On Wed, 2004-09-29 at 09:26 +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > > > I'm am under the impression that you all care about l10n as much as > > > possible but may lack the needed resources for being able to handle > > > the flow of translation updates you receive (please correct me if I'm > > > wrong...false impressions come very quickly). > > > > > Actually I've simply not been processing them. > > I've seen that in the past, you handled these quite well...but maybe > such help could allow you to focus on more important tasks.. > Indeed, my reason for not processing them was simply the upcoming sarge release (eventually) and I prefer to leave packages in a "known good" state just in case there are urgent bug fixes that need to go in ... and then do the pretty after the release. > > I'm pretty much working on dpkg in arch now, it's a far more capable > > system than CVS for multi-person working. It'd be best for me if you > > tagged off my arch repository and did the l10n updates there. > > That probably may be done. It just requires me to learn how to use > arch, install the required tools on my both systems (home server > (woody) and laptop (unstable)) and practice a bit. > > What are the "checkout/commit" usual commands with arch? > Some good resources: http://www.gnu.org/software/gnu-arch/tutorial/arch.html http://mail.gnu.org/archive/html/gnu-arch-users/2003-09/msg00034.html (that last one is an IRC conversation between Colin Walters and a newbie, it's a *great* arch intro) Once you're up and running, you can grab the dpkg sources with: tla register-archive http://people.ubuntu.com/~scott/arch/personal/ tla get scott@netsplit.com--2004/dpkg--devo--1.10 dpkg I'll be glad to give you any help you need getting arch running (the learning climb is a little steep, but the view from the top is well worth it) and getting going on your own dpkg branch. > > > At the minimum, if such co-maintenance is not OK for you, please at > > > least consider some temporary help in order to get a translation > > > upload of your packages before the distribution release. There is > > > still maybe time enough for that. > > > > > I have already specifically ruled out making such a release, on the > > basis that a rushed translation job would be worse than no translation > > job. > > Well, as usual, the maintainer's decision is the final decision, no > problem...though I don't lose hope for convincing you that a > translation upload will be safe...:-) > Well, if you're willing to go over the translation updates, "own" them, nag people to get the existing ones up to date and add missing languages -- I can be convinced quite easily :o) Scott -- Have you ever, ever felt like this? Had strange things happen? Are you going round the twist?
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