+++ This bug was initially created as a clone of Bug #1468240 +++ As per bug 1468240 comment #10: Move 216 search XML files from the mail directories here https://dxr.mozilla.org/l10n-central/search?q=file%3A*.xml&redirect=false into mail/components/search/searchplugins and remove from the l10n tree. NI'ing a few people who might know how to proceed here.

I can most probably help with scripting this and making it work for Mercurial, but I guess flod first needs to do some magic on Pontoon in order to keep current translation status. Or are the files pulled out of localization altogether? Anyway, I also probably need some more info, like if a similar tree of folders should be build under mail/components/search/searchplugins, and if not, what should be done with duplicate filenames, etc...

My advice would be to not touch l10n repos at all for now, given cross channel (same repo is used for multiple versions of Thunderbird). I can help removing those files when necessary, in the meantime they'll just stay in the repo and be unused. Searchplugins have no relation with Pontoon at all.

Side thought: I would strongly suggest to clean up searchplugins when moving them around, or soon after. You'll will have duplicates, broken searchplugins, and search defined for locales that don't ship anywhere. It would also be nice to clean up all open bugs related to search and TB…

Volunteers? ;-)

The attached script copies all searchplugin files from L10NBASEDIR to DESTDIR, where DESTDIR is the tree folder. Instead of moving the files, I copy them, because they need to stay in the l10n-directory for other builds. If a file already exists, you are prompted to overwrite it (flag -i) The original file attributes are preserved (flag -p)

Maybe wsmwk can help create a query for all open bugs related to search and TB and we can see if they need truiaging and wqhat needs to be done to fix them

https://mzl.la/2HNUbzL is a quick and dirty query. I'm unsure what a more sophisticated query might look like

I was more thinking of this https://mzl.la/2t9dhL7