<troll size="huge">There is a conspiracy against translators and translation teams</troll>
For instance, the current debconf translation statistics give 90% as the translation ratio for debconf templates in French. This ratio is constant for months despite the daily efforts of the team. Indeed, this should be near 98-99%. The remaining 8-9% are just sitting in the BTS. Same ratio for several other l10n teams. Why this�? Let's have a look at http://graal.ens-lyon.fr/~mquinson/debian/po-debconf.fr.html (Martin, could you add a calculation of "translation ratio if all bugs were fixed" here?) -maintainers constantly changing templates for their package. This is mostly the first part of the above page ("Packages with po-debconf support and for which translation is underway") We see here packages which had recent template changes. Of course, most of the time, the maintainer does not really consider translators and just uploads his/her package with modified templates, not caring about fuzzied translations. Moreover, after, this he/she receives updates, from the French team as well as other teams Some of you guys take care of them...and after a few days upload a new version with the updated templates. Thanks to you, you're by chance the majority. Obviously, some don't give a s***t about these updates and the translations sit in the BTS for WEEKS (look at the bloody stats!!). 143 days, 106 days, 101 days...... Also, please stop changing templates over and over. Some seem to be very good specialists at doing this and this really pisses off translators, especially when changes are done without coordination with translators. Sometimes, also, writing silly useless templates is involved (but here, bug reports for debconf abuse most often follow very quickly)....or writing them not very carefully, then receive typo bug reports... -maintainers being lazy for incorporating translations after adding debconf stuff or switching to po-debconf This is the " Packages with po-debconf support and for which translation is to do" part of the above page Here we have packages which, most often, switched to the use of po-debconf....very often because one of us, translators, provided a patch for doing so. After the switch, maintainers have received translation updates from various translation teams. And, here again, it seems they don't care of these (after all, they're wishlist bugs, yeah�? And who cares about wishlist bugs). What really justifies waiting for 222 days, 160 days, 134 days before uploading a package just including an extra debian/po/xx.po file? Folks, I mentioned in my debconf talk that maintainers/translators war are way over. Please act for this to remain true. Please UPLOAD fixed packages and, at least temporarily, raise the translation issues in your TODO list. Otherwise, I'm afraid some "l10n NMU" will start happening soon and I'm pretty sure this will raise some flame wars again about what justifies NMU's. End of pissed off bubulle rant.... --
