After discussion with Narmrata:
1. Agree that for email selection, we should keep the email provider name (strings) in their local languages.
2. For Google apps, still makes sense for us to match the Apps names to the browser language (locale) since selection is limited even at global level (<10 Google Apps). If this prove to be too much trouble, can keep everything in English.
Next step is for Namrata to provide the icon assets for all the email and Google Apps.
Scott/Hector- can you work the localization piece into your plan? Assigning Scott you as the owner for now.
One thing i missed: For Google Apps, we can keep the URL to the US home page (e.g. www.google.com) and let the local servers redirect to country specific domains.
From discussion between hcarmona and namratakannan on jan 9th2019
- We evaluated the various options- agreed that disabling email selector module (option 2) for users outside of en-us is a good solution.
- Apps selector module will not include gmail, consistent with the en-us selection.
- Apps selection will be consistent for all locales (for now)
- After M72 us-en stable results, we will evaluate if it makes sense for us to do additional experiment in us-en for disabling email selector module all together.
- Team will investigate a more scalable localization solution using similar techniques and data source as Clank team (e.g. topapps pipeline). This is a longer effort in preparation for the apps module v2 that includes non google sites
Comment 1 by cyflee@chromium.org
, Oct 18Owner: scottchen@chromium.org
Status: Assigned (was: Untriaged)