Hi,
This mail is sent to all people who contributed to the last version of the Debian Installer "sublevel 1" translations, for the installation software of the Debian distribution (which is also used in the Ubuntu installer).
Debian Installer is constantly evolving and we're still quite far away from the planned freeze of the entire Debian distribution (which should happen in March 2010). Also, even though a release of Debian Installer is about to come soon, we're not planning a fully formalized l10n update process yet.
Still, several translations had no single update since Debian Lenny was released, back in February 2009 (with a release of Debian Installer in January 2009).
So, as Debian Installer l10n corodinator, I'd like to ask you to consider updating Debian Installer translations. The most important file, the "sublevel 1" file, is attached to this mail.
Most of you know well about the D-I l10n process, so you'll know how to get your hands on the l10n material and how to commit it back. If not, http://d-i.debian.org/doc/l10n might be useful for you.
Some of you were "just" people who volunteered to complete their language for the last release of Debian and never mentioned they would commit themselves to further updates. Still, I'd like to ask you if you could consider doing such update again.
Some others were just people who once sent a sometimes partial translation and never, or vera rarely, followed up on it. Even in such case, please consider doing an update...even a minimal one would be appreciated.
This mailo doesn't give you any deadline...as there is none yet. I however needed to send a first "prod" round in order to have a rough idea of what we can expect during the general free when it's time to release.
In any case, thanks for your attention....and good luck for your updates! :-)
Thanks in advance,