[Westwales] [Fwd: [Northwales] [Fwd: [Fsfe-uk] 3 days left until Welsh misses the debian-installer]]

Richard Smedley smedley358 at btinternet.com
Thu Sep 18 09:27:01 UTC 2008


-------- Forwarded Message --------
From: MJ Ray <mjr at phonecoop.coop>
To: fsfe-uk at gnu.org
Subject: [Fsfe-uk] 3 days left until Welsh misses the debian-installer
Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 09:37:47 +0100

Can anyone here give them a hand getting Welsh language support in the
debian installer, please?  It says the chances are low, but the
100-days projects shows that Welsh-language translators can do amazing
things sometimes.  See the email which follows:

Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 07:23:17 +0200
From: Christian Perrier <bubulle at debian.org>
To: debian-i18n at lists.debian.org, debian-boot at lists.debian.org
Subject: 3 days left: 10 languages in danger in D-I (D-I string freeze
	status)
Message-ID: <20080918052317.GA10443 at mykerinos.kheops.frmug.org>

3 days left before the end of the string freeze

NEW for today: Slovenian completed for sublevels 1-3
	       Ukrainian completed for sublevels 1-3
	       Catalan back to full 100%
	       Big progress for Macedonian

Languages meeting the release criteria: 50
------------------------------------------

Already activated and complete for level 1: 44
 Arabic, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Dzongkha, Greek,
 Esperanto, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Gujarati,
 Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese,
 Georgian, Khmer, Korean, Lithuanian, Malayalam, Marathi, Norwegian
 Bokmål, Nepali, Dutch, Norwegian Nynorsk, Polish, Portuguese,
 Brazilian Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Tamil,
 Thai, Turkish, Vietnamese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Already activated and complete for sublevels 1 and 2: 6
Belarusian, Irish, Kurdish, Punjabi, Slovenian, Ukrainian, Wolof

Not yet activated languages complete for sublevels 1 and 2: 0


Languages failing to meet the release criteria: 23
--------------------------------------------------

Activated languages: 10
Amharic, Bengali, Bosnian, Danish, Estonian, Latvian,
Macedonian, Northern Sami, Albanian, Tagalog


Not yet activated languages: 13
Afrikaans, Welsh, Persian, Armenian, Icelandic, Kazakh, Kannada,
Malagasy, Malay, Serbian, Telugu, Urdu, Xhosa
 (chances to get these in lenny are quite low)

If your language is listed in "failing to meet the release criteria",
please do not scream out. For many of these languages, only very few
translated strings are missing and the needed update is very
small. But, still, do your best for this to happen.

The D-I i18n documentation is available at 
http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/doc/i18n/



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