On 16/11/2006, at 8:07 PM, Jens Seidel wrote:
This is sad. :(Indeed. I do not know any other Free software project which does this.<snip>
I'm very sorry that my initial email was misunderstood. Perhaps I didn't express myself clearly enough.
I meant, "It's very sad that these languages are not actively supported by translators."
I do think there is some use in publicizing this situation, perhaps in other projects, because other translators might be interested in participating.
If anybody told me that Vietnamese was unmaintained in another project, I would want to do something about it.
So I think maybe other translators will feel the same way. :)Since Christian has already written to the Debian translators for those languages, and not had any response, and he's already mentioned the situation here on several occasions, it looks like there's nobody here who wants to work on those languages. So maybe it's time to publicize their needs more widely.
That was what I was trying to say.I was not, at any stage, criticizing the criteria used to decide which languages would be supported. I have great respect for the thoroughness of the D-I team, which in my case at least, has resulted in an initial translation which has been carefully polished over 17 months. I would _like_ to have seen my translation released with Debian much earlier, but I realize now that the extra time has given me the chance to do a lot more QA, and supporting translations (e.g. Installer Manual, Reference Card). "Etch" will do my community proud. :)
from Clytie (vi-VN, Vietnamese free-software translation team / nhóm Việt hóa phần mềm tự do)
http://groups-beta.google.com/group/vi-VN
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