(sorry, these sessions cannot be video-recorded) Here are my notes from this session. Attendees, please feel free to correct these if you think I screwed with the conclusions. Attendees: Luk Claes, Frans Pop, Eddy Petrisor, Nicolas Spalinger, Nicolas François, Andreas Barth (end of session), Jean René, Gerfried Fuchs, Felipe van de Wiel, Daniel Glassey, two other people whose name I can't remember....and, folks, really sorry if I forgot you in the list. It's late here..:) Introduction by Luk Claes about what is a release goal: release goals should have a title filing bugs against things that need fixing each goal needs advocate who can report for need internal manager inside the release team (would be Luk for i18n stuff) need to know how many issues are related to this release goal need a roadmap need to know which issues are essential and which are nice to have Below, the numbered item have been qualified as proposed release goals. Non numbered items have been "ruled out". 1) Support for packages' description translation in the archive critical: get automated updates of the archive critical: support in d-i? nice to have: support in the archive tools (aptitude, apt-cache). Some advocate: Michael Bramer 2) Switch remaining debconf translations to use gettext pretty easy to achieve we have the tools for this advocate: Nicolas François (or Thomas Huriaux if he's OK for that) *) "tdebs" and related ideas (see wiki page) still moving ideas not really ready for being a release goal *) Use more langs in D-I. Frans Pop-->memory impact. Still that problem that we have no way to unload translations goal to improve cdebconf to avoid loading translations twice suggestions by Coling Watson to use memory map Nicolas François could work on this but this is more a d-i release goal next step could be a gettext backend for debconf and store translations in mo files *) Promote --previous in gettext: could be a "pet release goal" 0.16.1 is in stable so we can push this Gerfried "Rhonda" Fuchs volunteers to make an annoucement in d-d-a to promote the use among debconf and native packages first po-debconf, then native packages we have control of, then others need fixing kbabel (to remove previous translations when fixed), poedit (to avoid screwing PO files with such former translation comments) and the like 3) Prepare the system for translatable NEWS.Debian files would need apt-listchanges to be priority important needs changes to po4a enforcing on all packages will be hard (could be lenny+1) what about NEWS.Debian on the installed system? How to store advocate: Steve Langasek 4) Support for UTF-8 encoded manpages needs patching groff, push it to upstream seems easy to achieve and part of the general UTF-8 plan advocate: Nicolas François 5) Prepare the system to be able to have a default font for each language would need a Better set of fonts installed for each language we have what's needed to install a set of fonts depending on the language However, how to make the default font the correct one ? something like update-font_alternatives could be an idea (aba) then it could become a release goal advocate: Nicolas Spalinger --
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