2013/1/22 Gervase Markham <[email protected]> > > That makes logical sense as a request, although I don't know how our > business development team will react to it. :-) In any negotiation, in > order to get something you have to give something, and we can never have > all that we want. Therefore, in order for this to be something we fight > for in contracts, we need good reasons why we are keen that it happens. >
True, but my personal opinion is that there are some things that shouldn't be negotiable, such as features. For me, the lack of a locale is lack of a feature. > > So, before I email them to ask, can we quickly enumerate the list of > reasons why we want this? > > - It allows users to choose the best language for them, which may not > be one of the official languages of the sales territory; > - It is consistent with Mozilla's commitment to user choice; > - ...? > Locales are a core feature of Firefox, they are the representation of the multi-cultural community we are and our commitment to create a global product. I would add a question for them: What are the reasons for not including a locale? In this case I think they should convince us, since we are removing our work from the final product. > > > If space is a problem, we should develop a way to be able to include most > > common locales and add the ability to download user preferred locale on > > first run on demand. > > My understanding from this discussion is that such a mechanism is in the > works (although it may not be simple for Mozilla to provide complete > language packs for phones which have been customized by OEMs or carriers > and new strings added). > I assume Firefox OS is shipped as it is and modifications have to be approved by us in order to use the "Firefox OS" brand. Similar to the desktop. Regards. -- Rubén Martín (Nukeador) Mozilla Reps Mentor http://mozilla-hispano.org http://twitter.com/mozilla_hispano http://facebook.com/mozillahispano _______________________________________________ governance mailing list [email protected] https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/governance
