MozillaQualityAssurance:l10n checklist

For further information on localization, please visit the L10n wiki. For further information on MoFo QA, please visit our QA wiki.

Below are quick checklists when certifying localized builds for release. It's important to note that such certification does not include the following, due to limited resources:

• quality of translation
• coverage of every string throughout the UI
• behavior/functionality of everything

For Firefox

• installation, new profile, migration
• default homepage to Google start page for new profiles
• search bar: Google and Yahoo (unless otherwise approved by Marketing) must be listed 1st and 2nd, respectively
• About dialog: date, version
• Help window should appear, although not necessarily localized
• Themes / Extensions dlg (just ensure they appear, with Themes listing the default)
• Bookmarks: NO "crew picks"! But other locale-specific ones are acceptable
• sidebar: history / bookmarks
• go to another webpage
• Preferences/Options window: check that each category panel displays properly —there shouldn't be XML errors or fields too narrow to display content even after resizing
• view source
• quickly go through menu items and/or couple of context menus
• find toolbar
• check about:config for app.update.url string: it should point to <locale>.rdf, not en-US.rdf
• check for Talkback, located under <install_location>/components/talkback/

For Thunderbird

• installation, new profile, migration
• all basic windows:
  • main 3pane
  • mail compose
  • mail standalone
  • view source
  • address book; also check AB card dialog
• About dlg: date, version
• Account Central: appears in the right pane when an account is selected from the folder pane
• default mail start page (new profiles; accessed from Go > Mail Start Page): localizers can translate the content and point to localized content where appropriate, but using the en-US content and links is acceptable
• Help window
• Themes / Extensions dialogs: just ensure they appear, with Themes listing the default theme
• Mail Account Settings dialog: check that each category/account panel displays properly —there shouldn't be XML errors or fields too narrow to display content even after resizing (if resizing is possible)
• Preferences/Options window: check that each category panel displays properly —there shouldn't be XML errors or fields too narrow to display content even after resizing
• quickly view menu items and/or couple of context menus
• check for Talkback

1.0 Releases

For reference, this section lists the locales released under v1.0.

Firefox 1.0 locales

• ast-ES
• ca-AD
• cs-CZ
• da-DK
• de-DE
• el-GR
• en-GB
• en-US
• es-AR
• es-ES
• fi-FI
• fr-FR
• he-IL
• hu-HU
• it-IT
• ja-JP (ja-JPM for Mac)
• ko-KR
• nb-NO
• nl-NL
• pl-PL
• pt-BR
• ro-RO
• ru-RU
• sl-SI
• sv-SE
• tr-TR
• zh-CN
• zh-TW

Thunderbird 1.0 locales

• ca-AD
• cs-CZ
• de-DE
• en-US
• es-AR
• es-ES
• fi-FI
• fr-FR
• hu-HU
• it-IT
• ja-JP (shouldn't there be ja-JPM for Mac?)
• ko-KR
• nb-NO
• nl-NL
• pl-PL
• pt-BR
• ru-RU
• sv-SE
• tr-TR

1.0.1 Releases

The following are additional locales released for the v1.0.1 products. Note that the locales released under v1.0 would also be included here.

Reminder: there was no Thunderbird 1.0.1 release.

Firefox 1.0.1 additional locales

• af-ZA
• ga-IE
• pt-PT

1.0.2 Releases

Additional locales releasing during v1.0.2 are currently TBA. However, there are tracking bugs which announce sign-off for specified locales:

• bug 286605 for Firefox 1.0.2 l10n builds
• bug 286606 for Thunderbird 1.0.2 l10n builds

Important: Please note that as of this release, v1.0.2, the localization teams are now responsible for QA'ing including the checklists for Firefox and Thunderbird mentioned above. This per n.p.m.l10n postings from Asa on 17 March 2005 and 21 March 2005.