On Sat. July 10th, I ended the string freeze for D-I, ran a last sync of translations and began uploading D-I packages (which lasted for most of Sunday July 11th). Before doing this, I deactivated three languages: Serbian, Welsh, Wolof. These had absolutely no updates since the release of lenny and I got no answer at all from their respective translators, despite desperate attempts during the last week. Please note that the string freeze was extended for one full week. I have to say that I'm not entirely happy with the way some translations are managed. Though the majority of translators are well following debian-i18n and do their best to update their work when suggested to do so.....a remaining group of languages are more loosely maintained and I have to repeat private contacts over and over before I get a chance to find someone wanting to update translations. This is by far the most time consuming task about l10n coordination and it requires up to 4 weeks of constant efforts, recurrent reminders and more and more alarming messages....in order to see something happening. Still, we finally managed to have 65 supported languages in what will becomes Debian Installer beta1 in a few weeks. Thanks a lot to all people who worked on this. Please notice that, at this time, all synchronization of translations in level 1 are suspended. Of course, now you guys can concentrate on levels 2 and 3. There's always somethign to do! --
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: Digital signature