Please help DDTP in the final step towards the relaese (Was: ddtp translation reaching sid - status)
Hi Thomas,
Da: Thomas Vincent <thomas@vinc-net.fr>
Oggetto: ddtp translation reaching sid - status
Data: giovedì 18 febbraio 2021, 12:23 PM
A: s3v <c0llapsed@yahoo.it>
Cc: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org
> Hi,
>
> Le 17/02/2021 à 14:52, s3v a écrit :
>> first of all, very sorry for putting you in a rush by resurrecting this task.
>> We (Italian Team) are working hard on package translations but there are serious
>> concerns about missing migration for translation files into the Debian archive.
>
> I'm fully aware of the release cycle and totally understand your concern.
>
>>
>> Soft freeze is a fact and hard freeze is coming and quickly; stable release doesn't
>> accept new files...
>> What can we do to prevent Bullseye from having obsolete translations dated March
>> 2020?
>
> The only missing piece is allowing dak to access the ddtp machine to
> retrieve the translations. If I understand it correctly, it just means
> creating a user on the machine and adding dak's key.
>
> I have opened RT ticket #8486 in December to ask for that and have not
> had an answer yet. I also tried to ping the DSA team on IRC but got no
> response either.
> Since I was kind of expecting that, I also asked to FTP masters if the
> retrieval of translations could be done differently (i.e. publicly
> expose the archive so they could download it instead of using rsync).
> They told me they preferred rsync for a lot of good reasons, and adding
> a user is so fast anyway. Well…
>
> So at this point, I don't know what to do. If anyone was able to
> successfully ping the DSA team, it would be greatly appreciated.
>
> We've started this migration journey more than 3 years ago and I'm out
> of stamina, to be honest.
>
> Thomas
>
>>
>> I think this issue needs to be addressed quite early at this stage of the ongoing
>> release cycle to make Developers/Maintainers (you, Andrey. Thanks!) able to fix
>> problems on the route.
>>
>> Thanks a lot for taking care of this.
>>
>>
We are very close to the end of the journey, giving up at this stage would be a shame.
Your and Andrey work will be lost, all translators work will be lost...
It's worth to make every effort until the last day before the release :)
I've CC'ed DPL. The platform reads [1]:
Reduce bottlenecks that affect our contributors. Gather frequent feedback on what's
holding individuals back from doing what they care about in Debian, and find ways to
reduce that friction. Improve on-line collaboration.
Dear DPL, can you please send a friendly poke to DSAs to help us to finalize the task?
DDTP is a little reality in Debian ecosystem and there are most important projects that
require your attention. I know.
However, all translators are waiting this step since years and we would like to push
our work into the archive for the sake of non-english users which will likely benefit
from having package descriptions in their language.
Thank for considering.
[1] https://www.debian.org/vote/2020/platforms/jcc
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