Hello, Otavio and I had a short discussion on IRC about a possible string freeze in order to "officially" ask to translators for completing their work (see [1] for last status report). I estimate the needed time for this to about 3-4 weeks. That may sound as a (too) long time, but I really need this to be able to do the needed prodding for languages that have "lost" their main translator (which now always happens for one or another). During the string freeze, developers would be required to avoid committing changes that involved modifications to localizable strings. Each of these would require a prior discussion in debian-boot and a formal ACK to commit. At the end of the string freeze, I'll publish a summary of the l10n status and we will decide what to do with languages that did not make it. As already applied earlier, the minimum requirement for a language to be activated is having sublevels 1 and 2 completed. Any language meeting this is automatically activated. Other languages will be examined on a case by case basis. It is hard to give a strict rule about activating or not, despite the missing completion. There could be exceptions that will be discussed publicly in debian-boot. I propose Sunday July 4th 32:59 as deadline for the string freeze. That leaves time during ealy July for a mass l10n upload and thus sets the first foundations of a beta release that could indeed be the Squeeze first release candidate. Does this sound like a reasonable plan? [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2010/05/msg00466.html --
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