Hi Nukeador, Thanks for bringing this issue up.
It would help to understand the problem better. (And I read the original thread.) Is the problem that the locales are not being shipped? Or that they can't be developed/tested/submitted? If it's the second, what is stopping people from being able to develop/test/submit their l10n work? Stormy On Fri, Jan 18, 2013 at 3:43 PM, Rubén Martín <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi, > > I would like to follow up a thread on web.l10n about locales in Firefox > OS > < > https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#%21topic/mozilla.dev.l10n/Xk9pHBz5uTU > > > on behalf of everyone who showed their concerns there. > > It seems we are only shipping locales that OEMs want to include and > excluding the rest. A lot of l10n teams are not happy to work and don't > see their locales shipped. > > * People can't test their l10n work, no builds or support for these > locales. And for Firefox OS is really important to be able to have a > real device to test l10n (because of string sizes). > * Some regions have multiple official languages. For example in Spain > where a lot of people would like to have their devices in Catalan, > Basque or Galician. > * We are assuming we only ship Firefox OS with big carriers, what if a > small device manufacturer wants to ship Firefox OS device in Africa? > * If this is a device space problem as was commented, why not include > locales on demand on first start-up? > > This is a tense situation for communities who want more information on > this decision and it would be nice to have a discussion about why are we > doing this or if OEMs are/should really decide what should we ship in > terms of locales. > > Also keep in mind some mozillians could think (I'm not saying this is > the case) OEMs want to control what we ship and think about for example > what if an OEM is not comfortable in the future with our DNT feature. > > Regards. > > -- > Rubén Martín [Nukeador] > Mozilla Reps Mentor > http://www.mozilla-hispano.org > http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano > http://facebook.com/mozillahispano > > > _______________________________________________ > governance mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance > > _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
