Quoting Stephen Frost ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > Eh. Personally I tend to doubt it's lack of trust that's causing > translations to rot in the BTS.
As far as I know this is more maintainer laziness, for sure.. :-) I guess that in the future many translation will stop to rot in the BTS.. :-) We'll start with french translations. Not a lot of them are sleeping, because we already pissed off some maintainers, or even did some NMU's (yes, for wishlist bugs...). But some are getting quite old. Expect some NMU activity in the next weeks.... We will respect packages where this is obvious that new, complicated, releases are on their way, which are complicated (sympa, tetex-bin, ifhp...) but many other simple packages do not deserve this bad excuse.... A *lot* of brazilian portuguese, spanish, russian, german translations are sleeping in the BTS. Probably because these translation teams lack some manpower for doing both translations are *following* what happens to them. When asking for po-debconf switch, I personnally try to grab all old translation-related bugs in a single patch...but that complicates the work and days still have 24 hours.. :-) Of course, all this would be more easy if a translation tags exist in the BTS (see JFS proposals at Debconf3) PLEASE, maintainers, use translations we send to you. This is by far the easiest patches to use... :-)
