Christian Perrier: End of l10n NMU campaign
So, today, I finally stopped the l10n NMU campaign.
It started on Sept. 25th with the "Intent to Work" on hesiod. The last
package I worked on has been isync today.
The goal of that campaign was closing as many longstanding l10n bug reports
as possible. The main goals were decided during the i18n work meeting in
Extremadura, back in September. We focused on po-debconf translations,
mostly, which are an easy target for NMUs. Thomas Huriaux extracted the data
from the BTS and ranked packages with regards to the number of pending l10n
bugs and their age.
Lucas Wall reactivated a coordination page which we already used back in
early 2006 when a first version of such a campaign was run.
During that campaign, I worked on 102 packages. 89 of them got all
their pending l10n bugs closed, 5 of them got most of their l10n bugs closed
(remaining "l10n" bugs were either not really related to localisation and
strange things which I left aside), 8 packages were ignored either because their
respective maintainers wanted to handle the bugs themselves or because they
were tagged for removal.
Meny packages have also been handled by their respective maintainers, either
because the NMU announcements woke them up...or because of their natural
release process. I have to point out that the level of collaboration of
package maintainers has been great (except for those who are MIA, and there
are quite a few) with only one very proeminent exception (just guess which
one).
Thijs Kinkhorst and Tobias Toedter also contributed to the campaign. Thanks
to them as well.
As a side effect, we also made many of these packages as lintian-clean as we
could, trying to balance between too invasive NMUs and trivial fixes. IIRC,
I only introduced 3 or 4 RC bugs doing so (which I fixed immediately of
course). A few RC bugs were also fixed by the NMUs and even a security bug
has been hunted down (for screen).
Meny thanks to all package maintainers, translators and everybody who helped
during that work. It has been a great time. Just look at the
result.
Now heading to the improvement of the next pet project of the i18n task
force: the Debian i18n server.