---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: info info <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 14:35:44 +0545 Subject: Re: (forw) Debian Installer string freeze: translations to complete (deadline July 4th) To: Vijay Shrestha <[email protected]>
On 6/16/10, Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> wrote: > (2nd mail: the former one was using a wrong From address, sorry for this) > > Hello, this mail is sent to known translators of a few languages > currently supported in Debian Installer but which had no > updates since Debian released lenny back in February 2009: > - Bosnian (you don't want that while you have Debconf next year, right?) > - Dzongkha (hey, has Bhutan switched to Windows entirely?) > - Croatian (knock, knock, Josip, I know you always pop up late..:-)) > - Indonesian > - Khmer > - Latvian (Aigars, no pic from me at Debconf if lv not complete!) > - Macedonian > - Nepali > - Wolof > > > All these languages are mentioned as "in danger" in the following > mail, which I sent to the Debian developers announce mailing list, as > well as the debian-i18n mailing list. > > The needed updates are not that big, as these languages were complete > when lenny was released and not so many changes happened in D-I since then > > Please get in touch privately with me so that we can examine the > situation for your language, together. > > Current status for all these languages: > sublevel1: 495 translated messages, 18 fuzzy translations, 12 > untranslated > messages. > sublevel2: 485 translated messages, 18 fuzzy translations, 24 > untranslated > messages. > sublevel3: 415 translated messages, 36 fuzzy translations, 27 > untranslated > messages. > sublevel4: 138 translated messages, 3 fuzzy translations. > sublevel5: 124 translated messages, 10 fuzzy translations, 1 > untranslated > message. > > > ----- Forwarded message from Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> ----- > > Date: Mon, 14 Jun 2010 18:53:02 +0200 > From: Christian PERRIER <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Debian Installer string freeze: translations to complete (deadline > July 4th) > X-Mailing-List: <[email protected]> archive/latest/1264 > X-CRM114-Status: Good ( pR: 32.3765 ) > > Debian Installer is currently under a full string freeze, as part of > the preparation of an upcoming release (a release of Debian > *Installer*, *not* a release of Debian). > > A string freeze is meant to allow translators to complete their work > without risking further changes of localized material. > > The string freeze lasts until July 4th 2010, 23:59. After this > deadline, udeb packages uploads will happen. Languages incomplete > in level 1, sublevels 1 and 2 (as defined in D-I l10n documentation > [1]) will be dropped from D-I. > > According to the latest localization status (published weekly, on > Mondays, in [email protected]), 41 languages [2] are in a > good enough shape for being kept in the Debian Installer language > selection menu. Even though some of them are not fully complete for > all sublevels, they are not "in danger". You can still bring them to > "full 100%" in [3]. > > 4 more languages [4] are "nearly out of danger" because they're only > missing a few localized strings in important user interaction > dialogs. Translators for these languages have been noticed to be > active but these languages are not fully "out of danger" until they're > complete > > More worrying is the status of the 20 remaining languages among the 65 > that are supported in lenny. These ones will be deactivated if they're > not updated in time. > > <yell>In short, if you're interested in D-I support for Amharic, > Bosnian, Welsh, Dzongkha, Galician, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, > Georgian, Kazakh, Khmer, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Malayalam, > Nepali, Serbian, Tagalog, Ukrainian, Wolof, it's time to wake up > NOW.</yell> > > If you're already a translator for D-I, you know what to do: update > sublevels 1 and 2 of level 1 *in priority*...and consider updating the > entire level 1. If you have trouble doing this, please get in touch > with me. > > If you are *not* a translator of D-I but are willing to help, please > mail [email protected] (or, alternatively, mail me > privately) so that we see what can be done. > > [1] http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/l10n > > > [2] "out of danger" languages > Arabic, Asturian, Bulgarian, Bengali, Czech, Danish, > German, Greek, Esperanto, Estonian, Basque > Spanish, Finnish, French, Irish, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Italian > Japanese, Korean, Lithuanian, Marathi, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, > Punjabi, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, > Swedish, Tamil, Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, > Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese > > [3] http://d-i.debian.org/l10n-stats > > [4] "nearly out of danger" languages > Belarusian, Catalan, Norwegian Nynorsk, > Brazilian Portuguese (promised to be completed in time) > > > > -- > > > > > > ----- End forwarded message ----- > > > -- With Regards, Vijay Kumar Shrestha -- FOSS Nepal mailing list: [email protected] http://groups.google.com/group/foss-nepal To unsubscribe, e-mail: [email protected] Mailing List Guidelines: http://wiki.fossnepal.org/index.php?title=Mailing_List_Guidelines Community website: http://www.fossnepal.org/
