Some news from the Debian Installer string freeze as of 07/23 03:00UTC

69 hours left until freeze end

Again string changes happened yesterday, but this time they were ack'ed changes : one template added in network-console (I asked Batian to make it translatable immediately because this was a string *addition*) and on rewritten by Joey Hess in partman-lvm because the English was completely wrong and misleading.

Depite this, we now have:

9 complete languages tr, pt_BR, pt, nn, lt, ja, fr, da, ca 22 nearly complete (over 95%) zh_CN, uk, sq, sk, ro, pl, ko, he, fi, eu, el, de, cs, bg, id ru, nl, nb, hu, es, hr, bs 7 partial (over 80%) it, cy, ar, zh_TW, sl, sv, gl 1 very partial (over 50%) fa 2 stucked (We have translators but no progress) vi, sr 3 abandoned (no translator registered) ga, se, lv

I want to highlight the great effort of the Croatian translator who bringed hr from 0% to 95% in less than 2 weeks. This plus a lot of translations in 2nd stage.

Today (which happens to me my last work days before 3 weeks away), I will:

- commit back Arabic translations from Arabeyes CVS, which should bring ar to 99% - report the bug about missing characters in unifont.bdf which make the Farsi translation unusable - test the very recent changes in languagechooser which should make RTL languages (ar, he, fa) right-to-left in 2nd stage

About 2nd and 3rd stages:

-base-config and tasksel are very well translated now -don't forget the iso 3166 list. It is absolutely not moving, so easy to fix -shadow is also quite good. I made a NMU again which was accepted 2 days ago. No more NMU until late August except on RC bug fix -aptitude is very moving target currently. I suggest we leave it stabilize for a few weeks -others such as popularity-contest, dictionaries-common, dpkg, apt and so on are not moving that much

PLEASE TEST d-i in your language, especially non Latin languages. I made less test with recent images, so the status for Japanese, Russian and others is currently a bit unknown.