Dear List,
We need help in specially Bengali for Debian Installer translation updates. Please forward this mail to groups which can help in this. Contact Me and/or Christian Perrier for more details.
~ Kartik
---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Christian Perrier bubulle@debian.org Date: Sat, Sep 13, 2008 at 11:35 AM Subject: Lenny installer string freeze status 20080913 To: debian-i18n@lists.debian.org, debian-boot@lists.debian.org
8 days left before the end of the string freeze
NEW for today: Wolof completed sublevels 1 and 2
Languages meeting the release criteria: 46 ------------------------------------------
Already activated and complete for level 1: 41 Arabic, Bulgarian, Czech, German, Dzongkha, Greek, Spanish, Basque, Finnish, French, Galician, Gujarati, Hebrew, Hindi, Croatian, 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: 5 Belarusian, Esperanto, Hungarian, Punjabi, Wolof
Not yet activated languages complete for sublevels 1 and 2: 0
Languages failing to meet the release criteria: 31 --------------------------------------------------
Activated languages: 17 Amharic, Bengali, Bosnian, Catalan, Danish, Estonian, Kurdish, Latvian, Macedonian, Northern Sami, Slovenian, Albanian, Tagalog, Ukrainian
Not yet activated languages: 14 Afrikaans, Welsh, Persian, Irish, 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/