2013/1/23 Gervase Markham <[email protected]> > But we ship single-locale builds of desktop Firefox all the time. >
But we give users the freedom to choose which locale they want to install. > > I don't think your problem is with not shipping a locale so much as the > inability to install a different locale afterwards. And that's not the > carrier's problem, it's our technical problem to solve. > You are right about the problem, but currently we have the ability to include more locales we are not including (as Toni showed) because OEMs. On-demand locales is definitely something we should explore if we are talking about a space limitation for not including all of them. > > I _hope_ (as in, it fits with our principles, I think it was the case, > but I am not closely involved) that one thing we do require is for the > phones to be unlockable. So people can, at least theoretically, install > other builds of Firefox OS, including versions with different locales, > after they have purchased the phone. Of course, this would require > CyanogenMod-like engineering because the phones will have proprietary > drivers in them. > Having to install a custom ROM to get a locale is not an optimal experience. > > > 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. > > I suspect their answer would be, at least in part, "we haven't QAed it, > and the apps and strings we have added to the OS and apps are not > translated into it, so users will get an inconsistent experience". > OEMs shouldn’t have problems with locales that they think are not important for most of their users, in any case we will QA these locales as we always do. We are currently speculating about their reasons before talking with them, maybe we will be running in circles in this conversation soon :P 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
