Yes... and you are not the only one who can see that. Indeed, that "inactivity" is one of the reasons why Galician Government FLOSS Center has decided to choose Ubuntu instead of Debian as the base of its desktop developments [0].
It is not possible to trust in a software distro whose 'localization community' means... just one person. Too weak, too vulnerable, too unsustainable in the long term [1], as you may easily understand. Unless you trust in pregnant birds, as the old galician proverb says. Yours, -- [0] http://apt.mancomun.org/ [1] As an user, I detected that potential danger at December 2006. So I decided to contribute changing the Debian l10n galician community status from "non-existant" to "existant". I achieved to attract near 60 motivated volunteers to support the creation of the debian-l10n-galician _public_ mailing list, so it was finally created in order to stablish an open collaboration channel for all us interested in Debian localization to galician language. http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=404451 But: just after the creation of that list, it seems that Debian internal decission making process decided to exclude their own galician l10n mailing list from the entire localization workflow, as the absence of messages in the archive clearly demostrates. Perhaps that strange behaviour can be based on this: http://lists.debian.org/debian-i18n/2006/12/msg00194.html Even if that is the reason as it is not, the results of your excluding policy are very visible: you changed the state of the galician l10n Debian community from "active" (and motivated) to "inactive" (and reluctant). As the Coordinator of the Government of Galicia FLOSS Center [2] that turns impossible for me to support at the official channels the convenience of using and investing on a GNU/Linux distro like Debian which is uncapable to maintain a galician localization community; specially when the same people subscribed to the debian-l10n-galician mailing list are succesfuly involved and active in other free software projects. Of course, my duties as a civil servant will not unallow me to continue contributing with Debian in a personal way. In this sense, and as that Debian user who is the founder of the galician l10n debian mailing list, I might inform you that our list will remain inactive until you decide to allow galician people to collaborate. Of course if you prefer to maintain that "inactive" status, I will respect it, even when it's clearly a wrong decisition in the long term, from my point of view. All that summarized: Debian exclusive trust in Tarrío, makes me trusting in Tarrío by his valuable contribution, while at the same time makes me untrusting Debian itself, at least in the i18n part of the things. [2] http://www.mancomun.org/ Christian Perrier escrebeu: > Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > > Hi Nicolas, > > > > Galician language missed there. > > > Well, as far as we know, the team does not use pseudo-URLs in a > mailing list to track down work. > > Indeed, debian-l10n-galician is mostly...inactive as far as I can see. > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
