Re: Wrong quote characters in finnish translation of installer guide

2006-10-02 Thread Eddy Petrișor
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Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> In web page
> http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/fi.i386/ch01s03.html
> the quote characters surrounding
> 
>   troijalaisilta
> 
> are not the quote characters normally used in Finnish, namely " as
> beginning and ending quote.

That is because the xsl transformation is not aware of that. You should:
1) be sure that what you say is correct :-)
2) send a patch to upstream (package docbook-xsl)

Note: I have sent such a patch for Romanian, but I am waiting for the
fixed version to reach Debian.

> See
>   http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/filt/info/mes2/merkkien-nimet.html
> in chapter 2.1 Suomi.
> 

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Re: [Translation-i18n] translating via an intermediate language

2006-10-02 Thread Danilo Segan
Hi Bruno,

On Thursday at 13:51, Bruno Haible wrote:

> The syntax for a mixed PO file could like this:
>
>   msgid "Hello, world!"
>   msgid[ru] "Здравствуй, мир!"
>   msgstr "Chào thế giới !"

I think the following would make more sense (except that the syntax
would conflict plural forms syntax):

   msgid "Hello, world!"
   msgstr[ru] "Здравствуй, мир!"
   msgstr[vi] "Chào thế giới !"

I know that some may still feel this is English-centered (which it
is), but we can then even have things like:

   msgid "Hello, wrld!"
   msgstr[en] "Hello, world!"
   msgstr[ru] "Здравствуй, мир!"
   msgstr[sr] "Здраво свете!"
   msgstr[vi] "Chào thế giới !"

Now, this might make people expect changes to MO format as well, but
we can instead transform single PO to multiple MO files.

And there would be a problem that some developers might start using
this container-PO format for all translations, which would be crap for
translators if they have to extract and merge their stuff, watching
for conflicts with others, etc.  So, that's the big risk I see with an
approach like this: it's too tempting to put all translations in
there, which is where your suggestion beats this one.

Another thing to be careful about is many-to-one-to-many mappings,
eg. what if both "Blah" and "Foo" translate to something like "Bar" in
language "trt":

  msgid "Blah"
  msgid[trt] "Bar"
  msgstr ...

  msgid "Foo"
  msgid[trt] "Bar"
  msgstr ...

And we use "trt" as our base language, then "Bar" is clearly not a
unique msgid, which is exactly why I feel msgstr there makes more
sense.

(as a sidenote, I already have a working PHP and gettext-based system
which does gettext_in_alternate_language(msgid) instead of displaying
msgid; this can simply be done in PO tools with pointers to two PO
files: "use this one for base messages, translate into this one")

> The PO file editors would have to be taught to display msgid[ru] in preference
> to msgid if the translator has said so.

And I think it's no more work to ask them to simply support reading
translations from another PO file and use that in place of msgid's.


Cheers,
Danilo



Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:54:13AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 11:42:35PM -0700, Steve Langasek wrote:
> > On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 02:35:19AM -0300, Otavio Salvador wrote:
> > > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 07:13:21PM +0200, Luk Claes wrote:
> > > >> Would you still accept an ABI change of apt to support description
> > > >> translations into etch?
> 
> That's why I considered it so late for uploading to unstable. I didn't
> wanted to upload it without real-world testing because of the risk of
> having to break the ABI yet again to fix mistakes in the code.
> 
> We may have to recompile the rdepends of libapt anyway because of
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390189 
> (recent g++ upload 4.1.1ds1-14 has a g++ regression)

Debian was always proud because of many software packages. Nevertheless
it's a real drawback that package descriptions are only available in
English. Many person with no English skills do not know the packages
Debian provides and ignored these because of this.

Once I installed a system with translated package descriptions for a
friend I remember first time users of Debian browsing description just
for fun, testing these packages, comparing with other systems, ...
Without they never touched aptitude and complained about the usability.

Consider how many people whould profit from it! Ten thousands, hundred
thousands of users?! Please compare this with possible disadvantages and
choose the proper solution!

Once it enters testing I would also ask additional users from various
lists (not only developers) to properly use and test it and would be
willing to help these users to report possible problems. I'm sure many
other people (translators and other) would do the same once you consider
the changes for Etch.

I now subscribed also to the APT bugs and will try my best ...

Jens


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Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Thijs Kinkhorst
On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:54 +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> Consider how many people whould profit from it!

I'm missing the following practical note a bit in this discussion: are
there actually a significant number of translations to take the
non-trivial venture of a very late apt update?

I value the importance of the DDTP project, but the translating effort
has only recently seriously started. Looking at the statistics[1], I see
that the best language has yet only one third of descriptions translated
in optional and extra, and steeply dropping to only a couple of
percentpoints for those after that.

Best translated are required/important/standard, but those descriptions
will be the least relevant to Joe Average, since these packages are
already installed for him.

Concluding, we will not be able to claim that Debian has "translated
package descriptions", except for a very small number of languages. I
think it's not worth the effort to risk delay or trouble for this; let's
focus on other areas in etch now and make sure etch+1 has a really
comprehensive set of translated descriptions.


Thijs


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Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Steve Langasek
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 12:54:13AM +0200, Michael Vogt wrote:
> > BTW, I count 18 binary packages that would need a rebuild for this.  This is
> > a decent-sized library transition in its own right.

> We may have to recompile the rdepends of libapt anyway because of
> http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=390189 
> (recent g++ upload 4.1.1ds1-14 has a g++ regression)



This version of g++-4.1 hasn't been accepted into etch yet, and there's been
no request from Matthias that we do so.  Letting it into etch as a freeze
exception suggests that we might have *other* packages fail to build as a
result of similar ABI regressions in other libraries.  That doesn't sound
like a good idea to me unless someone is offering to do a full
regression-test of testing using g++ 4.1.1-15.

> Upstream gcc bugreport:
> http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29289

>From this report, there's nothing to suggest the reverse-deps need to be
rebuilt, only that the lib needs to be rebuilt so that the reverse-deps
don't FTBFS.  Is there something I'm missing?

> Matthias is still waiting for a comment from upstream on this. It
> maybe enough to recompile apt with the current g++, but it maybe that
> the only save option is to change the soname and recompile a rdepends.

If there really is reason to believe this requires an soname change, I think
we should instead consider backing this patch out of g++-4.1 in unstable
until after the etch release, as compiler-induced ABI changes are clearly
*not* supposed to be happening during a toolchain freeze.

> > > There's no API changes from APT side so just binary NMUs are enough
> > > AFAIK.

> > So what is this ABI change that doesn't involve API changes?

> There is a API change involved. But it is backwards compatible so a
> recompile will be good enough. To make use of the translated
> descriptions the applications needs to be changed though. Patches are
> available for aptitude, python-apt, synaptic, libapt-front (0.3). 

> I hope this helps and I'm sorry for the bad timing with this request :/

FWIW, this didn't answer the question "what is the ABI change?" :)

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Re: [Translation-i18n] [translate-pootle] gettext with non-en source language

2006-10-02 Thread Jean-Christophe Helary


On 2 oct. 06, at 21:08, Bruno Haible wrote:


I foresee a possible scenario for example
where someone in francophone Africa writes in French which will be  
the
common language to use to translate into local languages. Not the  
best

choice to get you translations in all the world's languages, perhaps,
but the correct choice for their circumstances. I'm speaking quite
hypothetical now, of course.


Quite hypothetical, indeed. Africa is not yet connected to the  
programmer's
net. I got a single mail from Africa in 14 years. (Not counting the  
masses

of Nigeria connection spam :-))



Maybe you are not on the right lists. Making an estimate of  
localization needs based on the number of people who get in touch  
with you in English (or any other language you use) is certainly not  
a statistically proven method.


There is tremendous localization activity in African countries (not  
limited to South Africa) and other developer-poor areas. See Javier  
Sola's work in Cambodia. Of course, people who work on localization  
create pools of users and developers who do not need to communicate  
in English. Do you see a lot of Chinese developers on the net  
expressing themselves in English ? If you do are they not only the  
tip of an "iceberg" of Chinese only (or close) developers who do not  
feel the need to share with English only (or close) developers ?


Jean-Christophe Helary





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Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Jens Seidel
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:17:18PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:54 +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> > Consider how many people whould profit from it!
> 
> I'm missing the following practical note a bit in this discussion: are
> there actually a significant number of translations to take the
> non-trivial venture of a very late apt update?
> 
> I value the importance of the DDTP project, but the translating effort
> has only recently seriously started. Looking at the statistics[1], I see

See http://ddtp.debian.net/ for this link [1].

> that the best language has yet only one third of descriptions translated
> in optional and extra, and steeply dropping to only a couple of
> percentpoints for those after that.
> 
> Concluding, we will not be able to claim that Debian has "translated
> package descriptions", except for a very small number of languages. I
> think it's not worth the effort to risk delay or trouble for this; let's
> focus on other areas in etch now and make sure etch+1 has a really
> comprehensive set of translated descriptions.

Right. Nevertheless there are currently already at least 4 languages
with (partly many more than) 1000 package descriptions. Also consider
that the translation effort is independent of the Etch release (external
database, no package upload are required, except of course for apt).

Up to the release of Etch (for CD based installations) or even after it
(network connection) users could profit from it. I can also guarantee
that the effort will increase dramatically once we know that APT would
support it. Currently the matra is: "Let's ignore package descriptions
as these will probably not be usable in Etch at all".

Once users see a incomplete project they want to help, right!?

Jens


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Announce of the upcoming NMU for the dokuwiki package

2006-10-02 Thread Mohammed Adn??ne Trojette
Dear maintainer of dokuwiki and Debian translators,

On September 29th, I sent a notice to the maintainer of the dokuwiki
Debian package, about a fix I wanted to apply to dokuwiki's templates
and to call for translations for it.

I announced the intent to build and possibly upload a non-maintainer upload
for this package.

The package maintainer approved this NMU so I will start building it now.

The package is currently translated to: cs de es fi fr sv vi

The following translations are incomplete: cs de es fi fr sv vi
   (even after applying pending l10n bugs, of course)

If you did any of the, currently incomplete, translations you will get a
copy of this announcement BCCd to you. Please review the translation.

Other translators also have the opportunity to create new translations for
this package. Once completed, please send them directly to me so I can
incorporate them into the package being built.

The deadline for receiving updates and new translations is 09 Oct 2006. If you
are not in time you can always send your translation to the BTS.

You can download the pot, and any po, files from:

  http://people.debian.org/~lwall/i18n/pots/dokuwiki

If the maintainer objects to this process I will immediately abort my NMU
and send him/her all updates I receive.

Otherwise the following will happen (or already has):

 29 Sep 2006   : send the first intent to NMU notice to
 the package maintainer.
 02 Oct 2006   : post a NMU announcement to debian-i18n with you
 (maintainer) CC'ed
 09 Oct 2006   : deadline for receiving translation updates
 11 Oct 2006   : build the package and upload it to DELAYED/2-day
 send the NMU patch to the BTS
 13 Oct 2006   : NMU uploaded to incoming
 14 Oct 2006   : NMU enters unstable

Thanks for your efforts and time.
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Re: [translate-pootle] [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-10-02 Thread Bruno Haible
F Wolff wrote:
> > What you call "gettext's English-centredness" is only a recommendation
> > in the doc. You _can_ use another language as the language of the source
> > files and the msgids in the PO files. Did you try it? Did you encounter
> > problems?
> 
> Well, I did not try it, but the example used here (Czech as source
> language) won't work, because it has three plural forms.

Good point. But this problem can be overcome by defining a function

const char *
cz_ngettext (const char *singular, const char *paucal, const char *plural,
 unsigned long n)
{
  const char *translation = ngettext (singular, plural, n);
  if (translation == singular || translation == plural)
return (n == 1 ? singular : n >= 2 && n <= 4 ? paucal : plural);
  else
return translation;
}

then using cz_ngettext in the source code, and finally passing the option
--keyword=cz_ngettext:1,3 to xgettext.

> I foresee a possible scenario for example
> where someone in francophone Africa writes in French which will be the
> common language to use to translate into local languages. Not the best
> choice to get you translations in all the world's languages, perhaps,
> but the correct choice for their circumstances. I'm speaking quite
> hypothetical now, of course.

Quite hypothetical, indeed. Africa is not yet connected to the programmer's
net. I got a single mail from Africa in 14 years. (Not counting the masses
of Nigeria connection spam :-))

> Although it would be interesting to see how
> many people will be able to contribute for the first time if
> understanding of English is removed as obstacle.

That appears to depend on the country's culture or economic situation. There
must be good knowledge of English in India, yet there are reportedly only
7 free software developers in whole India.

Bruno


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Re: [Translation-i18n] gettext with non-en source language

2006-10-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Jean-Christophe Helary wrote:
> In the next decades and starting very soon, the world's most  
> understood languages will be Chinese and Hindi, and especially those  
> two will have a huge influence on the IT world. And only the people  
> who don't read Chinese on Hindi are blind to that.
> 
> It is very short sighted to not take that into account.

Chinese and Hindi the most understood languages of the world? I doubt that.
Languages have in the past spread 1. through conquests, 2. through culture
(music, literature, cinema, ...). China (PRC) is an aggressive state (*),
but IMO it will not conquer the U.S. nor Europe in the next 50 years;
and India is not an aggressive state. Chinese culture is mostly unknown
in the rest of the world. Indian culture spreads out, but very slowly;
Bollywood will take a long time to replace Hollywood.

The influence of languages is large in IT world if 1. the language is
wide-spread in general, or 2. the language is wide-spread in IT, or
3. the top computer scientists come from a culture that speaks this
language. Neither the Chinese nor the Hindi language fits these criteria.

Bruno

(*) Don't forget that 3000 students were murdered by the government of the
"People's Republic of China" in June 1989!


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Re: Wrong quote characters in finnish translation of installer guide

2006-10-02 Thread Frans Pop
On Monday 02 October 2006 10:56, Eddy Petrișor wrote:
> Tapio Lehtonen wrote:
> > In web page
> > http://d-i.alioth.debian.org/manual/fi.i386/ch01s03.html
> > the quote characters surrounding
> >
> >   troijalaisilta
> >
> > are not the quote characters normally used in Finnish, namely " as
> > beginning and ending quote.
>
> That is because the xsl transformation is not aware of that. You
> should: 1) be sure that what you say is correct :-)
> 2) send a patch to upstream (package docbook-xsl)
>
> Note: I have sent such a patch for Romanian, but I am waiting for the
> fixed version to reach Debian.
>
> > See
> >   http://www.ling.helsinki.fi/filt/info/mes2/merkkien-nimet.html
> > in chapter 2.1 Suomi.

Eddy is correct. See also the file:
/usr/share/xml/docbook/stylesheet/nwalsh/common/fi.xml
That is where the relevant definitions are.

Cheers,
FJP


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Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Martijn van Oosterhout

On 10/2/06, Thijs Kinkhorst <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

I value the importance of the DDTP project, but the translating effort
has only recently seriously started. Looking at the statistics[1], I see
that the best language has yet only one third of descriptions translated
in optional and extra, and steeply dropping to only a couple of
percentpoints for those after that.


Not sure which statistics you're looking at, perhaps these? [1]

Sure, maybe the top language has only 33% of optional done, but
several languages cover the entire base install. Additionally, the
numbers are not fixed. As many (most?) descriptions are shared between
etch and sid, even after etch is released the descriptions will keep
getting updated and improved.


Best translated are required/important/standard, but those descriptions
will be the least relevant to Joe Average, since these packages are
already installed for him.


The goal should be making sure that most of the packages people have
installed are translated, as well as the most popular packages. That
is a much more acheivable goal, and I think that's attainable in the
near future...

I hope you're not suggesting we need to get all languages covering all
of optional before you think it is worthwhile?

As for whether it's enough to make it happen for etch, that's not my
call. But the vast majority of descriptions for etch+1 will be usable
for etch also, so the decision should *not* be based on whether the
descriptions are ready now.

Have a nice day,

[1] http://svana.org/kleptog/temp/ddts-stats.html
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Re: [Translation-i18n] translating via an intermediate language

2006-10-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hello Clytie,

> Another translator has  
> already mentioned doing this in Emacs: keeping the backup language PO  
> file as a reference. So if we could request:
> 
> msgid[en]
> msgid[xx]
> msgstr
> 
> in an editor, specifying the secondary msgid language in the prefs, ...

It can not be done purely in the editor. Because if, say, the Russian
translator updates her translation, correcting a mistake she did in
an earlier translation, and you translate from Russian to Vietnamese,
you need to be alerted of this. msgmerge needs to set the 'fuzzy'
flag when this happens. If it were just the editor which displays
a synthesis of vi.po and ru.po, this could not work. We really need
to save a (partial) copy of ru.po in vi.po.

> Current candidates for the secondary msgid language, which would  
> increase our translation resources, and make it possible for many  
> more translators to participate, include Russian, Spanish,  
> Portuguese, French, Afrikaans, Chinese and Hindi.

Absolutely!

Bruno


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Re: [Translation-i18n] translating via an intermediate language

2006-10-02 Thread Bruno Haible
Hi Danilo,

> > The syntax for a mixed PO file could like this:
> >
> >   msgid "Hello, world!"
> >   msgid[ru] "Здравствуй, мир!"
> >   msgstr "Chào thế giới !"
> 
> I think the following would make more sense (except that the syntax
> would conflict plural forms syntax):
> 
>msgid "Hello, world!"
>msgstr[ru] "Здравствуй, мир!"
>msgstr[vi] "Chào thế giới !"

The syntax could be reconciled with plurals. There is no problem writing
 msgstr[fr][0] "singulier"
 msgstr[fr][1] "pluriel"

But this syntax has two drawbacks:
  - It doesn't make it clear whether 'ru' or 'vi' is the target language.
Whereas the syntax with msgid[ru] makes it more clear what is the
input for the translator and where she puts her translation.
  - As you mentioned, there is a risk that people confuse it with a
"multi-language PO file".

> Another thing to be careful about is many-to-one-to-many mappings,
> eg. what if both "Blah" and "Foo" translate to something like "Bar" in
> language "trt":
> 
>   msgid "Blah"
>   msgid[trt] "Bar"
>   msgstr ...
> 
>   msgid "Foo"
>   msgid[trt] "Bar"
>   msgstr ...
> 
> And we use "trt" as our base language, then "Bar" is clearly not a
> unique msgid, which is exactly why I feel msgstr there makes more
> sense.

There is no uniqueness requirement for msgid[trt], indeed. In a case
like this, the translator would have to look at the msgid line too,
not only at her preferred msgid[trt] line.

> (as a sidenote, I already have a working PHP and gettext-based system
> which does gettext_in_alternate_language(msgid) instead of displaying
> msgid; this can simply be done in PO tools with pointers to two PO
> files: "use this one for base messages, translate into this one")

Interesting! And what are the practical experiences you or translators
made with it so far (except that it's useful :-))?

Bruno



Re: [Translation-i18n] translating via an intermediate language

2006-10-02 Thread Danilo Segan
Hi Bruno,

Today at 18:12, Bruno Haible wrote:

> Interesting! And what are the practical experiences you or translators
> made with it so far (except that it's useful :-))?

Well, both positive and negative.

The biggest negatives: some had problem actually finding the relevant
strings in the UI, since it was not so predictable anymore (i.e. you
have to use same language in the UI as well, and what seem like
"original" strings may change underneath you); it also became a bit
confusing when some strings were not translated in the "alternate
base" language, so they got the English string, but this was well
documented behaviour so it didn't cause much problems. ;)

As for the positives, except for being useful ;), it also allowed me
to actually develop in English, while multilingual users (translators)
were expected to be mostly familiar with Esperanto (except for the
notable few whose main task was to translate my English to Esperanto)
or any other language.

The project never ended up being finished (lack of coordination
between two groups: developers and target users), so there was not too
much practical experience (only intimate members of the team worked
with this, and we all know they are not useful for usability studies
;).

What has been developed so far has been done under GPL, so once I
clean-up some parts which shouldn't be public, I'll also publish
entire CMS as well. ;)

Cheers,
Danilo


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Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:17:18PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:54 +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
> I value the importance of the DDTP project, but the translating effort
> has only recently seriously started. Looking at the statistics[1], I see

The first DDTP translation effort started years ago (over 4, actually) and it
was quite serious at the time for some languages. It was stalled due to
gluck's compromise and recently restarted. 

> that the best language has yet only one third of descriptions translated
> in optional and extra, and steeply dropping to only a couple of
> percentpoints for those after that.

This is very much related to the fact that the language teams see no gain for
translating the DDTP right now since end-users would not be able to see them,
as there is no support in apt or its frontends. A change in apt to make those
visible when users run 'apt-cache search|show' even if apt frontends
(aptitude, synaptic) do not use them yet would certainly make translation
teams shift their efforts over to the DDTP.

Just my 2c.

Javier


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Re: Would an ABI change of apt for DDTP support still be accepted?

2006-10-02 Thread Otavio Salvador
Javier Fernández-Sanguino Peña <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 01:17:18PM +0200, Thijs Kinkhorst wrote:
>> On Mon, 2006-10-02 at 11:54 +0200, Jens Seidel wrote:
>> I value the importance of the DDTP project, but the translating effort
>> has only recently seriously started. Looking at the statistics[1], I see
>
> The first DDTP translation effort started years ago (over 4, actually) and it
> was quite serious at the time for some languages. It was stalled due to
> gluck's compromise and recently restarted. 

And my first APT patch was release in 2003[1]. As anyone can notice,
it's not new.

1. http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/04/msg00015.html

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DDTSS, reviewed descriptions and login

2006-10-02 Thread Jens Seidel
Hi Martijn,

I reviewed a package description as usual but this time I logged in via my
account (jensseidel). I noticed that my reviews do not move from
"Pending review" to "Reviewed by you" so that I have to remember which
packages I already reviewed.

I can reselect such a checked package and the script recognizes me as
owner, so it seems to work. Just the display is not optimal ...

Can you please fix it?
It would also nice to have the package account mapping available, so
that we can honour the most active people ...

Jens


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DDTP on packages.debian.org

2006-10-02 Thread Miroslav Kure
On Mon, Oct 02, 2006 at 08:48:39PM +0200, Javier Fernández-Sanguino Pe?a wrote:
> 
> This is very much related to the fact that the language teams see no gain for
> translating the DDTP right now since end-users would not be able to see them,
> as there is no support in apt or its frontends.

BTW, at some point of time the translations were used on
http://packages.debian.org, which is not the case anymore. Does
anybody know what happened and if it can be corrected?

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