Hi, During the Extremadura meeting, we decided to launch an NMU campaign for l10n bugs. The first step of such a campaign is to detect which packages have long-standing l10n bugs. I've written a "dl10n-nmu" script, available in the debian-l10n project CVS on alioth [1], which scores packages according to the number and the age of l10n bugs.
The results (daily updated) are available at http://haydn.debian.org/~thuriaux-guest/l10n-nmu/nmu_bypackage.html http://haydn.debian.org/~thuriaux-guest/l10n-nmu/nmu_maintainer.html This script detects all l10n bugs filled against a package, tries to detect those concerning po-debconf (which is our main target for NMU), and scores them according to the following rule: score = sum ( age_of_the_bug ) For example, if the package foo has the following bugs: 1 [INTL:nl] Dutch debconf templates translation filled 8 weeks ago 2 [INTL:pt_BR] debconf translation update filled 15 weeks ago 3 Problem with the display in an UTF-8 environment filled 32 weeks ago 1 will score 8, 2 will score 15 and 3 will score 0 as it is not a po-debconf related bug. The total score will therefore be 23. There are many false-positives and false-negatives, as this ranking is based on the subject field, which is actually not very standardized. It could be good if every translation team coordinator retitles the bugs according to a common template. We use for French: <package>: [INTL:fr] French debconf templates translation if there is no debian/po/fr.po file in the package, and <package>: [INTL:fr] French debconf templates translation update otherwise. For program translation, replace "debconf templates" by "program", and for manpages, by "manpages". As you can see on the pages, there are packages "not using debconf" and packages "not in unstable". Unless someone volunteers to clear these bugs, I will take care of them. Note also that it is only a ranking, packages with a low score shouldn't be dealt with. Suggestions, comments and patches are obviously welcomed. [1] http://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-l10n -- Thomas Huriaux
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