After being completed in German, Spanish, Swedish, dpkg manpages (including the horrific dpkg-source(1) manpage) are fully translated in French. 1937 paragraphs of geek jargon now using the beautiful langue de Moli re (however, I used the 21st century variant and not 17th century). You can thank my daughter for living in Bordeaux and us for visiting her this week-end, indeed. According to the statistics page, we still have some work to do, and 100% will be a no-go for squeeze but I think that the French l10n team can be proud anyway.

Hello fellow developers, The summer is over but I m happy to announce that this year s Summer of Code at Debian has been better than ever! This is indeed the 4th time we had the privilege of participating in the Google Summer of Code and each year has been a little different. This year, 8 of our 10 students succeeded in our (very strict!) final evaluations, but we have reasons to believe that they will translate into more long-term developers than ever, all thank to you. The highlight this year has been getting almost all of our students at DebConf10. Thanks again this year to generous Travel Grants from the Google Open Source Team, we managed to fly in 7 of our students (up from 3!). You certainly saw them, presenting during DebianDay, hacking on the grass of Columbia, hacking^Wcheering our Debian Project Leader throwing the inaugural pitch of a professional baseball game or hacking^Wsun-tanning on the tr s kitsch Coney Island beach. Before I give the keyboard to our Students, I d like to tell you that it will be the pleasure and honor of Obey Arthur Liu (yours truly, as Administrator) and Bastian Venthur (as Mentor) to represent Debian at the Summer of Code 2010 Mentors Summit on 23-24 October 2010, at the Google Headquarters in Mountain View. Like last year, we expect many other DDs to be present under other hats. We will be having 2 days of unconference on GSoC and free software related topics. We all look forward to reporting from California on Planet and soc-coordination@l.a.d.o! All of our students had a wonderful experience, even if they couldn t come to DebConf, that is best shared in their own voice, so without further ado, our successful projects: Multi-Arch support in APT by David Kalnischkies, mentored by Michael Vogt apt-get install MultiArch does mostly work now as most code is already merged in squeeze, but if not complain about us at deity@l.d.o! Still, a lot left on the todo list not only in APT so let us all add MultiArch again to the Release Goals and work hard on squeezing it into wheezy. Debbugs Bug Reporting and Manipulation API by David Wendt Jr., mentored by Bastian Venthur Hello, I m David Wendt, and I went to Debconf10 to learn more about the development side of Debian. Having used it since the 9th grade, I ve been intimately familiar with many of Debian s internals. However, I wanted to see the developers and other Debian users. At DebConf, I was able to see a variety of talks from Debian and Ubuntu developers. I also got to meet with my mentor as well as the maintainer of Debbugs. Content-aware Config Files Upgrading by Krzysztof Tyszecki, mentored by Dominique Dumont Config::Model is now capable of manipulating files using shorter and easier to write models. Thanks to that, packagers may start experiment with creating upgrade models. Further work is needed to support more complicated config files Dominique Dumont is working on DEP-5 parser, I ll shortly start working on a cupsd config file parser.
The best thing about DebConf10 is that every person I talked with knew what I was doing. I had a mission to get some feedback on my project. Everybody liked the idea of making upgrades less cumbersome. On the other side, it was my first visit to United States, so I decided to go on a daytrip on my own (instead of staying inside the building, despite heat warnings). I had a chance to visit many interesting places like Ground Zero, the UN headquarters, Grand Central Terminal, Times square and Rockefeller Center that was a great experience. Hurd port and de-Linux-ization of Debian-Installer by J r mie Koenig, mentored by Samuel Thibault Debconf10 was great! Among other people working on the installer, I met Aur lien Jarno from the Debian/kFreeBSD team and we worked together on a cross-platform busybox package. Besides, the talks were very interesting and I ve filled my TODO-list for the year.
For instance I learned about the Jigsaw project of OpenJDK, and how Debian would be the ideal platform to experiment with it. More generally, some people think Debian could push Java 7 forward and I d like to see this happen. Smart Upload Server for FTP Master by Petr Jasek, mentored by Joerg Jaspert I must say that it was great time for me in NY, I ve met and talked and coded with people from ftp-master team like Torsten Werner who helped me to push the project a bit further and with some other people who were looking forward to release of the tool which I hope they will use quite soon. Everybody interested, everybody excited, really cool place and time. And I can t forget the Coney Island beach and stuff, lot of fun, lot of sun;) Aptitude Qt by Piotr Galiszewski, mentored by Sune Vuorela Currently, development branches support full features searching, viewing extended package s informations, performing cache and packages operations. Code and GUI still require a lot of work which will be continued. Informations about further progress could be found on aptitude mailing list and repository rss channel. Debian-Installer on Neo FreeRunner and Handheld Devices by Thibaut Girka, mentored by Gaudenz Steinlin For me, DebConf 10 started at the airport, where Sylvestre Ledru (whom I didn t know of before) was wearing a GSoC 2007 t-shirt, that is, given the circumstances, almost equivalent to say I m a hacker, I m going to DebConf 10 .
I ve spent my time at the conference attending various talks, hacking, meeting DDs and other hackers (amongst others, my co-mentor Per Andersson, Paul Wise, Julien Cristau, Christian Perrier, Cyril Brulebois, Martin Michlmayr, Colin Watson and Otavio Salvadores who I have to thank for his patience while dealing with my questions), chatting, cross-signing keys, rushing to finish eating before 7pm, getting sunburnt, sightseeing (thanks, Arthur, for the lightning-fast tour of Manhattan!), and so on. Debian Developers and community, we count on you. See you next year! (cross-posted to debian-devel-announce@l.d.o and soc-coordination@l.a.d.o)

Today, registration for the 2011 Paris Marathon (Apr 10th 2011) and 2011 Paris Half-marathon (March 6th 2011) was opening. I just registered for both. One will note that about 3 hours after the online registration opened, already more than 1200 people registered. As there are "only" 37000 places (plus 3000 for travel agencies and sponsors), people will, as usual, need to hurry (the half-marathon has 28500 places).

It is not as prestigious as Chicago half-marathon, but it turns out that the day Dirk ran one of his slowest halves in years (but, eh, I'm happy for him as ha had a very disappointing running year), I ran my fastest and completed the 600-runners Bois d'Arcy half-marathon, finishing 181th ou the 573 finishers. That one was planned to be one of the peaks in my preparation for the Seine-Eure marathon, my second official marathon run of the year (and my third marathon). 1h37'27", that's 4 minutes better than my best time as of now (this year's Paris half, back in March). So, it seems that now, I can safely target 3h35-3h40 for October 17th (3h30? A bit far, still...). We'll see... Anyway, it seems that my crazy summer (730km ran between June 1st and Sept 10th) is giving results. Not Dirk's "run less, run faster"....but it seems that it's working for me..:-)

(update: yesterday's version was using http://wiki.debian.org/Teams/ReleaseTeam as reference, while http://www.debian.org/intro/organization is the one that's up-to-date. Those watching the current traffic in debian-release can probably realize the huge *thank you* deserved by the entire release team for the work they're doing. So, how about spamming the release team members with (private!) "thank you" messages when they unblock a package of yours? And (even more difficult) also one when they don't unblock your package...but spent time reviewing it and more time to explain you why they prefer not unblocking it... In any case, thank you, Neil Maulkin, Adam adsb, Dann dannf, Felipe faw, Jurij trave11er, Luk luk, Mehdi mehdi, Pierre MadCoder, Julien jcristau (doh, French Cabal!)...and Martin zobel (who's apparently forgotten on the page). Not to forget Adam adsb and Phil phil for managing stable releases....and the Wise Release Wizards (vorlon, aba, luk, HE). Hat off, guys (only guys there, yet another place for d-w to show up).

Those watching the current traffic in debian-release can probably realize the huge *thank you* deserved by the entire release team for the work they're doing. So, how about spamming the release team members with (private!) "thank you" messages when they unblock a package of yours? And (even more difficult) also one when they don't unblock your package...but spent time reviewing it and more time to explain you why they prefer not unblocking it... In any case, thank you, Neil Maulkin, Adam adsb, Dann dannf, Felipe faw, Jurij trave11er, Luk luk, Mehdi mehdi, Pierre MadCoder, Julien jcristau (doh, French Cabal!). Not to forget Adam adsb and Phil phil for managing stable releases....and the Wise Release Wizards (vorlon, aba, HE). Hat off....

If you do care about having good samba packages in squeeze, you can help. If you're in a hurry and don't want to read the blah-blah, just skip to the end of this story and read the last paragraph. Thanks to the confidence of the release team, we (samba packagers) have been "authorized" to upload samba 3.5.4 in unstable, thus targeting having that version in squeeze. Up to July, we were indeed targeting 3.4.8 for squeeze, on the assumption that, as usual, samba upstream releases need some maturation before being strong guarantee that no regression happens. In July we were ready to move and finally upload in unstable the 3.5 packages we kept in experimental until then. The final decision was to be taken during DebConf10. It was roughly taken with Steve Langasek, but....I couldn't upload immediately (most people know that working on major packages during DebConf is a dream)...and had holidays afteer. In the meantime, the freeze happened so we got theoretically screwed... Still, I could manage to convince the release team that long term support for samba 3.5 will certainly be better than 3.4...and that functionality in that version (particularly several Win7-related fixes and a much improved code for printing support) and we got a notice "please upload to unstable and come back to us in a few weeks". That happened, finally. So, now, we need YOU, samba users and admins, to test these packages. Merging our packaging branches was hard (thanks, Steve Langasek, for your help) and glitches are always possible. So, please TEST these packages by installing samba, winbind, libsmbclient and friends from unstable....and report bugs, preferrably the release critical ones....

The most important moment in a Debian release cycle just happened As an important step of the freeze is choosing the name of the next release (so that ftpmasters and many other parts of the project can prepare the infrastructure), the Debian release team did its duty. Wheezy it is, then. First Debian release named after a character that is *not* in Toy Story 1. Indeed, there was one toy character left that fills in two criteria followed up to now by those who named Debian releases:

• appearing in TS1
• having its name mentioned in the movie itself (Squeeze is already half an exception as they appear in TS1 but their name is mentioned in later movies)

...and that's "Rocky" (Wikipedia names him "Rocky Gibraltar"). That wrestler figure is called for help ("Rocky, the ramp!") to rescue Woody and Buzz at the back of the moving truck, at the end of the film. Guys, you know what to do in 2 years..:-)

Look at the status of debconf translations for top languages in the current ranking. Swedish, Russian, French, German, Portuguese, Czech can make it (have you noticed that French is not leading?). For lenny, French and German succeeeded in this. You have no idea about the tremendous and constant effort it requires for the teams...(and a little bit for me) to reach this. So, if you're the maintainer of wireshark gnumeric tripwire request-tracker3.8 bugzilla tomcat6halevt ifetch-tools isc-dhcp foomatic-filters mailgraph gitosis fts qmail, think about it. You can make 1 to 6 people happy..:-)

...awesome. OK, I'm writing this while I'm still in USA, but there are so many things to say about these weeks that I can't write them in only one blog post. And, still, this one will be quite long as it will talk about hacking, running and sightseeing...:) Let's start about hacking: after all, this is the first reason for being there in US, isn't it? I cam to DebConf with a very long TODO list and, for the first time in seven DebConfs, I'm pretty happy with what I achieved from it:

• samba packages
  • I (shortly) discussed with Steve Langasek about samba packages. He will have to talk with upstream about 3.6 that unexpectedly drops symbols in libraries , so that we can upload it in experimental (and probably also offer a lenny backport)
  • We didn't decide yet about the version to have in squeeze. I know, the freeze happened in the meantime, so we should stick with 3.4.8 but I'm more and more convinced that we should have 3.5.4 instead as upstream should stop supporting 3.4 security-wise around June 2011. I think I can convince the Release Team that 3.4-3.5 upgrade is not to be disruptive with the freeze.
  • I hopefully fixed the 3.5.4 packages for lenny which we have in our unofficial repository at http://pkg-samba.alioth.debian.org. I didn't take time to check this properly, though, so feedback will be appreciated.
• Pootle/translate-toolkit/virtaal
  • These are usually maintained by Nicolas Fran ois but he has no time for them. So, I agreed with him that I would release new upstream versions
  • pootle 2.0.5 is now in unstable. I have to work on an RC bug, still
  • translate-toolkit 1.7.0 is now in unstable too
  • virtaal: I began working on new upstream release packaging
  • backporting: I planned to backport translate-toolkit and pootle as there is a strong demand for them for lenny servers but the above mentioned RC bug prevented me to do so
• D-I work
  • I partly reviewed and corrected the D-I l10n documentation
  • I reviewed and activated new debconf templates added by Otavio Salvador and Daniel Baumann to live-installer, then called for their translation
  • Support for locales with "@" in their name in localechooser: I looked at this but I need someone more clever than me in shell scripting to fix that. Until that's done, I deactivated Serbian (Latin), unfortunately.
• Various packaging work
  • New release for console-data (mostly l10n stuff aimed for D-I)
  • Uploaded ttf-dzongkha and ttf-inconsolata to s-p-u to fix two RC bugs in stable
  • Polish tasksel and have Otavio to upload it
  • Checked my own packages against Rhonda's list of RC bugs in stable
• Localization work
  • Pootle upstream French translation completed, for 2.1.0
  • Cleaned out the tracking robot for French l10n in Debian

As one can see, a lot of planned work happened while I still could maintain the usual flow of recurrent work with localization (Smith reviews, l10n NMUs). Some asked me why I didn't propose l10n sessions this year. Indeed, I wasn't feeling I could sustain animating them and I had no clear idea about which topic I could bring to be discussed. Last year, these sessions slightly killed my free time and I wanted to keep some this year for "impromptu" things. I didn't attend many talks, sorry for the speakers. The most I attended were during Debian Day, which I found highlyinteresting and motivating, just like Eben Moglen's talk. Marga's talk was also one I wanted to attend, though I regreted that things went mostly out of control during the talk (too many comments from the audience to allow Marga pushing her important points). As usual, I invested a big part of my time in "social" activities, the most proeminent being of course the Cheese and Wine party, which turned ut to be a great success. The help of my son Jean-Baptiste and the tremendous support of Michelle Lynn Hall helped a lot, though I still regret that we screwed about accessibility. I also ran a lot..:-)..that may be counted as social activities as I organized several group runs. The one I'm proud of has been participating to a local race, namely the Van Cortland Track Club Summer Series of cross-country running, in Bronx. We went there with no less than 10 DebConf participants and 1 kilt (hey, Luca!). All of us completed the race (that had 170 runners for 5 kilometers) and No l K the even finished 17th scratch and 2nd in his age/gender category. Besides that, we had a great run/sightseeing to Georges Washington Bridge (that links New Jersey and Harlem and offers an unusual view of Manhattan "from behind"). All this with a 17km run. We also ran several times in Central Park, and No l and me happened to go to Coney Island for the Day Trip by doing half of the trip by running (all around Manhattan and over the Broolyn Bridge), for about 20km. Then we "showered" in the Atlantic Ocean....:). At the end of DebConf, I think that I had my record broken with 112km run in 10 days and only one day *without* running. What about sightseeing? Well, this blog post is too long and we reach the end of Interstate-90, close to Albany, so that will be for an upcoming blog post. Aug 25th update: back home, so now I can publish this blog post...

Back in 2009, I did some analysis of the number of developers per country. Apparently, some people at DebConf remember this and asked if I could update this data. So, here we are with the 2010 version, sorted by the ratio of *active* developers per million population for each country.

Act: number of active developers
Dev: total number of developers
A/M: number of active devels per million pop.
D/M: number of devels per million pop.
2009: rank in 2009
2010: rank in 2010
Code	Name		Population	Act	Dev	A/M	D/M	2009	2010
fi	Finland		5359538		21	32	3,92	5,97	1	1
ch	Switzerland	7782900		22	26	2,83	3,34	2	2
nz	New Zealand	4386207		11	15	2,51	3,42	4	3
no	Norway		4895500		11	14	2,25	2,86	5	4
lu	Luxemburg	502202		1	1	1,99	1,99	8	5
se	Sweden		9354462		18	34	1,92	3,63	3	6
de	Germany		81757600	148	212	1,81	2,59	7	7
at	Austria		8356707		14	23	1,68	2,75	6	8
ie	Ireland		6197100		9	12	1,45	1,94	13	9
au	Australia	22413132	32	56	1,43	2,5	9	10
be	Belgium		10827519	14	16	1,29	1,48	10	11
fr	France		65447374	84	112	1,28	1,71	12	12
nl	Netherlands	16607943	20	38	1,2	2,29	11	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62041708	64	102	1,03	1,64	14	14
ca	Canada		34199000	27	56	0,79	1,64	15	15
es	Spain		46030109	34	52	0,74	1,13	16	16
dk	Denmark		5540241		4	8	0,72	1,44	17	17
hr	Croatia		4489409		3	3	0,67	0,67	20	18
lt	Lithuania	3341966		2	2	0,6	0,6	28	19
cz	Czech Rep	10506813	6	6	0,57	0,57	21	20
us	USA		309913000	165	360	0,53	1,16	19	21
it	Italy		60231214	32	46	0,53	0,76	23	22
bg	Bulgaria	7563710		4	4	0,53	0,53	25	23
il	Israel		7602400		4	6	0,53	0,79	24	24
hu	Hungary		10005000	5	11	0,5	1,1	18	25
lv	Latvia		2217969		1	2	0,45	0,9	26	26
uy	Uruguay		3494382		1	2	0,29	0,57	22	27
jp	Japan		127420000	32	45	0,25	0,35	30	28
pl	Poland		38192000	9	13	0,24	0,34	29	29
cr	Costa Rica	4253897		1	1	0,24	0,24	31	30
sk	Slovakia	5379455		1	1	0,19	0,19	32	31
pt	Portugal	11317192	2	4	0,18	0,35	27	32
ar	Argentina	40134425	6	8	0,15	0,2	34	33
tw	Taiwan		23119772	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34
br	Brazil		192272890	20	21	0,1	0,11	36	35
by	Belarus		9648533		1	1	0,1	0,1	35	36
mg	Madagascar	20653556	2	2	0,1	0,1	44	37
gr	Greece		11306183	1	3	0,09	0,27	33	38
kr	South Korea	48758000	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39
ec	Ecuador		14790608	1	1	0,07	0,07		40
cl	Chile		17063000	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41
ru	Russia		141927297	7	8	0,05	0,06	43	42
ro	Romania		22215421	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43
co	Colombia	45393050	2	3	0,04	0,07	41	44
ve	Venezuela	26814843	1	1	0,04	0,04	40	45
pe	Peru		29461933	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46
tr	Turkey		72561312	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47
za	South Africa	49991300	1	8	0,02	0,16	38	48
mx	Mexico		111211789	2	2	0,02	0,02	49	49
th	Thailand	66404688	1	2	0,02	0,03	50	50
eg	Egypt		78737000	1	2	0,01	0,03	51	51
in	India		1184344000	7	7	0,01	0,01	52	52
cn	China		1338612968	6	10	0	0,01	53	53
ua	Ukraine		45888000	0	0	0	0	48	54
								
								
					873	1410	61,91%			

A few interesting facts:

• We now have 62% of active DDs while we had 73% last year. This year's campaign of MIA work has been somehow "successful", apparently
• No earthquake happened in Finland and there hasn't been a huge increase in DD birth in Switzerland, so the first two stay the same. And Luxembourg didn't have a second DD to beat this.
• Sweden lost many active DDs and is no longer close to Switzerland.
• New Zealand made its way in the top 3. I want them to make a special haka for this
• Ireland won 4 places and is now in the top 10. Thanks for their 3 new active DDs
• And France still hasn't kicked Belgium's ass. Maybe will we win when the country splits out?

After Arjuna Rao Chavala successfully completed enough of D-I translation, I just activated support for the Telugu language in Debian Installer. Given the currently planned released, that will be available in the next release, so hopefully for Squeeze. Telugu is spoken in Andhra Pradesh, one of the largest states in India, on the south-eastern coast of the country. The main city of Andrha Pradesh is Hyderabad, the 6th largest city of India. Telugu is the third most-spoken language in India, with about 74 million native speakers. As of now, out of the 29 languages in India with over 1 million speakers, we do support 9 of them that represent over 70% of the population of India. We indeed now support the five most spoken languages in India (of course, all this by excluding English).

The 7th C&W party (6 at DebConfs plus one in an Extremadura meeting) just happened. Thank you to all ladies and gentlemen who attended. You've been awesome as usual, and this event, which is your event....has been even better than the former one, etc. Just because you guys were there. Thumbs up.

Yesterday late evening, Jean-Baptiste and I arrived in NYC after about a 16 hours trip. Amazingly, he mentioned to me that we entered a train in the station close to our home....and then never went outside until we exited the 1 line subway at 116th street on Broadway Ave.:

• Transilien line U from la Verri re to La D fense
• RER line A to Ch telet-les Halles
• RER line B to Roissy CDG terminal 1 train station
• CDGVal to Terminal 1
• Aer Lingus A321 to Dublin airport
• Aer Lingus A330-300 to JFK
• JFK Air Train to Howard Station (admittedly the platform here is technically partly outside)
• MTA subway line A from Howard Station to 59th St.-Columbus Circle
• MTA subway line 1 to 116th St.-Columbia university

It's indeed quite typical to notice that, these days, you can travel 1/4 of the planet, using 9 different trnsportation systems and never go outside. We made a quick appearance in the Hacklab yesterday, enough to say "hi" to a dozen of people around and mostlysee how things are organized. Then bed, which is probably the best way to avoid jetlag. This morning, I of course woke up quite early (Debian grandfathers, blah blah) and of course I went out running..:-) The initial plan was to do a short enough run in Central Park. However, I managed to get partly lost and, indeed, after entering the Park in the NW corner, I managed to read Columbus circle...in the SW corner after wandering around the large alleys. So, my only choice was then to come back through the westernmost part of the Park back to Columbia..and thus ended up with a 13km run (for running junkies, the pace was 5'31"/km (8'52"/mile for local runners). And now, I'm in the hacklab with JB (did I already say that I'm proud of this? Yes, dozens of times...OK...). And they're waiting for me to go to lunch....so, end of this blog post..:)

Joe Hansen reported the Debian bug #590000 on Thursday July 22nd, against the uif package. Guess what? That was a localization bug..:-)... Joe is doing a lot of work for Danish localization in Debian since a few months and I'm happy to see him rewarded byt this little "success". Bug #580000 was reported as of May 2nd. It is now confirmed that the rate for 10,000 bugs is more 2.5 months than 2 months as it was in the past. So, now my next post about this topic will be about Bug #600000 for which a bet was placed two years ago. I already lost the bet as I predicted it to happen on June 30th. Either Ren Mayorga or Josu Abarca are likely to win this bet, more likely Ren , I would say. One should note that all people who did bet where optimistic about the moment where bug #600000 would be reported.

This week-end, I didn't work a lot on Debian stuff (mostly running and gardeing...) but still managed to finally take care of my pet package, the one I maintain since 2001, namely geneweb. The package suffered from a very longstanding RC bug that made it unusable on amd64 machines. I had to call for help Ocaml gurus and R mi Vanicat kindly provided a working patch. So, now, geneweb can be released and I won't have to ask for my pet package to be removed from testing. I even switched it to dh7 and "minimal" debian/rules file (something I planned to do at DC10 but finally turned out to be easy to do. That will be my last week-end of activity in Debian until DebConf10 as I'll be away for the upcoming week-end. So, for those of you who attend DC10, see you in NYC. I'll arrive on Wed 28th evening for part of Debcamp and I'll have the great pleasure to introduce my son Jean-Baptiste to the Debian world.

After a quite long string freeze and last minute efforts by translators, I finally stopped the clock on Sunday July 11th for D-I localization update meant for the release of the beta1 version of debian-installer for squeeze. We finally have 65 supported languages. In a final effort, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Tagalog, Kurdish, Croatian and Macedonian were "rescued" and completed enough for being included in the release. Unfortunately, I had to deactivate Wolof, Serbian and Welsh because of lack of activity. For Serbian, this is very infortunate as new translators indeed tried to contact me with updates, which I missed and discovered only after it wasn't possible to revert the change. Good news are that Serbian is now already reactivated for the next release and we will even have both the Cyrillic and Latin versions of it. The mass upload of D-I packages happened mostly on Sunday 12th (you probably noticed that if you follow debian-devel-changes). It is already possible to test what will be D-I beta1: just go to the D-I development web page, then choose to download the daily built netboot image. Boot it with "install mirror/suite=unstable". This is not *exactly* what beta1 will give as this will install unstable and not testing, for non D-I packages...but I think that, until D-I packages migrate to testing, this is the best way to test beta1. The next step in D-I release preparation should be the mass migration to testing of most udeb packages.

Today, I officially launched the discussion to prepare Debconf attendees mind that we will have the 6th Cheese and Wine party at DebConf 10 in New York City. It has to be awesome. It will be.

If you do, then please read the current status of D-I localization, 3 days before the official end of the string freeze. You should do it particularly if you care about Belarusian, Ukrainian, Hungarian, Tagalog, Kurdish, Croatian, Macedonian, Wolof, Serbian, Welsh. (Brazilian Portuguese was also mentioned in that post but updates happened today and I'm confident that Felipe will soon catchup. Croatian is also likely to be OK as Josip is often updating at the last minute...).

I hope that some of you, outside the French Cabal, are able to understand French. I would be sorry if you missed the whole fun of this. The story starts at http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2010/05/msg00178.html. In short, someone apparently named "Alain S<shhhhdonttellmyname>" mailed the debian-l10n-french mailing list to request for a message written in march 2006 by someone else whose name is also S<shhhhdonttellmyname> to be removed from the debian-*user*-french mailing list archives. "Someone" then politely answered him with http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2010/05/msg00179.html, trying to use as less irony as possible. At least, this "someone" refrained himself to explain that, doing so, yet another copy of Mr S<shhhhdonttellmyname> name was being replicated over dozens of servers all over the world, also exposing that he's probably living in Antony, Bourg La Reine, Chatenay Malabry, Chevilly Larue, Fontenay Aux Roses, Fresnes, L'Ha Les Roses, Le Plessis-Robinson or Sceaux, in France. Later on, this "someone" received many private mails from that Mr S<shhhhdonttellmyname>, which got automatically and gradually classified as spam. Funnily, a few days later, that "someone" received another mail from another person, posting from the very same IP address and requesting for such removal again. That "someone" being Very Evil and a little bit pissed off answered with http://lists.debian.org/debian-l10n-french/2010/06/msg00136.html which is untranslatable. So, this is why I hope you can read French. Have fun.