Need for help in handling l10n for several packages

[Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org>]

Several of you known that I currently handle the l10n part of several
packages, with the blessing of their respective maintainers.

This is very well received by package maintainers who can focus on
more"code productive" activities.

This task is not heavily time consuming when looking package by
package, but all of them combined need some extra load and I need to
free time for others parts of the project.

So, I'd like to offer this task to some of my fellow translator
colleagues.

For this, you need to:

-have a very good knowledge of l10n issues in general and the use of
 gettext tools (msgmerge, msgcat, etc)

-have a good practice of CVS or SVN

-have an Alioth account..:-)

-subscribe to the package tracking system for the relevant packages
 (http://packages.qa.debian.org/)

-have a correct knowledge of the bug tracking system (manipulating bugs by
 mail, know about tags....)

-follow the package status with regards to l10n and be able to discuss
 and help the maintainer

That sounds to be a lot of skills, but actually several translators
fit this description..:-)

The relevant packages are:

-debconf
-console-data (to be replaced by kbd for etch)
-iso-codes
-aptitude
-console-common (maybe not needed)
-localization-config (its maintainer can handle the very small l10n,
 though)
-popularity-contest
-pppconfig (no access no commits, but helping the maintainer is needed)
-xdebconfigurator (very small work)
-discover1 (low activity)
-menu (Bill can handle it well alone, though)

I currently keep shadow (for which I'm the maintainer) and dpkg/apt
(they're maintained with arch, which makes the transition less easy to
do as there's an important learning curve for using tla or baz).

So, please send me "candidatures" and I'll assist you in the
transition. Dennis Stampfer already has such access so if he wants to
take some over, he will get priority. But don't be shy for that
reason..:-)



This will also need tha maintainers are OK with that of course, but I
think I can manage convincing them..:-)



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