Are you a locale leader and want us to include new members in our upcoming reports? Contact us!<\/a><\/p>\n Activity Stream has become an integral part of Firefox, officially replacing the existing New Tab and soon integrating code for displaying snippets and onboarding content. For this reason, we\u2019re working on moving translations to mozilla-central.<\/p>\n Currently, Activity Stream is managed as a stand-alone project in Pontoon, and store its translations in a GitHub repository. Once this meta bug is fixed<\/a>, Activity Stream\u2019s strings will be exposed as part of the Firefox project.<\/p>\n While this makes the relation between Activity Stream and Firefox more obvious for localizers, it will also allow to make some improvements in the future, like reducing the lag between translations landing in repositories and actually being available for testing in Firefox.<\/p>\n There are some changes in the release schedule for the Summer, with the Nightly cycle for 63 lasting 10 weeks instead of 8, and the effects of this change rippling to the end of year.<\/p>\n Does this impact you as a localizer? Luckily, not really, thanks to cross-channel. Just don\u2019t forget to keep an eye on the deadlines in Pontoon for the Firefox project, and you\u2019ll be all set.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re curious, you can always check the official Release Calendar<\/a>.<\/p>\n We were waiting for the 61 Nightly cycle to end before resuming migrations. The first bug on the schedule for 62<\/a> landed on Tuesday and migrated almost 30 strings used in Privacy related permission dialogs (camera, location, pop-ups, etc.), with a second one<\/a> already in review (over 20 strings, used in JavaScript across subdialogs in Preferences).<\/p>\n Shield studies are A\/B tests, deployed to a specific portion of Firefox users, designed to test features or changes and analyze their impact.<\/p>\n So far, these studies have been targeting only English users (with one exception), and didn\u2019t require localization. This week we started localizing our first study: it\u2019s an extension that will be enabled initially only for Nightly, and for a limited number of locales (4) that have a significant population on the Nightly channel. We will also expose the opt-out preference for Shield studies, together with the about:studies page, to all languages in Firefox in the coming days.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re interested in Shield studies, you can find more details in this wiki page<\/a>.<\/p>\n There\u2019s been quite a few things going on in mobile world recently, as you\u2019ve probably noticed.<\/p>\n We\u2019ve recently exposed strings for the upcoming release of Firefox iOS v12, that aims to launch around June 12th. The tentative deadline for localizing and testing is May 23rd. Screenshots are updated twice a week.<\/p>\n Firefox for Amazon Fire TV is shipping an update very soon, probably some time next week. We\u2019ll be getting updated screenshots for testing very soon, stay tuned!<\/p>\n Same for Focus Android v5 that is coming up, and will feature three new locales: Angika (anp), Cornish (kw) and Pur\u00e9pecha (tsz). Congrats to the localizers involved in this effort!<\/p>\n Firefox for Android is updating to v60 as we speak, and is being progressively rolled out to users.<\/p>\n Common Voice<\/a> was launched on May 2nd in 29 languages. Thanks to many communities\u2019 active participation to get to the finish line, especially with quite a bit of last minute changes. More languages will be added as they reach the completion criteria.<\/p>\n The team has been continually impressed with the thoroughness of communities around the globe down to the wire, to test, to identify issues, and they have not stopped just because the product or their language is launched. The bugs keep coming, not just for translation but for site stability and UX issues. Here is one example<\/a>.<\/p>\n Currently, only the website is localizable. The next step is to start recording voices in new languages. To that end, we need sentences for people to read in these new languages. The Common Voice team is participating the Mozilla’s Global Sprint <\/a>to help collect and review new sentences for people to read. Only after that, the team will start collecting voice data in a new language.<\/p>\n On the advocacy and fundraising side, we\u2019ve had an opportunity to respond to the Clear History feature announced by Facebook during the F8 conference, but the team is mostly focusing on the long term strategy on how to move the conversation to the broader data and privacy topic.<\/p>\n We\u2019re happy to announce that Vishal Sharma<\/a> and Pramit Singhi<\/a> will be joining us for the Google Summer of Code<\/a> project this year! They will help us improve the path to first contribution, including the homepage redesign and guiding new users to submitting their first translation. That should help us grow l10n communities.<\/p>\n Pontoon now runs compare-locales checks when you submit a translation – the same library that is used during the Firefox build process. That allows Pontoon to prevent you from submitting translations that can break Firefox. Read more<\/a> about the updates we made to the way quality checks work.<\/p>\n Pontoon now allows you to translate strings across all projects<\/a> in a single translation interface, which helps you work on all untranslated strings in one go, or review all pending suggestions submitted by your team contributors. We also changed the way search works by bringing it closer to the default behaviour of search engines.<\/p>\n We realized that several communications we send to the dev.l10n.web mailing list concern only a small subset of locales, and are meant to be ignored by the vast majority of people. In order to keep the signal-to-noise ratio low, we are changing the way we communicate project updates like snippets and newsletters. From now on, we will try to rely as much as possible on Pontoon built-in notification system, allowing us to send notifications only to existing contributors in the target locales. This way, communications in dev.l10n.web should be more relevant for everyone.<\/p>\n This also means people contributing to Engagement projects won\u2019t get notification directly in their inbox, but using the Pontoon Tools add-on<\/a> from Michal Stanke will get you almost real-time notifications in your browser. If you\u2019re usually contributing to those projects, please keep an eye on Pontoon notifications if you don\u2019t want to miss schedule, deadline or context about new content.<\/p>\n If you\u2019re planning to meet your fellow teammates this year, or planning an event with other locales, make sure to check our plans for l10n meetups in 2018<\/a> and the process to organize meetups<\/a>. We can\u2019t wait to see the meetup ideas you may have!<\/p>\n Image by Elio Qoshi<\/p><\/div>\n <\/p>\n Know someone in your l10n community who\u2019s been doing a great job and should appear here? Contact on of the l10n-drivers and we\u2019ll make sure they get a shout-out (see list at the bottom)!<\/p>\n Did you enjoy reading this report? 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What\u2019s new or coming up in Firefox desktop<\/h3>\n
Activity Stream<\/h4>\n
Release schedule<\/h4>\n
Fluent migrations<\/h4>\n
Shield studies<\/h4>\n
What\u2019s new or coming up in mobile<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s new or coming up in web projects<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s new or coming up in Foundation projects<\/h3>\n
What\u2019s new or coming up in Pontoon<\/h3>\n
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Localization impact by the numbers<\/h2>\n
Snippets<\/h3>\n
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Friends of the Lion<\/h2>\n
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