Debian installer under control

Thu, 05 Feb 2004 21:10:00 +0000

I just committed the final remaining bits of our Catalan translation for Debian installer. Finally I can be happy when the next beta comes out, as I won’t feel guilty anymore. ;) Thanks to bubulle and vorlon for caring, they really made me get my ass moving and finish my already rotting translation before it was completely useless. I won’t do the documentation myself. I remember doing parts of that for the Woody release notes and I remember it was quite tedious, but hopefully there’ll be plenty of volunteers to do it.

Jeff Bailey asked me yesterday what is the “official” DVD-Ripper for GNOME. I don’t know of any… is there one? If not, I guess it’d be cool to have one, just to piss the MPAA a bit. :) Speaking of that, I read in today’s newspaper that the Oscar Awards Ceremony won’t be totally live on TV, it’ll have a slight delay just in case someone decides to show their penis or breast or butt in the middle. Heh, America is funny.

The Valencian exam went very well: the text was about trains (which I love), and I just had to read a few lines, and then comment a bit about the topic. After two or three minutes, the examiner said it was enough, and told me I’d have news soonish. Woot.

The silly virus appeared to be declining a bit in the last days, but today it hit my mail server very hard again. It’s annoying… that box is a P150 and on normal circumstances it just idles and idles, but now it’s very loaded and hitting swap most of the time, annoying me with the HD noise. If only the stupid windows ~~users~~ developers could get a clue and fix their crap… grrr!

Orkut is getting boring.

World Domination Plan delayed a bit

Fri, 16 Jan 2004 19:11:00 +0000

Today I was prodded publicly on debian-l10n-catalan@lists.debian.org about the lack of Catalan translations for Debian Installer… looks like I had slacked for too long, although I had finally restarted my work on this during the last few days. Finishing it isn’t a big problem -it’s not that big-, what was slowing me down was my lack of experience to merge the big full ca.po into the little modules’ po files. I don’t know why, but I hadn’t learned about msgmerge -C, which will do the trick (although it’s still quite time consuming, at least for the first commits which will need changes to probably all the installer modules). Christian Perrier and Steve Langasek (the very famous Catalan-American ;) have offered help to handle this. I’ll probably accept their kind offer tomorrow, when I finish putting my po more or less in shape. All of this makes me wonder something else, though. What is the status of the SGML installer and release notes docs for Sarge? Has work started on this? If so, I should probably find some minion to handle the Catalan translation if we want to have it ready in time.

In short, the Catalan World Domination Plan has been slightly delayed, but just wait… in 10 months or so you’ll find yourselves saying “Bon dia!” every morning!

I need to find some time to do some GNOME commits I have pending, mostly Catalan corrections from Jordi Mas to a zillion modules in the extra and fifth-toe sections. I promise it’ll be done by the weekend.

I also have to do my usual ration of studying, plus some cycling training, plus I have to be in a party in about 2 hours. This weekend is going to be short…

I tried to upload the new mailutils snapshot today, but found out it requires the new gnutls packages which are stuck in the new/ queue. I downloaded the packages from Ivo’s web, but can’t upload until the packages hit incoming. This started a discussion which made us find out a few packages still use gnutls5. Time to change that… On other fronts, StevenK fixed the remaining issues with alsa-driver 1.0.1, and it’s ready for upload. Probably tomorrow. What we can’t upload yet is alsa-lib, that’s going to get hairy thanks to an API change in 1.0.x…

Now, off to cook some Spanish omelet…

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Debian installer under control

World Domination Plan delayed a bit