Re: D-I progress

[Clytie Siddall <clytie@riverland.net.au>]

On 29/04/2005, at 2:54 PM, Christian Perrier wrote:

> At this moment, this "gates opening" is planned for July 14th, during
> Debconf.
>
> We first need to evaluate the impact this will have on D-I images
> sizes...which is quite a big work. I will soon test this by opening
> the gates for one language, then recompile all packages which belong
> to the "initrd" (initial ramdisk image) which is what we have the
> biggest size constraints for.
>
> A simple difference will then give me the impact of one new language
> to this size and thus allow to calculate whether adding The 5-6
> languages that are waiting would break everything or not.
>
> So, be patient..:-)

Oh, we can be patient. It took us a thousand years to get rid of some 
unwanted visitors ... but we really were in a bad mood by the end of 
it. :D

S'okay. Thankyou for explaining. I hope Vietnamese can be added to the 
active languages. Does this waiting period mean that our translations 
are not available to our user group yet?

from Clytie (vi-VN, team/nhóm Gnome-vi)

Clytie Siddall--Renmark, in the Riverland of South Australia

Ở thành phố Renmark, tại miền sông của Nam Úc