Quoting Joey Hess ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > The translations are keeping up admirably, despite my constant attempts to > knock them all below 90%. ;-) We have 20 above that line. There is not a lot of > time in 3 weeks for a protracted string freeze, so I would like to know whter > one seems necessary at all, and whether a very short one, such as a 2 day > string freeze, would be enough to at least get the top 20 languages to 100%.
As of yesterday evening, the situation is very good. We can make 6 different categories for languages : As the following shows, a very short summary is -beta3 will be 100% complete for 23 languages -beta3 may be 10% complete for 8 additional languages The number of fully supoprted languages will then be 23-31. Spanish is, as Joey suspected, the most worrying case. 1) 16 Languages with constantly active translators Those are updated very quickly as soon as one change occurs. Will certainly be at 100% when needed, even without official string freeze: Simplified Chinese Ukrainian Brazilian Portuguese Lithuanian Japanese Hungarian French Greek Catalan Albanian Slovakian Czech Dutch Polish Russian Danish 2) 8 Languages updated less often but with known responsive translators Those are updated less often, but will certainly be at 100% when needed. The updates are less frequent because of translation teams method of work or because the translator is alone. Some of these could be put in the 1st category : the border is very thin German Portuguese Finnish Bosnian Italian Norwegian Nynorsk Norwegian Bokmal 3) 5 Languages with strong effort in the past but less updates recently Several of these were at 100% for beta2 but didn't get much updates recently. They most often rely on a single translator. Some action for "awaking" translators may be needed (no offense intended here....). Spanish Bulgarian Arabic Slovenian Swedish (needs help) 4) 3 Languages with recent effort Those started very recently (way after beta2) and the work is still in progress for hitting 100%. Busy translators which may only need to be helped for finding out what remains to be translated. Korean Turkish Traditional Chinese (only 15% currently) 5) * Languages with currently anecdotic work Those are less likely to be finished. For some of these, I got contacts but no worked has started yet. Galician (old translations) Irish (asked Alastair) no (will be switch to nb/nn, followed by pere) English (only needed for one package) Farsi/Persian (got contacts with a possible translator. This is the language which is spoken in Iran) Northern Saami (work from Skolelinux?) Latvian (mailed translator : no answer yet) Hebrew (got some contacts but no news for a while) 6) Important languages missing Translators seeked....list is non exhaustive Icelandic Afrikaans (or some other ZA official languages. Zulu first?) Swahili Croatian Serbian Macedonian Romanian Estonian Vietnamese Javanese Hindi (or several other Indian languages) Bengali Esperanto Tamil Thai Hausa -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]