me know.

Also, I thought I would let you know who from the l10n-drivers team will be guiding different aspects of the process:

• Axel (Pike on IRC) will be in charge of all the build and release engineering related to Fennec.  He recently landed a large patch that will enable Fennec builds.  Within the coming days and weeks, Pike will have Fennec builds visible on the L10n dashboard.
• Stas (Stas on IRC) will be leading the web services and productization, working closely with localizers and the UI developers on Fennec.  He will soon release a productization guideline for localizers via his blog and posts to the L10n newsgroup.
• Gandalf (Gandalf on IRC) will be the main point of contact for all questions on how to localize Fennec.  He has already localized the browser using an emulator on his machine.  He can walk you through any technical pain points you might face as you localize.  He also will show you to set up the proper file structure in http://hg.mozilla.org/l10n-central/[your_locale]

This quarter, it is likely that an alpha or beta or some combination of both will be released.  Please let us know if you’d like to get started and we will include you in the early test group.

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