[RFC] Internationalization release goals for Lenny

Nicolas François · External Since: Jan 06, 2005 Posts: 48

Hi,

We should prepare for the RM a set of I18N release goals for Lenny.

Grisu already sent a mail regarding translation of description to the
debian-release mailing list, but there are probably other goals.

Here are some ideas:
* DDTP
+ Support for translated description in the package managers.
(Are there package tools which are missing this support now?)
+ Translation material available on the mirrors
(IIRC, this is available on most mirrors for sid, but not for lenny)
* Get rid of non po-debconf templates.
* New channel for distribution of translated material (tdeb, language
packs or others)
* allow support for more languages in DI
(memory/space issues, support for regional CDs, etc.)

Please send your goals to the mailing list, or if you are attending
Debconf, talk about them during the I18N work sessions.

We can also define some soft goals which would not block the release, but
would be nice to have:
* promote --previous in gettext.
It is not visible by users, but it should help translator to update
translations faster with an higher quality.

Some translation teams may also want to set some soft release goals:
* every po-debconf strings translated in French Wink

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Thomas Huriaux · External Since: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 30

Nicolas François <nicolas.francois RemoveThis @centraliens.net> (17/06/2007):
> We should prepare for the RM a set of I18N release goals for Lenny.
>
> Grisu already sent a mail regarding translation of description to the
> debian-release mailing list, but there are probably other goals.
>
> Here are some ideas:
> * DDTP
> + Support for translated description in the package managers.
> (Are there package tools which are missing this support now?)
> + Translation material available on the mirrors
> (IIRC, this is available on most mirrors for sid, but not for lenny)
> * Get rid of non po-debconf templates.
> * New channel for distribution of translated material (tdeb, language
> packs or others)
> * allow support for more languages in DI
> (memory/space issues, support for regional CDs, etc.)

* UTF-8 manpages

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Thomas Huriaux · External Since: Sep 01, 2006 Posts: 30

Christian Perrier <bubulle RemoveThis @debian.org> (17/06/2007):
> > * UTF-8 manpages
>
> Some ppl talked to me about this here. I suppose that using po4a for
> man pages l10n will help, right ?

Hmm, I don't see how. Changing the po4a encoding option is as easy as a
script converting all manpages.

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Michael Bramer · External Since: Mar 17, 2006 Posts: 23

On Sun, Jun 17, 2007 at 10:21:16AM +0200, Nicolas François wrote:
> We should prepare for the RM a set of I18N release goals for Lenny.

yes.

> Grisu already sent a mail regarding translation of description to the
> debian-release mailing list, but there are probably other goals.
>
> Here are some ideas:
> * DDTP
> + Support for translated description in the package managers.
> (Are there package tools which are missing this support now?)

I think we have the basic support. But maybe we need some nice
feature in some frontends (like to select the searching lang, etc.),
to config the language in d-i, apt-setup, ...

> + Translation material available on the mirrors
> (IIRC, this is available on most mirrors for sid, but not for lenny)

yes, but the sid files on ftp-master ist 12 month old...

In the result we have to do and coordinate some tasks.

> * New channel for distribution of translated material (tdeb, language
> packs or others)

I don't think this is a good lenny goal, maybe a lenny+1 goal.

But we should start to diskuss this on debconf. This is not only a
i18n task. We can improve the system/fix some problems in our package
system with some changes.

Gruss
Grisu
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