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Samba 4 is out.

That's just it. 21 years (same age than the Linux kernel, 2 years older than Debian) after a crazy australian student started it, Samba 4 is out. Doh.

I happen to be a great fan of ocean races, so like many, particularly here in France, I'm following the Vendée Globe ocean race, alone around the world on 60-feet IMOCA race ships, without stop or assistance.

In its early editions, Vendée Globe was easy to explain : start from Les Sables d'Olonne and come back there after going around Antarctica by leaving it to starboard. Period.

Now, it's a bit more complicated as, for security reasons, the sailors have to pass a few points meant to prevent them from going too south (during first editions, some sailors went as south as 65°S).

Sailors are currently heading "down" the Atlantic and will probably pass in the vicinity of the Tristan da Cunha island.

This island has always been fascinating to me. It is the remotest point inf the world with a permanent population. The closest inhabited land is over 2800km away. 271 people live there. No airport. No regular ship line. Only fishing boats from time to time and that's all. It's probably hard to imagine what is the life there....but I find this fascinating, in some way. Maybe one of these parts of the world where I would like to go and never will. And there's even a volcano (indeed, the island *is* a volcano) :

I wonder if there is a Linux user over there...

That was not my target in today's marathon (my second one in the year). The target was breaking my 3h38'45" record, set on June 10th in Caen.

And, well, I did it. By more than 5 minutes \o/. Of course, the Seine-Eure marathon is the perfect place for this:

• really flat race with no up climbs above 5 meters and an overall up climbing of about 30 meters
• high level marathon. Even though it only has 600 runners, it is the fastest in France, when considering the "median" time (the time of the runner arrivng exactly half of all runners) of about 3h35.
• it is located in Normandy so the likeliness of heat in October is just science-fiction..:-)

My target was running 5'06"/km, so 3h35'11" (but the target was running this as long as possible and see what happens after km 35). I did this nearly perfectly in the first half, reaching the half-marathon in 1h47'30". Double this and you get 3h35'..:-)

"However", I slightly accelerated in the second half, first without noticing, then because....I just could do it..:-). So I managed to run the second half at an average 5'/km, with even the last 2 kilometers around 4'50" and an amazing sprint at the end. Usain bubulle.

The outcome is 3h33'35". Doh. Never thought I could do this. It seems that my unusual preparation (remember the "let's run a marathon when coming back from work, at night", in September? or the 5 half-marathons in a row....culminating in a 3/4 marathon in the 6th week-end?)...was not so bad.

I'm now very close to qualifying times for Boston, my dream marathon (much more than NYC) as they are 3h30' for my age category. Well, another option is to wait turning 55, where the qualifying time is then 3h40..:-)...but it woudl be quite good to complete one under 3h30. Now, it doesn't look like a dream.

We'll see at the end of next year as I will only run one marathon, in autumn, more focusing Spring on ultra running (and, technically, a marathon, but that will be the Mont-Blanc marathon, just before Debconf13....and these 42.195km are quite different from those in Normandy!

It's quite some time since I didn't report about Debian Installer localization. Indeed, thanks to the tireless activity of Cyril Brulebois, we focused on releasing D-I and I indeed stopped harassing translators for updates around July 2012.

Why July? Well, you probably know we have "something" to release as soon as we can and most, if not all, Debian energies should be focused on this!

Or, more precisely speaking, I only focused on getting the newly introduced material translated: we had several changes recently in D-I, mostly focused on important features, such as IPv6 support (thanks to Phil Kern who worked on this), better wireless networking support (thanks to Sorina Sandu) and EFI boot support (thanks to Steve McIntyre).

And, of course, when people change code in D-I, they want to add questions to users, display error and informative messages, etc, etc. And these need translations..:-)

Most translators coped with all this (sometimes with /me hitting them hard on the head to get updates) and D-I beta2 was released with 37 complete translations out of 73 supported languages.

Yesterday, I just resumed the activity of trying to get more updates not only for those recent changes, but also for other older changes...or for languages that never got completed in the past.

As a result, we bumped from 37 compelte languages up to 45 this morning: look for level 1 here (level 2 has been hit by a change in iso-codes, but that change doesn't really affect D-I).

If you language is not 100% in the leftmost column on the stats page, you can probably help. Just get in touch with me and we'll check if somebody is already working on this or not.

(doh, I nearly had it. I just got #690019, #690020 and #690022 for l10n stuff)

Bartek Krawczyk reported Debian bug #690000 on Monday October 8th, against guake. And my friend Sylvestre Ledru, the package maintainer, now has to fix it instead of trying to promote the use of Scilab over proprietary alternatives in the French aerospace research organizations..:-)

Bug #680000 was reported as of July 2nd: 3 months and 8 days for 10,000 bugs. This is a VERY significant drop in the bug reporting rate in Debian.

Last time, I wrote: "How will the wheezy freeze affect this? We'll see in two months!". We have the answer: the wheezy freeze triggerred an important drop in bug reporting rate in Debian. My general feeling is somehow different: for whatever reason, I feel like the *overall* activity in the project has dropped significantly. I seem to have less mails to read, less bugs reported against my packages, even less heated discussions here and there, as well as several very quiet channels on IRC.

Am I pessimistic when feeling that the overall momentum is sliding out of Debian? Maybe I am, so, folks, please make me optimistic and move you fingers out of the place where they are and help releasing that damn penguin.

Apart from that, our next milestone (apart from the wheezy release!) will be bug #700000. Remember the bet?. It looks like the probability of Kartik Mistry winning it is now away (he bet for Now 8th 2012) and the best position is hel by David Prévot (he bet for December 12th). On the other hand, my own chances are increasing if the bug rate drop is confirmed and if bug #700000 is reported in more than 3 months (I bet for February 14th 2013, guess why?). We'll see that in a few weeks!

It's been some time since I didn't write in this blog about my running activities. So let's make an update for my international friends. If you don't care about running, you can move to the next post in your feed reader..:-)

After a quite busy running activity during DebConf 12 in Nicaragua, as well as during the touristic trip we did afterwards, I went back to my "regular" schedule.

Main objectives in September-December are roughly the following:

• Seine-Eure marathon, the flattest marathon in France, on October 21st. This marathon is the one where I set the record which I just broke in June, in Caen. So, the goal is easy to find : break it again. My target time is around 3h37. Not so ambitious in apparence, with a current record at 3h38'45". However, I can't afford the highly meticulous preparation I did in April-May-June, so I try to stay with an achievable target.
• The Le Raid Le Puy-Firminy 70km night run on November 24th. Here, I'll just try to go faster than 9h15 which I achieved last year, trying to have a better race management and avoid cramps. Of course, meteorological conditions will be the key, here, as it can be as low as -15°C in that part of France, in November..:-)

During August, I broke my monthly distance record by running nearly 300km in one month, even achieving 100km in only 5 days, around 24th. That was one of my goals: improve my overall resistance to run repetitions, which is one of the keys for ultra-running. These were achieved with many runs to/back work, with up to 13km in the morning and the same in the evening. Yes, running 26km at about 11km/h (and with some ups and downs in the woods to make it even worse) on a day where one has a normal work activity is quite a challenge.

September has been more focused on marathon preparation. This time, no complicated plan with interval running as the month was also a very busy work month, where fitting training sessions during the day would be hard. So, I made an easy plan : run a half-marathon every Sunday and run part of my work-home commute every day (So, 3km run to the train station, 30mn train ride, then 4km run to my work place, then shower....and the same back after work).

Out of the 5 half-marathons I ran during these 5 Sundays, two of them were official ones. On the first one, I finally managed to break my personal best on half, with 1h37'14". Only a 14 seconds improvement, but that one is certainly one of my best among personal bests....even better than 3h38'45" on marathon..

All other half-marathons were run at marathon speed, so targeting 5'06"/km, which will be my planned pace on October 21st. The one I ran on Sept. 16th, which was the other official race I ran was finally done quite significantly faster than this. First of all, because I had hard times to run "only" at 5'06"/km because of other runners emulation. And also, because I ran the last 3 kilometers up to nearly 14km/h (so, down to 4'15"/km), just for fun, because I could do it..:-)

With all this preparation, I think that I now manage to very well manage my marathon speed. I'll probably do a final test tomorrow by trying to keep running at this speed for 3 rounds of my favourite "Maurepas Marathon" circuit, which is just exactly 1/4 of a marathon.

More "funnily", I also did something I never did before during this really crazy month : simply said, I came back from work by running. All the way long. Through woods, forests, along some lakes and finally in the country. 42 kilometers (yes, a marathon). After a work day. Starting at 5:45pm and arriving home after 4h50 minutes. With 2 hours of heavy rain. With 2.5 hours running in the dark (with my headlamp of course). All alone. That was a crazy bet to do....but really great fun achieving this : the GPS trace is here. Really something I have to do again..:-)

So, well, now I'm more or less prepared and having fun is just a matter for time..:-). I'll keep you guys posted with those and, guess what? I'm already picking my target races for next year..:-)

I recently blogged about 3 languages reaching 100% translation for debconf templates in wheezy.

Today, two more languages joined the club: French and Portuguese.

We're still on our way to get seven or even eight complete translations in wheezy. Czech is now only missing "linux-latest" and Spanish waits for sysvinit (which I just NMU'ed) and nova (unfortunately an error in former translation was unnoticed and I discovered it quite late).

David Prévot is still trying to get Danish complete, by doing many fast update rounds and NMUs. I hope he succeeds in this.

After several months of effort by the i18n team (and quite a bit from /me), some NMUs, a lot of help by the release team to accept many unblocks, we finally reached 100% translation for debconf screens, in wheezy, for three languages.

And, no, French is not among them (yet). The first to reach this heaven are Russian, German and Swedish with translations for all translatable debconf screens for packages in Debian testing (which will become the next Debian release).

Three more languages (French, Czech and Portuguese) are waiting for one package to reach testing and another (Spanish) is waiting for three packages.

We should then soon reach 7 complete languages. David Prévot is even trying to get Danish as complete as possible, but it requires pushing for about 15 packages, with many NMUs and unblocks to ask.

I started this work in early April, so it took about SIX months to reach this and be ableto happily make a lot of noise about such achievement. You have no idea how it is appreciated by translators....so you maybe have a better idea why I can be so noisy when some uncoordinated upload (for instance with modified localized material) breaks this...

We'll have much more news about achievements in l10n for wheezy in the upcoming weeks. We had a lot of things that deserve some trumpets, bells or whistles..:-)

Justin B. Rye, the by far most efficient and clever reviewer of the "Debian English Localization Team" (working in the debian-l10n-english mailing list) just created a great page : Why The Name.

This page tries to give a clue about some cryptic packages and software names and is a great moment to read, both because you'll definitely learn something...and also benefit from tJustin's so british humor.

Justin, when do you apply as non-uploading DD?

So, it's now over.

After two weeks of DebCamp+DebConf, followed by two weeks touring over to the best places in Nicaragua with my beloved Elisabeth (our first long holidays as a couple without children since....1987!), my best holidays EVER are over.

I visited a wonderful country. I met wonderful people. And I have to come back as I left un unachieved volcano climb (some could think I did that on purpose just to have an excuse for coming back)...:-)

I'll probably try to blog about all this in a soon-to-come very long bubullish post (IOW: full of typos and Frenglish) for those of you who aren't tired of these.

Now, doh, I have two gardens to clean out before resuming work in less than two weeks.

What is good in "my" job in Debian are opportunities to discover new interesting packages.

While surveying the completion of debconf translations in unstable, I thus noticed a new package named "hoteldruid", that has a few questions and interaction with users.

After my usual mumble because French and a few other languages were *finally* virtually 100% in unstable for a few days...... I went on my usual task in such cases: propose a review of debconf templates and package description to my fellow debian-l10n-english co-workers (/me bends to Justin B. Rye, our tireless, picky, efficient and very clever Master Reviewer for over 5 years now).

Then I discovered what HotelDruid is about: this is a piece of PHP-based software meant to manage....an hotel or bed and breakfast...or any kind of such facility.

Real end-user software. Really useful software. For real people...:-)

Not the gazillionth obscure development language, or yet another encryption library, or yet another mysterious virtualization thing used by 10 people in the world (even if they host thousands of machines).

These are the free software pieces I like the most. Probably Marco Maria Francesco De Santis (the upstream author and Debian package maintainer) somewhere in, I guess, Italy is running a small B&B (or maybe his parents, or his wife/cousin/whatever) *and* is a free software addict. And he wanted to run his business with free software. Same for this French genealogist who once wanted to display his data over the web (and make a real use of that obscure Ocaml language.....yes, pun itended to my friends, here). Of the person who wrote LedgerSMB to manage his business. Or those who use free software to manage hospitals (hi Andreas) or schools (hi DebianEdu folks...and special hi to Petter).

Real software for real people. Of course, developed with obscure geeky things used only by those weird geeks who like to sometimes travel half a planet to just gather together and develop the best free operating system ever.

Guess what? I like this!

And guess what? I proposed the HotelDruid author to check whether we could imrove....translation, of course..:-)

Not much progress ATM (most translations are complete and D-I has been frozen to prepare its release anyway).

• Arabic completes level 3
• Progress for Uyghur in level 2

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 55 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 language 98%: ga
• 2 languages 97%: hu lt
• 4 languages 95%: dz hr is mk
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 39 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs cy da de eo es eu fa fr gl gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nb nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv th tr uk zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 99%: fi hr vi
• 4 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro ug
• 1 languages 97%: ta
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 42 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bs ca cs cy da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 4 languages 98%: hu pt_BR ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 32 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

Not sure if that will work as I expect, but here as my runs in the city of Managua, combined in one single map, thanks to OpenRunner:

Here's what I found out during the "Packaging with git" talk at Debconf12. There are certainly cool enhancements. Feel free to share on Planet.

bubulle@sesostris:~ $ cat .bashrc
# http://lukasrieder.com/2009/07/14/extend-your-bash-ps1.html
parse_git_branch() {
  git branch 2> /dev/null | sed -e '/^[^*]/d' -e 's/* \(.*\)/(\1)/'
}

# set a fancy prompt (non-color, unless we know we "want" color)
case "$TERM" in
xterm-color|xterm|screen)
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\[\033[01;32m\]\u@\h\[\033[00m\]:\[\033[01;34m\]\w\[\033[00m\]\[\033[01;33m\]$(parse_git_branch)\[\033[00m\] \$ '
    ;;
*)
    PS1='${debian_chroot:+($debian_chroot)}\u@\h:\w$(parse_git_branch)\$ '
    ;;
esac

After attending several talks and BOFs at Debconf12, I'll grant my personal "Best Talk Award" to Hideki Yamane's Let's shrink Debian package archive!.

Despite it being his first ever Debconf talk/BOF, Yamane-san did an incredibly complete research work to bring arguments about ways to reduce the size of the archive by using xz compression.

He triggerred a very live discussion (and for this we can also thank all participants) and the quality of his slides was really high.

So, ありがとうございます for this, as Tom Marble said after the talk. You definitely deserve it and I'm proud to have you as teammate in the pkg-fonts team.

As already written, even though it seems, I didn't spend my time running at Debconf12.

Or eating cheese...

Or (tentatively) hiking volcanoes...

Or helping people to kill each other with socks...

Or drinking beers...

Not *only* all of these (some of them at the same time, though hiking a volcano while eating cheese and drinking beers is not particularly easy)....but also some Debian work.

So, I uploaded a backport of samba to squeeze backports and our squeeze users should now have the same samba version than wheezy ones.

I also stopped several cronjobs on i18n.debian.net and moved some material there as links have been (or should be) moved to the brand new i18n.debian.org (and its alias l10n.debian.org).

I did a major cleanup in tasksel, committed several fixes, proposed others for review (mostly to Joey Hess). All this in preparation for a soon-to-come upload, probably after D-I beta1 which has been prepared by Cyril Brulebois while he was.....not attending Debconf12..

I also followed the integration of Sorina Sandu's work on netcfg for link detection and network ESSID choice in Debian Installer. Sorina is doing well in her GSOC work, because she's clearly someone with great capabilities who we will, I hope, be able to keep contributing to Debian. We can also thank the mentoring work of Gaudenz Steinlin to guide Sorina through D-I's arcanes.

I also went through the current status of debconf translation completeness in testing for the 7 languages that target 100% (Czech, German, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, Swedish). Here, the point is mostly taking care that fixes are either:

• already fixed in unstable (therefore checking that unblock requests have been sent by maintainers)
• sent as a bug report (so that I can harrass package maintainers to fix it)
• under work by a localization team (so that I can pester them to move on)

I can we have good chances to achieve this goal for at least 6 of these 7 languages (Czech might be more tricky as several translations are not yet made).

Finally, I also did most of my regular Debian work (which usually takes 1-2 hours every day)...and bits of my paid work (sorry for those people who I shared the table at breakfast, but that was my only common time window with my team at work).

So, well, quite productive weeks, once again.

This morning, I ran again with Noèl, my longstanding Debian running friend.

The goal was, this time, to explore the South-East heights of Managua. I noticed a road that seemed to be quiet enough and not requiring a too long transit through busy, noisy and bad smelling highways.

So, at 06:00 we headed from the Seminole hotel to the road to Masaya (the very large highway that goes in front ofMetrocentro). We had to run along it for a bit less than 2km. Not the best thing but the road was not very busy at that time.

Then, we turned right into a road heading towards a quite "classy" neighbourhood where roads are well paved, there are sidewalks, etc, etc. It was going up ALL TIME LONG, which is interesting as a start. This placed is named "Lomas de Santo Domingo" in Google Maps.

We even found there the embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran. I can tell you, the Iran ambassador is quite living in a neat place and probably very happy to be there..:-)

Fromthere, a very good concrete road starts to go up and up and up and up. many many very high standard villas, with fences, guards, etc. Strangely, there were several "For Sale" signs instead of "Se Vende". So, I guess this is a sign that this place is mostly inhabited by (very rich) foreigners, diplomats, etc.

This very nice road was also....climbing a lot: 180m in 3.5km, so 5.1% average, but sometimes closer to 10%!

At the very end of the road, we however ended....on a fence. It's apparently guarding the final part of the road where even more fancier villas seem to be, according to the satellite view..:-).

We tried to use a small path up, but had to stop quite quickly.

(OK, Noèl is definitely blurry there....blame the tired eyes after 8.7km climbing all the way)

And then, all we had to do was....going down..:-). Being both in a fairly good shape, that went quite fast. But we both agreed that the final part, above 12km/h along the highway, with the sun hitting hard, was quite a challenge.

I really admire those people who happen to run long distance in places like Managua. I can't even imagine running a marathon here....

GPS trace of what finally turns out to be my longest run here as of now with 17.5km in about 1h40.

A new neighbourhood to explore today: the South-West/West area. Indeed, my original plan was going towards Lagunas de Nejapa and Asososca. However, I now understood that such non urban areas in Managua are almost inaccessible.

It sound like walking and hiking in the nature is not something that urban inhabitants of Managua do often. So, in short, these places are....just impossible to go to.

Anyway, I wanted to see this, just in case. As a consequence, I ended heading westward from Hotel Seminole through Avenida Miguel Obando Y Bravo (the busy highway close to the hotel, where we boarded the Day Trip buses). Running along this one is not a bad thing as it is not that busy, particularly at 05:45..:-)

After crossinb Pista de la Unan that goes north towards the lake, I went 200m east then headed north up to reach the very busy Pista Juan Pablo II (or Pista de la Resistencia). For those who went to the day trip, this is the highway we went through at the beginning of the journey to Leon.

It sounds crazy to run along a busy highway but:

• it was not that busy at that time
• this is the only way to not get lost in the barrios as we'll see later on..:-)

I followed that one during about 4km until it ends facing a cone-style mountain, about 150m high (former volcano crater?)

After that long run straight, I ended at a big crossing, where the highways go either north or south....but a small street continues westward and is apparently going around the Laguna de Nejapa, at least according to Google Maps.

However, there is indeed, as too often here, a barrier (which OSM would have told me, indeed).

Hence, disappointed, I only could go back to the busy streets. I however decided that I would NOT come through the same way but rather try to run in smaller streets.

This is where the problem lies. Indeed, Managua "barrios" are not always connected by streets to the large and busy streets that surround them. This is mostly because several rivers run south to north, towards the lake. And these are canalyzed to avoid floodings, which means there are not that many bridges to cross them. So, it often ends that a barrio is only connected on one or two of its sides, which makes travelling through them particularly difficult and puzzling (especially going in the east-west directions).

So, I happened to search my way many times in these places, particularly in Barrio Pablo Sexto where the rivers directions are really confusing..:-)

I finally had no other choice than going down to the big Pista Juan Pablo II and come back the same way to the hotel.

The final result is a 15km run in 1h20. Not that a bad pace in these weather conditions.

GPS trace

I failed. I didn't go running the day after the Cheese and Wine party (tuesday). I wonder why...:-)

Indeed, I was feeling well, but slightly tired and I woke up at 8am, which means that I would have to go out quite late, in the heat...and run while feeling tired.

And something I have learnt in all my running activities is that when one feels not in shape, better not insist. This is where injuries can come.

Moreover, the next day was meant to be the Day Trip, with a goal for me: climb the Cerro negro volcano as fast as I can, training with my sticks for difficult climbs, in the heat...in the perspective of future races I would like to do in French Alps, in the upcoming years (such as La Montagn'hard : I recommend watching the video).

Sadly, a landslide has cut the road 2km away from the starting point and, despite my desperate attempts to still form a group of "strong people" to go there and do the extra 4km walk anyway....we later learned that the entire road to Cerro Negro is closed and we'd have no chance to go on it. That infortunate, though I hopefully have another chance in the upcoming two weeks, where I'm supposed to come back and climb the volcano with Elizabeth (but, I of course will not leave my beloved one alone on a volcano!).

So, I ended up staying on the beach at Las Peñitas. And, as I explained to Noèl, on days where I *decided* to run, I *need* to run. It's like a drug as you'd guess.

So, I went running on the beach..:-). In the early afternoon, during a very hot day (probably the best weather we ever had, which makes me even more regret "my" volcano), about 34°C, no shade...and some wind, and sand...:-)

Running on the beach is not as hard as one would imagine as long as you stay at the limit of the water, where the sand is compact. Indeed, this is even good for articulations as the sand soil is of course soft and absorbs impacts. The only drawback is that this beach is quite not so flat and this is sometimes like running across a hill all time long.

Anyway, I went north up to Poneloya, up to the point where a river blocks the path along the beach, then I headed back. I had originally the intent to continue south-east, past the place where we were, up to the start of Juan Venaco island. However, the face wind when comign back, as well as the very hot sun, really achieved me....and I decided it would be wiser to stop. I however couldn't resist running IN the waves, which means I now have very humid shoes (but I have two pairs of those...:-))

Today (Thursday), was a more standard run in Managua, with Noèl and Ralf. We once again went to the South suburbs|hills. All three of us were suite tired as it seems, so we chose a quite slow pace and, still, the climb was not that easy. We went the same way I went with Ralf a few days ago, but we didn't enter the "dogs path" this time, but rather tried to continue the road south.

After 4.5 km, we had however to stop because the path didn't go further and, anyway, I think it was enough for all of us..:-)

The way back, we tried another way, which was not particularly touristic (close to the National Soccer Stadium....a not so impressive stadium, but soccer is not the national sport here in Nicaragua, where people are more in base-ball or boxing).

Both GPS traces:

• Run on the beach
• Run in South Managua

See you tomorrow for yet another GPS trace..:-)

For once, I went north. Which means going *into* the city but I also need to explore that part of Managua, right?

Therefore, I went down north heading to the lake and Old Cathedral.

Surroundings of the Old Cathedral and Presidential House are strange. There is nearly nobody around, few activity. Doesn't look like a city's "heart".

I also reached the lakeshore. I already read that managua is more or less "turning its back" to its lake. It's really true. There's nearly no place where one can actually freely reach the lakeshore, at least where I was. Seems that, here also, the nasty habit of bars and restaurants to "privatize" the shores, as one can see in Italy, sometimes Mexico....is also happening. I'm happy we have laws against this in France, indeed.

Fun to also see a small recreation park...just like Coney Island, in some way..:)

Anyway, I could still reach the lakeshore at some point and take a picture of the Chiltepe Peninsula (guess what on it? A volcano, of course...).

I finally went back up through a different neighbourhood than the one I went down. Often "not so nice" streets, in some poor neighbourhood but, again, I always felt very safe....and people are still saying "bon dia" when you meet them.

GPS trace is here, as usual.

I've been lazy today: I just went to the same place than yesterday..:-)

I actually waslate and missed the meeting with Noèl who indeed went running in about the same neighbourhood, as well as Martin Bagge who went running on the road to the "Intermezzo" restaurant I described earlier..:-)

So, no real fancy description today. And, as usual, the full GPS trace is here.

The interesting challenge is to see if I can manage to achieve a run every day..:-). We'll see!

The challenge is now more and more to find good places to run without too much cars and noises....and not too far away.

Today, I think I made it well..:-)

After a look on the map, and some wild guess from what I now know of the way the city is organized, I decided to go south-west of Managa, from the hotel Seminole.

This is again a hilly run because, anyway, wherever you go south in Managua, you're going up.

Ralf, who arrived just yesterday, joined me and, I guess, enjoyed the run.

After going through an obviously quite rich neighbourhood with nice villas, gardeners, huge US truck-style cars, we went close to the Mormonschurch...and a mosque, then headed westward close to "Colegio Americano", with fences, walls, guards in the corner, etc. Seems that any tiny bit of USA in the world needs an army to protect it.

Crossing la Pista Suburbana, we then went on a very quiet roads towards the hill, in a very green and peaceful area. House there were really not as fancy as in other places, even seeming quite "poor" in some way. However, we never felt any problem and people we meet on the way are always friendly and smiling : "Hola", "Buenos Dias", etc.

At the end of the road, after about half an hour, we decided to head back. However, as going back the same way is boring, I suggested we head up west as my phone's map (it is very helpful to have a smartphone with GPS and Google Maps for wandering through unknwon places) was mentioning another road going north-west a little bit westward.

So we entered a small trail between house|farms...with dogs! These were a bit "scary" as they were barking at us and of course running entirely freely. On the other hand, none was really aggressive and we had no problem. I however saw a few people really staring at us as I guess there are not so many runners in this place..:-). But still, we never felt unsafe: just in a quite uncommon place.

After abotu 500m we found the "road" that was on my map: indeed a path going down slowly along the hill. And there was the marvel. An incredible panoramic view going going the volcanoes that are East and North of Leon : San Cristobal, Telica Rota, Pilas elHoj and last but definitely not least: EL MOMOTOMBO. A nearly perfect pyramid-style volcano that lies about 50km north-west of Managua, on the eastern shore of Managua Lake. The view there is...just fantastic with also a 180° panorama to West and North-West of the lake and the volcanoes area.

After this, all we had to do was heading back to the hotel and share this with you...:-)

As usual, the full GPS trace is here.

Yet another Grand Plan today: run in Masaya Volcan National Park.

Masaya Volcano is one of the most active volcanoes in Nicaragua. It is located only 20km south-east of Managua, so going there is as easy as renting a taxi.

The original plan was to drive to the entrance of the National park (on the road to Masaya city), then run up to the volcan, so from 250m altitude up to about 600m.

I therefore rented a taxi with the kind help of Norman, and we agreed to meet up at 08:30 at the hotel, along with Noèl and Daniel (who was planning to walk up, not running).

After discussing here or there, Kurt and Gaudenz joined, both with the intent of running up. Others would also have liked to join, but I wasn't in the mood of organizing a full bus of Debconfers..:-). My plan was to enjoy pyself the hike...not to manage several taxis, etc.

We thus packed in Denis blue taxi...a fancy and very visible customized blue car that looked like it had been the topic of on episode of the "Pimp My Ride" TV show..:-)

Sitting 4 people at the back of a regular car without hitting some blue neon lights, or 7" TV screens is kinda tricky, but we made it.

When arriving at the park's entrance, we however learned that it is forbidden to walk or hike up the road by foot, because of potential high concentrations of Carbon Dioxide. Sadly, we then had to pack again in the car and go up with it.

After reaching the parking close to the volcano's active crater (that is said to have a small lava lake at its bottom, one of the very few in the world), we decided to head up for going round the Nindira crater, an inactive crater located slightly above. Unfortunately, again, the path around the Masaya crater is forbidden to walk on, because of landslides.

We indeed still had great fun by running around this crater (which is about a 2.5 kilometers round trip, very very hilly and sometimes hard to run on such as a mountain path.

After about 50 minutes and two laps (after all, we had a giant stadium!), we headed back to the parking, packed 5 sweating geeks in the car and went back to the hotel.

Full GPS trace is here. I also put a few pictures on Facebook, supposedly visible by anybody : Masaya crater and Nindiri crater.

It's still good to be at Debcamp before DebConf and I'm not running all day long, contrary to what you might think by reading my posts.

Of course, I'm always busy with "social-like" activities such as doing my best for us to have a good Cheese and Wine Party as, now that I'm trapped into it, people expect it to be better and better each year. Or to revive the traditional Assassins game.

But Debian is not only about killing cheese with socks and I try to also achieve a few things while being here.

As of now, I can already count a few things:

• completing dpkg translation and dpkg manpages translations (I blessed Guillem Jover a lot for being so picky and changing so many details in dpkg messages....and I blessed Raphaël a lot for writing so detailed manpages). To be honest, that part was not achieved during Debcamp but during.....the flight from Paris to Atlanta and partly during the Atlanta-Managua flight. Being upgraded to Premium helped as there are power sockets in seats there..:-)
• completing APT translation and APT manpages translations. Here, a big work had been done by Justin Rye to bring more English in a big pile of Germish and I had to fight hard to check significative changes out of the typo and grammar fixes
• preparing a backport of samba for squeeze. We'll have samba 3.6.6 in wheezy and our squeeze users deserve it also
• go through a few leftovers from the Paris i18n sprint that created i18n.debian.org, such as creating a page for the I18n team.
• discuss (briefly) with David Prévot have the Debian website l10n pages point to material from i18n.debian.org and no longeri18n.debian.net

The only thing I nearly haven't worked on yet is....the talk I have on Sunday and that is supposed to explain newcomers how to join the crowd of localization fanatics.

Oh, and I'm still jetlagged and go to bed daily at 10pm...:-)

The Grand Plan today was reaching the end of the road I already explored on Tuesday. Named "Camino Las Viudas", it's climbing in the southern hills up to a place named "Intermzeeo del Bosque", apparently a very fancy (and expensive) restaurant.

The road climbs in the apparently "rich" neighbourhood of Managua, with very fancy villas as guarded by private security, as well as private condominiums, guarded as well.

What's funny to see is that, at the bottom of the road, when it crosses a large avenue (Pista Suburbana Espana), you can find several auto-rickshaws, just like those you find everywhere in India. Those autos apparently drive people who happen to work in these villas (like maids, gardeners, security guards, etc.) up to the place they work.

We even met two cows wandering on the road and I hesitated waiting for a rickshaw to show up and take a pic of the road (with holes), the auto and the cows, then pretending that I'm no longer in Nicaragua but back in Karnataka.

I did the run along with Noèl Köthe, who I was very happy to find again, restoring our now famous Debconf Runners Duet. We even found the German Embassy!

Though climb, even if we took care to start at 6 a.m. to avoid the heat (and also the traffic and noise). Noèl unfortunately had to give up at 1km from the top of the road, when a 15% climb suddenly "killed" his legs. I need to train him more for ups and downs..:-)

I could continue the road and finally reached the restaurant....which was guarded by private security (as apparently everything in this country) who unfortunately didn't let me in despite my desperate attempts to convince him, in broken Spanish, that I just wanted to take a few pictures and not place a bomb or rob someone...

So, I gota little bit disappointed and the only option was then....to run down for another 8.5 kilometers, accelerating all the way, to finish nearly at 14 km/h on Managua's sidewalks...Fun.

Great run (nearly 400m positive slope in less than 17km). Next challenge : find another such nice run in the neighbourhood! Maybe Volcan Masaya tomorrow.

GPS trace is here.

Second day in managua, second day running.

Today, after breakfast, so at about 7h45, I went out running with Gaudenz Steinlin. The goal was to go to laguna de Tiscapa, a lagoon of volcanic origin, in the middle of the city of Managua.

The laguna is not really far away from the place we're staying at (about 2.5km). However, as usual here, the only way to get there is along the streets. Noisy streets. Often smelly streets. But that's the only way.

For instance, it took Gaudenz several minutes before he could manage to cross the "Pista Beljamin Zelodon", a quite busy highway.

The lagoon per se is really nice, particularly the view from the Sandino monument where you can see the Peninsula de Chiltepe.

However, apart from that, it was sometimes a quite boring run because of the traffic, noise, etc. But I enjoyed again having a good run with Gaudenz. We'll do this again, but in another place..:-)

GPS trace for that run is here.

One part of my yearly activity at DebConf is exploring the conference neighbourhood for good running spots.

So, the first one this year has been an up and down run on "Camino Las Viudas", heading south from Managua.

The path is easy to find: when exiting from Hotel Seminole, turn right in the street, cross the large boulevard on continue staright ahead for how many kilometers as you want.

It climbs up in the hills all along, so that's quite a though one with about 5% slope all along.

I stopped in the middle of nothing, just because I didn't want to run for more than one hour. I'll have to come back and see where this road goes. It seems to be climbing continuously..:-)

So, one of my forthcoming plans is going to *the end* of this road, just to see what's there. From OpenStreetMap, it seems to end up in the hills.

The run trace can be seen there.

Jan Dejemyr reported Debian bug #680000 on Monday July 2nd, against update-manager-core.

Bug #670000 was reported as of April 22nd: 2 months and 10 days for 10,000 bugs. About a constant bug report rate (2 months and 7 days last time).

How will the wheezy freeze affect this? We'll see in two months!

D-I beta 1 is in preparation. Commits to level 1 are still allowed but no guarantee they'll make it to beta1 and therefore wheezy.

• Galician, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Basque complete level 2 (indeed I committed espeakup translations which I forgot to commit)
• Norwegian Bokmål completes level 2
• Romanian completes level 1
• As a consequence, Galician, Norwegian Bokmål, Thai and Traditional Chinese join the "fully complete" gang

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 55 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ro ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 language 98%: ga
• 2 languages 97%: hu lt
• 4 languages 95%: dz hr is mk
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 39 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs cy da de eo es eu fa fr gl gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nb nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv th tr uk zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 99%: fi hr vi
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 2 languages 97%: ta ug
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 41 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs cy da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 4 languages 98%: hu pt_BR ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 32 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Galician, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Norwegian Bokmål, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Thai, Turkish, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese

The D-I beta release is in preparation so we have many last minute updates and I'm uploading gazillion of packages. Each time, I upload one....a translator pops up and sends another update, etc. :-)

• Galician completed level 1, progress for level 2
• Irish progress in level 1
• Welsh completes level 2 and 3 and joins the Hall of Fame
• Croatian progress in level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 54 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gl gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 language 98%: ga
• 2 languages 97%: hu lt
• 5 languages 95%: dz hr is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 34 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs cy da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 8 languages 99%: eu fi gl hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 2 languages 97%: ta ug
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 41 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs cy da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 28 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Welsh, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Debian is such a universal system:

# apt-get install wine and cheese
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
The following extra packages will be installed:
  brasero brasero-common cheese-common desktop-file-utils evolution-data-server-common gcr gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-gst-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0
  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-evince-3.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0
  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gnome-desktop3-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-sushi gnome-video-effects gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly gvfs
  gvfs-backends gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs hwdata libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libcamel-1.2-29 libcap2-bin libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcdio13 libcheese-gtk21
  libcheese3 libclutter-1.0-0 libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 libcluttergesture-0.0.2-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango0
  libcogl9 libebook-1.2-12 libecal-1.2-10 libedataserver-1.2-15 libedataserverui-3.0-1 libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libexempi3 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-1 libgcr-3-common libgee2
  libgjs0b libglib2.0-data libgnome-desktop-3-2 libgssdp-1.0-3 libgupnp-1.0-4 libgxps2 libisofs6 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjte1 libmozjs185-1.0 libmpg123-0 libmx-1.0-2 libmx-bin
  libmx-common libnautilus-extension1a libpam-cap libpam-gnome-keyring libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler19 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libsidplay1 libt1-5 libtotem-plparser17
  libtracker-sparql-0.14-0 libwine libwine-alsa libwine-bin libwine-gecko-1.4 libwine-gl nautilus nautilus-data nautilus-sendto wine-bin
Suggested packages:
  libdvdcss2 gnome-video-effects-frei0r libcap-dev sidplay-base xsidplay wine-doc libwine-cms libwine-sane libwine-ldap libwine-print libwine-openal libwine-gphoto2 eog
  xdg-user-dirs tracker pidgin gajim ttf-mscorefonts-installer winbind avscan klamav clamav 
The following NEW packages will be installed:
  and brasero brasero-common cheese cheese-common desktop-file-utils evolution-data-server-common gcr gir1.2-atk-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-1.0 gir1.2-clutter-gst-1.0 gir1.2-cogl-1.0
  gir1.2-coglpango-1.0 gir1.2-evince-3.0 gir1.2-freedesktop gir1.2-gdkpixbuf-2.0 gir1.2-gst-plugins-base-0.10 gir1.2-gstreamer-0.10 gir1.2-gtk-3.0 gir1.2-gtkclutter-1.0
  gir1.2-gtksource-3.0 gir1.2-json-1.0 gir1.2-pango-1.0 gnome-desktop3-data gnome-icon-theme gnome-keyring gnome-sushi gnome-video-effects gstreamer0.10-plugins-ugly
  gvfs-backends hwdata libbrasero-media3-1 libburn4 libcamel-1.2-29 libcap2-bin libcdio-cdda1 libcdio-paranoia1 libcdio13 libcheese-gtk21 libcheese3 libclutter-1.0-0
  libclutter-1.0-common libclutter-gst-1.0-0 libclutter-gtk-1.0-0 libclutter-imcontext-0.1-0 libcluttergesture-0.0.2-0 libcogl-common libcogl-pango0 libcogl9 libebook-1.2-12
  libecal-1.2-10 libedataserver-1.2-15 libedataserverui-3.0-1 libevdocument3-4 libevview3-3 libexempi3 libgck-1-0 libgcr-3-1 libgcr-3-common libgee2 libgjs0b libglib2.0-data
  libgnome-desktop-3-2 libgssdp-1.0-3 libgupnp-1.0-4 libgxps2 libisofs6 libjson-glib-1.0-0 libjte1 libmozjs185-1.0 libmpg123-0 libmx-1.0-2 libmx-bin libmx-common
  libnautilus-extension1a libpam-cap libpam-gnome-keyring libpoppler-glib8 libpoppler19 libquvi-scripts libquvi7 libsidplay1 libt1-5 libtotem-plparser17 libtracker-sparql-0.14-0
  libwine libwine-alsa libwine-bin libwine-gecko-1.4 libwine-gl nautilus nautilus-data nautilus-sendto wine wine-bin The following packages will be upgraded:
  gvfs gvfs-common gvfs-daemons gvfs-libs   
4 upgraded, 95 newly installed, 0 to remove and 974 not upgraded.   
Need to get 100 MB/104 MB of archives.
After this operation, 250 MB of additional disk space will be used.

Thanks to Zobel, who pointed me to this one....

• Galician progress in level 1 and level 2
• Welsh completes level 1
• Latvan completes level 3 and is now 100% everywhere

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 53 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs cy da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 97%: ga hu lt
• 5 languages 95%: dz gl is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 33 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 7 languages 99%: eu fi hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 4 languages 98%: dz gl pt_BR ro
• 2 languages 97%: ta ug
• 2 languages 94%: ar el
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 40 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt lv nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 27 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Latvian, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

I made it..:-)

Despite quite horrible weather conditions (heavy rain before the race, strong rain during the first 1/2h, light rain up to half-marathon....and wind during the first 25 kilometers), I managed to break my personal best in a marathon, down to 3h38'45".

Not a huge improvement (1'35") but, given that this race is not the easiest ever (the last 17 kilometers are made of ups and downs, for a total 150 meters positive slope and 60 meters height difference between start and finish), a very good result indeed.

This has been my first "negative split" marathon, with a second half faster than the first. Also I managed to keep the same speed all along the race, each kilometer being 5'02" and 5'16" except one at 5'23 because of the steepest hill there. Final kilometer in 4'50"!

As I was hoping, training gives results...

Now, I'm heading to a summer without races, but probably great runs during DebConf in Nicaragua.

Next "big" race : Seine-Eure marathon, in Val de Rueil, France, on October 20th. Here, I again expect to break my PB as this is a very flat race (the place where I set my previous PB, indeed)

I'm about to leave today for St-Aubin sur Mer close to the start line of the Courants de la Liberté marathon. This race, meant to celebrate the June 6th 1944 D-Day, arrives at Caen, close to the WW2 memorial.

We'll spend a night in a hotel in St-Aubin and as of tomorrow 9h French time, I'll be on my way to try breaking my best time (3h4029"). Training has been as expected: no injury, all 32 trainings completed, with many many interval training (and some of them really though!).

So, I'm going there with great confidence. The only minor problem are weather conditions as the forcast announces some rain and 20-30km/h wind, from South (which we should be facing from km 20 to 25 and in the last kilometers).

I'll have my Runtastic and Endomondo Android apps running, so, in case looking at a blue spot on a French map for over 3 hours sounds interesting, you can go there or there (and send cheers, etc...but I'll switch off my phone's loudspeaker to avoid looking silly during the race!).

See you tomorrow for the outcome!

Re-publishing this today, as a number was wrong in previous post. Thanks also to Kumar Appaiah who, even though he's not a Tamil native speaker (he's the Hindi translator) fixed the few strings in Tamil that theoretically made it unsuitable for being in wheezy's installer.

• Tamil completed

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate 9 languages:

• Amharic (5f17u in sublevel 2)
• Croatian (16f19u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (17f47u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (12f25u, 6f22u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Nepali (16f54u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (13f34u, 13f23u)
• Albanian (19f50u, 13f23u)
• Tagalog (18f54u, 24f39u)

Update: Kumard Appaih *is* a Tamil native speaker. Sorry for the misunderstanding!

• Latvian and Lithuanian complete level 2
• Lithuanian completes level 3
• Tamil completes level 1
• Galician progress in level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 52 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv ta te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 97%: ga hu lt
• 4 languages 95%: dz is mk ro
• 1 language 94%: gl
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 33 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km lt lv mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 7 languages 99%: eu fi hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: ug
• 3 languages 94%: ar el gl
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 39 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km lt nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• 1 language 95%: lv
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 26 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

• Latvian is now completed.
• Lithuanian is now completed.
• Galician and Welsh completed sublevels 1 and 2

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate 14 languages:

• Amharic (5f17u in sublevel 2)
• Croatian (16f19u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (17f47u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (12f25u, 6f22u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Nepali (16f54u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (13f34u, 13f23u)
• Albanian (19f50u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f1u, 1f)
• Tagalog (18f54u, 24f39u)

This is time again for my annual report about the number of developers per country.

This is now the fourth edition of this report, after the 2011, 2010 and 2009 editions.

So, here we are with the June 2012 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
2011: rank in 2011 (June)
2012: rank now

Code	Name	Population	Act Dev	Dev	Act/Million	Dev/Million	2009	2010	June 2011	June 2012
fi	Finland	5259250	21	33	3,99	6,27	1	1	1	1
ie	Ireland	4670976	12	15	2,57	3,21	13	9	6	2	*
ch	Switzerland	7870134	20	26	2,54	3,3	2	2	2	3
mq	Martinique	396404	1	1	2,52	2,52			3	4
se	Sweden	9088728	22	37	2,42	4,07	3	6	7	5	*
no	Norway	4973029	12	15	2,41	3,02	5	4	4	6
nz	New Zealand	4331600	10	15	2,31	3,46	4	3	5	7
lu	Luxemburg	503302	1	1	1,99	1,99	8	5	8	8
de	Germany	81471834	155	223	1,9	2,74	7	7	9	9
at	Austria	8217280	14	24	1,7	2,92	6	8	10	10
fr	France	65350000	94	124	1,44	1,9	12	12	11	11
au	Australia	22607571	29	57	1,28	2,52	9	10	12	12
be	Belgium	11071483	13	16	1,17	1,45	10	11	13	13
uk	United-Kingdom	62698362	71	111	1,13	1,77	14	14	14	14
nl	Netherlands	16728091	18	38	1,08	2,27	11	13	15	15
ca	Canada	33476688	31	60	0,93	1,79	15	15	17	16	*
dk	Denmark	5529888	5	10	0,9	1,81	17	17	16	17
es	Spain	46754784	32	53	0,68	1,13	16	16	19	18	*
it	Italy	59464644	37	52	0,62	0,87	23	22	22	19	*
hu	Hungary	10076062	6	11	0,6	1,09	18	25	26	20	*
cz	Czech Rep	10190213	6	6	0,59	0,59	21	20	21	21
lt	Lithuania	3535547	2	2	0,57	0,57	28	19	20	22
bg	Bulgaria	7364570	4	4	0,54	0,54	25	23	23	23
us	USA	313232044	165	368	0,53	1,17	19	21	25	24	*
il	Israel	7740900	4	6	0,52	0,78	24	24	24	25
hr	Croatia	4290612	2	2	0,47	0,47	20	18	18	26	*
lv	Latvia	2204708	1	1	0,45	0,45	26	26	27	27
uy	Uruguay	3477778	1	2	0,29	0,58	22	27	28	28
jp	Japan	127078679	35	50	0,28	0,39	30	28	29	29
pl	Poland	38441588	9	13	0,23	0,34	29	29	30	30
cr	Costa Rica	4301712	1	1	0,23	0,23	31	30	31	31
ar	Argentina	40677348	8	10	0,2	0,25	34	33	35	32	*
sg	Singapore	5183700	1	1	0,19	0,19				33	*
pt	Portugal	10561614	2	4	0,19	0,38	27	32	32	34
gr	Greece	10787690	2	3	0,19	0,28	33	38	34	35
sk	Slovakia	5477038	1	1	0,18	0,18	32	31	33	36
tw	Taiwan	23040040	3	3	0,13	0,13	37	34	37	37
br	Brazil	192376496	21	22	0,11	0,11	36	35	38	38
by	Belarus	9577552	1	1	0,1	0,1	35	36	39	39
mg	Madagascar	21281844	2	2	0,09	0,09	44	37	40	40
cu	Cuba	11241161	1	1	0,09	0,09		38	41	41
kr	South Korea	48754657	4	6	0,08	0,12	39	39	42	42
ec	Ecuador	15007343	1	1	0,07	0,07		40	43	43
cl	Chile	16746491	1	2	0,06	0,12	42	41	44	44
ru	Russia	143030106	7	8	0,05	0,06	43	42	47	45	*
ro	Romania	21904551	1	2	0,05	0,09	45	43	45	46
co	Colombia	45566856	2	3	0,04	0,07	41	44	46	47
za	South Africa	50590000	2	9	0,04	0,18	38	48	48	48
ve	Venezuela	28047938	1	1	0,04	0,04	40	45	50	49
my	Malaysia	28250000	1	1	0,04	0,04			49	50
pe	Peru	29907003	1	1	0,03	0,03	46	46	51	51
tr	Turkey	74724269	2	2	0,03	0,03	47	47	52	52
mx	Mexico	112336538	2	2	0,02	0,02	49	49	53	53
th	Thailand	66720153	1	2	0,01	0,03	50	50	54	54
eg	Egypt	80081093	1	3	0,01	0,04	51	51	55	55
cn	China	1344413526	9	13	0,01	0,01	53	53	57	56
in	India	1210193422	8	8	0,01	0,01	52	52	56	57
sv	El Salvador	7066403	0	1	0	0,14			36	58	*
ua	Ukraine	45134707	0	0	0	0	48	53	58	59
			920	1490	61,74%

A few interesting facts:

• Ireland is the big surprise. It pops up to rank 2, thanks to 2 more developers in a relatively small country.
• Sweden climbs to rank 5. Three more active developers.
• Indeed, between Ireland (2) and New Zealand (7), the difference is really small and one more or less developer changes things significantly
• Finland is still way ahead others
• Canada takes over Denmark, thanks to four more active developers
• Spain, Italy and Hungary also increase their rank significantly.
• USA stops going down. The number of US developers is now increasing again
• No increase in number of german developers. Who said that Debian is a German cabal? Still, the devel/million ratio increases because....the population of Germany is decreasing..:-)
• One new country : Singapore, appearing immediately at rank 33
• We partly lose El Salvador where the only developer doesn't seem active anymore. Rene, wake up? :-)
• Once again, DebConf will be hosted in a country with NO Debian developer (Nicaragua). Just like last year, let's hope it will change.
• We have 24 more active Debian developers and 40 more developers overall.
• I kept Martinique separated from France. I already explained why last year..:)

PS: no, comments are still impossible on this blog. Yes, I know: not good. But I really don't want to have the hassle of dealing with spam and I'm old school. So, comments should be sent by mail to bubulle@d.o.

• The "Save the baltic languages" week..:-)
• Latvian translations completed for level 1. Latvian won't be deactivated!
• Also progress in levels 2 and 3 for Latvian
• Lithuanian progress for level 1. Language won't be deactivated!
• Estonian was already safe..:-)

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 51 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo lv mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 languages 99%: ta
• 2 languages 97%: ga hu
• 5 languages 95%: dz is lt mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 31 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 8 languages 99%: eu fi hr lv nb th vi zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: ug
• 3 languages 94%: ar el gl
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 38 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• 1 language 95%: lv
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 26 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

• Latvian is now completed.
• Lithuanian is now completed.
• I got an offer for Welsh

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate 14 languages:

• Amharic (5f17u in sublevel 2)
• Welsh (39f82u, 32f47u)
• Galician (7f10u, 6f9u)
• Croatian (16f19u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (17f47u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (12f25u, 6f22u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Nepali (16f54u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (13f34u, 13f23u)
• Albanian (19f50u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f1u, 1f)
• Tagalog (18f54u, 24f39u)

• Finnish completes level 1 and makes progress in level 2
• Danish, Persian, Hebrew are full 100% (they were indeed forgotten in last list, thanks to Phil Miller for pointing)
• Uyghur now finally listed in stats, as well as Tibetan. Sorry, the language not appearing was because I forgot a commit pending somewhere in my local copy of D-I repository.
• Marathi completes level 2
• console-data dropped from level 2 as it is not used anymore in D-I

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 50 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs da de el eo es et eu fa fi fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv te th tr ug uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 languages 99%: ta
• 2 languages 97%: ga hu
• 4 languages 95%: dz is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 31 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km mr nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 7 languages 99%: eu fi hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: ug
• 3 languages 94%: ar el gl
• 1 language 92%: sr
• 5 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 38 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: hu ug uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 26 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, Danish, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Hebrew, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Some more progress since my last entry....

Slovenian, Punjabi fully completed.

Romanian completed for first two sublevels, hence rescued.

Got signs of life from Galician, Croatian, Georgian, Malayalam, Nepali translators. But nothing happened yet

Got offers to help for Welsh, Lithuanian. But nothing happened yet.

Progress for Amharic in level 1

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate 14 languages:

• Amharic (2u, 14f17u)
• Welsh (39f82u, 32f47u)
• Galician (7f10u, 6f9u)
• Croatian (16f19u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (17f47u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (12f25u, 6f22u)
• Lithuanian (15f22u, 12f20u)
• Latvian (22f9u, 7f9u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Nepali (16f54u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (13f34u, 13f23u)
• Albanian (19f50u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f1u, 1f)
• Tagalog (18f54u, 24f39u)

Way before Debian, Launchpad bug tracking system just reached 1 million bugs reported with one "bug" reported against Edubuntu basically mentioning it should invade schools.

What to say about this?

Hard without being harsh towards my friends working in the Ubuntu "world", indeed. Still, I really think that here, too much noise kills signal and the LP BTS is often hardly usable.

I counted up to 217 bugs reported against samba4 (which is, after all, not so widely used yet) just because it apparently has upgrading issues between pre 12.04 versions of Ubuntu and Oneiric. It indeed seems that some automated bug reporting is now active and whenever a user encouters an upgrade issue with a package, a bug is being reported. I guess this is somehow an opt-in system (I hope so..:-)) but the default is very clearly using it.

This feature is apparently what caused the recent bump in number of bugs reported in LP, making them even less useful, particularly to Debian package maintainers. I'm sure there are tools to help dealing with that and I was already answered that work is in progress to change this (and use a dedicated website for such reports or something like this). But, still, that seems to be the scary side of popularity...the very same popularity that is slowly but constantly hiding the work we're doing in Debian to indirectly make Ubuntu popular.

(moving to more general concerns)

I know that things are not all black or all white, but it always saddens me to feel that slowly....but, again, constantly, more and more people tend to forget that Debian is behind Ubuntu, is the ground on which it is built and Ubuntu wouldn't exist without it. When doing work, a human need is to get reward for it...and we are getting less of it...slowly, but constantly.

Don't take me wrong. I have many friends working directly for Ubuntu. Some paid by Canonical for this. Some really involved up to "top level" (yes, including the very very top level even if I killed him once). I don't want to throw offense on them. I don't even know if they can do something about what I'm expressing below. I would just have them (and others) know.

Let's take an example. I recently activated a few languages in D-I (Burmese, Tibetan, Uyghur). I'm happy with that, this is something I'm doing for 8 years now. But all these new translators were indeed only interested in one thing : "have Ubuntu translated in their language". No offense intended, but they didn't really care about *Debian* being translated in their language. I think that some didn't even know what Debian is.

In the same field, I am more and more "fighting" to keep the level of translation completeness in Debian (see my regular spa^W reports). In some way, I still succeed, but the price to pay is more and more and more personal investment and work. That's still working for the strong set of languages we support. That works much less for most others. When someone "disappears" (or just switches to some other priorities), it's more and more difficult to find someone else popping up.

And, for the "strong set", something else is happening : work duplication. There are "strong" French, German, Italian, whatever, l10n teams in Debian.....and there are similar teams for Ubuntu. And, mostly, those do not really work together.

And sometimes, this is kinda discouraging. So, seeing the explosion happening on what is, whatever we think or write, the "other side", is not somethnig that can make one entirely happy. And this is why I won't celebrate Launchpad's millionth bug report.

Particularly when I see that millionth bug report not even ack'ing that this Edubuntu marvel is based on the grounds set by some pionneers many years ago in a few schools in Norway (hello, Petter and others).

Yeah, sometimes sad. To balance this, let's release wheezy and have millions of people benefit from it without even knowing.

Hey, thanks, Peter for the hint!

Never heard of that option until you blogged about it. So, now I'm also ready to "tar taf", "tar xaf", "tar caf"..:-). Harder for me than you because I was used to "tar tfz" or "tar tfj"..:-)

And I suspect that "tar taf" is prone to typos...we'll see.

This year, the annual Debian conference will be held in Managua, Nicaragua. And I'll be lucky enough to spend two weeks visiting the country after Debconf, along with Elisabeth.

Yes, I'll arrive in Nicarague on July 2nd, spend nearly the entire Debcamp, then Debconf, then we'll spend 16 days around the western part of Nicaragua, trying to discover the magic of this country.

So, this post is about sharing our plans with my readers. Of course, I do not know the country so we may have made mistakes and bad choices. We'll see.

Immediately after Debconf, Elisabeth will join in Managua. She'll be landing on July 15th. We'll then spend a night in an hotel near the airport and immediately leave the day after for Matagalpa, in North Nicaragua. We rented a car for the entire trip indeed, and will be on our own on wild Nicaragua roads..:-)

We'll spend two nights in Matagalpa. We plan to visit some coffee or cigar plants, probably have a trip to Lake Apanas and Jinotega.

Then, we'll have a short road trip to Esteli where we spend again two nights. We'll be visiting a coffee growing place (beneficio seco de café). A full day visit is planned at Miraflor natural reserve to enjoy te beauties of hundreds orchids and some local natural marvels.

The next move will be to Leon, where we'll spend 4 nights, visiting a cigar factory (tabacaleras de puros?) on the way, as well as San Jacinto, a place with hydrothermal sources and "Hervideros" (geysers).

Four nights in Leon leaves plenty of time for several activities *and* enjoying the colonial city. We'll have a full day at Juan Venado Island reserve with boat trip from Las Penitas (on a fisherman's boat from what the travel agency mentioned), then another full day climbing on the Cerro Negro volcano. Indeed, I was originally considering climbing the Momotombo, but our travel agency warned about the high difficulty. I would have loved that myself but maybe not the two of us...and this is a trip for both of us! So, we played the safe option..:-)

After these 4 nights in Leon, we'll move to Granada for 3 nights, through Leon Viejo (the former site of Leon).

From Granada, one day will there be used for a visit in the Masaya National Park and see the beauties of Masaya volcano (this is indeed something that could be done for Debconf day trip, IMHO, as it doesn't seem that far from Managua). Another day will be spent to Las Isletas on lake Nicaragua and others visiting the colonial city of Granada. Or, of course, whatever things we don't even known about now..:-)

Then we'll move to what I personnally consider the peak of the trip: 3 nights on Ometepe island on lake Nicaragua. Just check Wikipedia to see why Ometepe is, in my opinion, THE place to go in Nicaragua. Here, I'll have my volcano..:-). Indeed, Elizabeth "authorized" me to book a local guide and then climb Concepcion Volcan, if the weather allows for it. 1600m height, that doesn' seem to be a big issue....except when starting from a little bit above sea level and are climbing a volcano that looks like s postcard volcano : nearly a perfect cone shape.

So, let's cross fingers for having good weather that day. I promise myself I'll record the GPS track of that one and, even if I'll probably be walking most of the climbing (except if I have a very trained guide...), I'll add it to my run tracks!

We might also be going to climb Ometepe's other volcano (Maderas) the day after so that Elizabeth also enjoys these beauties. There also seems to be great places around Maderas such as San Ramon Cascade, Finca el Porvenir, etc.

Then, at the end of all this, it will be time to come back to Managua in the final day and fly back to Paris in the early morning of July 31st.

All over, I'll be in Nicaragua from July 2nd until July 31st! Full month away, yay! Hurrah for the crazy number of holidays those lazy French people have..:-)

During this trip, we might find it interesting some local geeks (not too many as Elizabeth is not that deeply interested in beersigning!) and share a few nice things in local places which are only known by locals.

In case you're interested, out (very clever) travel agency is named Nicaragua Adventures and they're definitely worth contacting if you want to travel around .ni, particularly if we prefer booking things in advance as we do. They speak Spanish (of course!), English and French. They're very responsive to e-mail as well.

• Slovenian is now fully complete. 23rd language to reach full 100%
• Danish, Basque and Punjabi complete level 1
• Vietnamese and Traditional Chinese complete level 3
• Progress for Traditional Chinese, Basque, Vietnamese in level 2

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 48 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs da de el eo es et eu fa fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo mr nb nl pa pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv te th tr uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 1 languages 99%: ta
• 3 languages 97%: fi ga hu
• 4 languages 95%: dz is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 30 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km nl pl pt ru si sk sl sv tr uk zh_CN
• 6 languages 99%: eu hr nb th vi zh_TW
• 3 languages 98%: dz pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 2 languages 95%: el fi
• 2 languages 94%: ar gl
• 7 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko mr ne sr
• 5 languages 91%: ga ka lt mk te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 38 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km nb nl pl pt ru sk sl sr sv th tr vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 23 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Slovenian, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

• Hebrew completes level 1
• Marathi completes level 1
• Lao completes level 1
• Slovenian back from hell and completes level 1..:-)
• More progress for Hungarian

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 45 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs de el eo es et fa fr gu he hi id it ja kk km kn ko lo mr nb nl pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sl sr sv te th tr uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 2 languages 99%: da ta
• 4 languages 97%: eu fi ga hu
• 4 languages 95%: dz is mk ro
• 1 language 92%: ml
• 1 language 91%: pa
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 29 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: nb sl th
• 5 languages 98%: dz eu hr pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 2 language 96%: vi zh_TW
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 2 languages 94%: ar gl
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 6 languages 91%: ga ka lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 35 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 22 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Some more progress since my last entry.... Hungarian, Hebrew, Lao, Marathi completed.

Got signs of life from Galician, Croatian, Georgian, Malayalam, Nepali translators.

Got offers to help for Welsh, Lithuanian, Romanian.

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate 17 languages:

• Amharic (9f59u, 14f17u)
• Welsh (54f118u, 32f47u)
• Galician (24f42u, 6f9u)
• Croatian (33f51u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (34f79u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (29f57u, 6f22u)
• Lithuanian (24f27u, 12f20u)
• Latvian (40f40u, 6f9u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Nepali (33f86u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (30f66u, 13f23u)
• Punjabi (28f58u, 1f)
• Romanian (2f1u, 1f)
• Slovenian (21f10u, 6f9u)
• Albanian (36f82u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f2u, 1f)
• Tagalog (35f86u, 24f39u)

I just read reports about Boston marathon 2012. Incredibly though race this year as the heat raised up to 32-35°C (around 90°F?) for the last runners and 26°C at 10:00 at marathon start.

The outcome is indeed impressive: the 2012 winner won with a "not so good" time of 2h12 while last year saw an unofficial world best time of 2h03'02" (there can't be any world record in Boston because of the race being one-way, thus prone to too favourable wind, plus a negative slope between start and finish).

Even though this year is less likely to see great records (because this is an olympic year and the best runners won't run another marathon before the Olympics), we still had times around 2h05 in Paris, Rotterdam....and this year's best time in London with 2h04'44" (Dubai time is 2h04'23" but I do not count this one as a mass marathon).

So, 2h12 in Boston just says how hard this race was.

But, still, that's my dream marathon, even more than NYC marathon. And I'll do it, I promise....though I now have to run below 3h30 to qualify....unless I'm still running marathons when I reach 55, where the qualificaiton mark will be only 3h40 (which is exactly my PB as of now). Will I still be able to run in 3h40 in 4 years? Or will I succeed in running in less than 3h30 in the meantime? We'll see..:-)

Until then....my first marathon for this year will be on June 9th, in Caen, as planned. Target: less than 3h40, despite the quite hard profile (and possible windy conditions as the first half of the race is along the famous Normandy beaches code named Sword, Gold and Juno, between Courseulles sur Mer and Ouistreham).

So, until then, I'll forget about my nice races in forests and plains, and concentrate on interval trainings, boring sequences of 400m or 1000m runs, etc, etc. That will be the first time I'm doing this but everybody keeps telling me I need to do that if I want to lower my PB (and every marathoner wants to!).

Julien Cristau reported Debian bug #670000 on Sunday April 22th, against libgtkada.

This bug is indeed part of a MBF for packages that are "marked as Multi-Arch: same, but contain files in arch-independent paths with arch-specific contents"

(doh, these multi-arch things are sometimes giving me headaches!)

Bug #660000 was reported as of February 15th: 2 months and 7 days for 10,000 bugs. As expected, QA work and release preparation do trigger an increase in bug report rate and we're now again quite close from the "10,000 bugs in two months mark".

I forgot to report that bug #666666 has been reported in the meantime. This time by one of the top bug reporters in Debian, namely Lucas Nussbaum, during one of his archive-wide package rebuilds, against psimedia.

Next step will be bug #680000, targeted in June 2012. With this rate, bug #700000 should be reported around mid-November 2012 and Kartik Mistry would win the Bug #700000 prediction contest".

In the meantime, Launchpad will have reached bug #1000000 (the highest bug number is currently #986849....which will be no longer true by the time you read this). The rate in LP is currently about 20,000 bugs per month. I wonder how many of these are closed as I feel like this is humanly impossible to process that many bug reports.

• Belarusian now complete again for level 1
• Vietnamese completely revived thanks to debian-l10n-vietnamese people
• Macedonian also comes back above 90% and on its way to 100%
• Traditional Chinese progress in level 2
• Asturian completes level 2 and is now 100% everywhere
• Progress for Hungarian in sublevels 1 and 2
• We currently focus on sublevels 1 and 2 as this is the key for a language to be activated

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 41 languages 100%: ar ast be bg bn bs ca cs de el eo es et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk km kn ko nb nl pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sr sv te th tr uk vi zh_CN zh_TW
• 3 languages 99%: da mr ta
• 3 languages 97%: eu fi ga
• 1 languages 96%: he
• 4 languages 95%: dz is mk ro
• 1 languages 94%: hu
• 1 languages 93%: lo
• 1 language 92%: ml
• 2 language 91%: pa sl
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 29 languages 100%: ast be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: nb sl th
• 5 languages 98%: dz eu hr pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 2 language 96%: vi zh_TW
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 2 languages 94%: ar gl
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 6 languages 91%: ga ka lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 35 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 22 languages: Asturian, Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Some more progress since my last entry.... Belarusian, Basque, Macedonian, Vietnamese are now safe for wheezy.

Also, some people popped up, offering help for Romanian and Croatian. And the Slovenian translator answered my mails, mentioning he'll do something.

Still, If I follow the policy we chose in D-I, I should deactivate languages that are not complete for what we call "sublevel 1" and "sublevel 2" in code Debian Installer.

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate 21 languages:

• Amharic (9f59u, 14f17u)
• Welsh (54f118u, 32f47u)
• Galician (24f42u, 6f9u)
• Hebrew (12f32u, 1f8u)
• Croatian (33f51u, 6f9u)
• Hungarian (2f1u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (34f79u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (29f57u, 6f22u)
• Lao (2f2u, 6f9u)
• Lithuanian (24f27u, 12f20u)
• Latvian (40f40u, 6f9u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Marathi (2f2u in sublevel 1)
• Nepali (33f86u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (30f66u, 13f23u)
• Punjabi (28f58u, 1f)
• Romanian (2f1u, 1f)
• Slovenian (21f10u, 6f9u)
• Albanian (36f82u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f2u, 1f)
• Tagalog (35f86u, 24f39u)

My last call, a bit alarming about some languages becoming candidates for being deactivated in D-I had some results.

A few teams updated at least sublevels 1 and 2 so that their language is "safe".

Still, If I follow the policy we chose in D-I, I should deactivate languages that are not complete for what we call "sublevel 1" and "sublevel 2" in code Debian Installer.

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate (stats in parenthesis are those in these sublevels, respectively):

• Amharic (9f59u, 14f17u)
• Belarusian (1f in sublevel 1 only!)
• Welsh (54f118u, 32f47u)
• Basque (4u, 1f)
• Galician (24f42u, 6f9u)
• Hebrew (12f32u, 1f8u)
• Croatian (33f51u, 6f9u)
• Hungarian (2f1u, 6f9u)
• Georgian (34f79u, 10f21u)
• Kurdish (29f57u, 6f22u)
• Lao (2f2u, 6f9u)
• Lithuanian (24f27u, 12f20u)
• Latvian (40f40u, 6f9u)
• Macedonian (2f4u, 6f9u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Marathi (2f2u in sublevel 1)
• Nepali (33f86u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (30f66u, 13f23u)
• Punjabi (28f58u, 1f)
• Romanian (2f1u, 1f)
• Slovenian (21f10u, 6f9u)
• Albanian (36f82u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f2u, 1f)
• Tagalog (35f86u, 24f39u)
• Vietnamese (22f11u, 8f10u)

That's way too many. So, before I blog everywhere that "Debian is dying" because I have to deactivate 20 languages in the installer...or before I blog that "Ubuntu steals our translators" (which is somehow true now, as half, if not more, of active translators are indeed interested in the Ubuntu installer to be translated, not the Debian one)....do something...or the Ubuntu installer will have 20 less languages..:-)

I just booked my flights for going to Managua next July.

I'll be leaving Paris on July 2nd, fly through Atlanta with Air France, then connect to Delta to Managua. A fairly simple trip that allows me to use my Air France miles..:-)

Elisabeth, my wife, will join in Managua around July 14th, then we'll spend two weeks visiting Nicaragua and leave back home on July 31st. That will be a wonderful trip.

See you in MGA!

Today, I did a big bunch of QA fixes on Debian Installer translations. The D-I "spellchecker", written years ago by Davide Viti, is still functional and very helpful to spot obvious mistakes.

You can find its results here.

Feel free to check your own language, particularly for "unknown words" (wrt aspell spellcheckers). There are many false positives (the spellcheck has the concept of exceptions for this, which explains why French has 0 errors...), but the spellchecker can already spot many typos and minor spelling errors. It also spots wrongly written variables, unbalanced quotes and parenthesis and a few other minor things.

I'm currently updating the ISO-3166-2 list in the iso-codes package.

This is the list of countries subdivisions and official codes for these subdivisions.

The funny part is that I just updated the names of states of India, some of them being often (much) more populated than most countries in the world : Maharashtra, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, etc. And some of them larger than most countries in the world.

And a few minutes after, I end up adding the 17 "quarters" of the city of Monaco. Yes, Monaco, one of the smallest countries in the world, has official subdivisions or "quartiers":

• Quartier de La Condamine (MC-CO)
• Quartier de Fontvielle (MC-FO)
• Jadin Exotique (MC-JE) .... "Borough of the Exotic garden"
• Quartier de la Gare (MC-GA) .... "Train station borough"
• Monaco-Ville (MC-MO)....Monaco-City....as is there was something else than a city in Monaco....
• etc.

Real fun..:-). And the funny part is that all this is translatable..:-)

• Esperanto is fully complete for all lavels
• A new "sublevel 6", not counted in statistics has been added. It will be used for strings that appear after a freeze or are modified after a freeze. Currently complete for 14 languages
• Khmer completes all levels. First time it is full 100%. Congrats to Khoem Sokhem
• Asturian completes level 1, progresses in level 2 and 3. Nearly 100% everywhere
• Progress for Icelandic and Irish in level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 39 languages 100%: ar ast bg bn bs ca cs de el eo es et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk km kn ko nb nl pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sr sv te th tr uk zh_CN zh_TW
• 4 languages 99%: be da mr ta
• 3 languages 97%: eu fi ga
• 1 languages 96%: he
• 3 languages 95%: dz is ro
• 2 languages 93%: hu lo
• 1 language 92%: ml
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 28 languages 100%: be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk km nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: ast nb sl th
• 5 languages 98%: dz eu hr pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: vi
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 3 languages 94%: ar gl zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 6 languages 91%: ga ka lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 35 languages 100%: ast be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk km nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 21 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Khmer, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

• I made some noise about languages eventually dropped from D-I. It had some results..:-)
• Spanish completed level 1 and is back to full 100%
• Ukrainian completes level 1 and just needs a small bit in level 3 to be fully 100%
• Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese complete level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 37 languages 100%: ar bg bn bs ca cs de el eo es et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk kn ko nb nl pl pt pt_BR ru si sk sr sv te th tr uk zh_CN zh_TW
• 6 languages 99%: ast be da km mr ta
• 2 languages 97%: eu fi
• 2 languages 96%: ga he
• 2 languages 95%: dz ro
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: ml
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 27 languages 100%: be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: nb sl th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz eu hr pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: vi
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 3 languages 94%: ar gl zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 7 languages 91%: ga ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 33 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 19 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, Spanish, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Please, pretty please, just do it.

However, don't forget: Debian localization material is spread in thousands of packages, with dozens of different VCS, hundreds of developers and hundreds of thousands of strings for up to seventy languages.

And there are less than 5 people running all this.

So, yeah, there are fancy "insert your favourite l10n tool of the day here" everywhere and we should rather be using them. But nobody prevents anybody to build something better than we we have now. Really, nothing. Do-ocracy, as we use to say.

Just do it and, in the meantime, suffer with us with what we have.

If I follow the policy we chose in D-I, I should deactivate languages that are not complete for what we call "sublevel 1" and "sublevel 2" in code Debian Installer.

At this very moment, it means that I would deactivate (stats in parenthesis are those in these sublevels, respectively):

• Amharic (9f59u, 14f17u)
• Asturian (1f in sublevel 2 only!)
• Belarusian (1f in sublevel 1 only!)
• Welsh (54f118u, 32f47u)
• Spanish (1u in sublevel 1 only!)
• Basque (4u, 1f)
• Galician (24f42u, 6f9u)
• Hebrew (12f32u, 1f8u)
• Croatian (33f51u, 6f9u)
• Hungarian (2f1u, 6f9u)
• Icelandic (2f2u, 1f)
• Georgian (34f79u, 10f21u)
• Khmer (2f2u, 1f)
• Kurdish (29f57u, 6f22u)
• Lao (2f2u, 6f9u)
• Lithuanian (24f27u, 12f20u)
• Latvian (40f40u, 6f9u)
• Macedonian (2f4u, 6f9u)
• Malayalam (5u in sublevel 2 only!)
• Marathi (2f2u in sublevel 1)
• Nepali (33f86u, 10f21u)
• Norwegian Nynorsk (30f66u, 13f23u)
• Punjabi (28f58u, 1f)
• Brazilian Portuguese (24f43u, 6f9u)
• Romanian (2f1u, 1f)
• Slovenian (21f10u, 6f9u)
• Albanian (36f82u, 13f23u)
• Tamil (2f2u, 1f)
• Tagalog (35f86u, 24f39u)
• Ukrainian (1f in sublevel 2 only!)
• Vietnamese (22f11u, 8f10u)
• Traditional Chinese (22f23u, 6f9u)

For several of these, the fix is easy! So, even if you're not the person in charge officially for the said language, please get in touch with me (bubulle@d.o) if you want to complete the translation.

For some of these languages, where contact with the translator in charge has apparently been lost, it could be their only chance to stay in wheezy.

• 18th language fully complete: Simplified Chinese (which I forgot: apologies to all my Chinese friends)
• Croatian progresses in level 2

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 33 languages 100%: ar bg bn bs ca cs de el eo et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk kn ko nb nl pl pt ru si sk sr sv te th tr zh_CN
• 8 languages 99%: ast be da es km mr ta uk
• 2 languages 97%: eu fi
• 2 languages 96%: ga he
• 3 languages 95%: dz ro zh_TW
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: ml
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 27 languages 100%: be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: nb sl th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz eu hr pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: vi
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 3 languages 94%: ar gl zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 7 languages 91%: ga ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 33 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 18 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

Looks like things are pretty much stalled now. Should I conclude that we have "only" 33 active translators while we have close to 70 supported languages?

Sad. Isn't it?

• Malayalam shows up above 90% in level 1
• Finnish translation revived thanks to a new translator
• Croatian completes level 3 (new translator showing up)

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 33 languages 100%: ar bg bn bs ca cs de el eo et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk kn ko nb nl pl pt ru si sk sr sv te th tr zh_CN
• 8 languages 99%: ast be da es km mr ta uk
• 2 languages 97%: eu fi
• 2 languages 96%: ga he
• 3 languages 95%: dz ro zh_TW
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: ml
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 27 languages 100%: be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: nb sl th
• 5 languages 98%: ast dz eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: vi
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 4 languages 94%: ar gl hr zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 7 languages 91%: ga ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 33 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he hr id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 17 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish

Everything is here. Indeed not: one can't write about the feeling you get when climbing the Old Lady stairs after 78 kilometers suffering in the woods.

I was close to resigning at km55 when cramps were showing up and my left ankle (which I twisted a week before) was nothing but a big ball of pain. And I finally managed to put the head lamp and resume running in the now desert woods of western Paris. Given the probably very high rate of resigns in this race (cause by an unusual heat), this is already a great result.

Now...recovering....and looking forward to the next goal: Caen marathon in early June.

Because of problems on name servers for the eu.org domain, my blog was not on Planet Debian for 2 weeks. Now I'm back, which explains why I "spammed" Planet last night with posts that seem a bit outdated, for some of them.

• Found a volunteer to work on Vietnamese translations (and got a mail from Clytie, yay)
• Gujarati completed level 2
• Progress for Norwegian Bokmål in level 2
• Bengali recompletes level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 33 languages 100%: ar bg bn bs ca cs de el eo et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk kn ko nb nl pl pt ru si sk sr sv te th tr zh_CN
• 8 languages 99%: ast be da es km mr ta uk
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 2 languages 96%: ga he
• 3 languages 95%: dz ro zh_TW
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 27 languages 100%: be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr gu he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: nb sl th
• 5 languages 98%: ast dz eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: vi
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 4 languages 94%: ar gl hr zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 7 languages 91%: ga ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 32 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 17 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish

We're now 2.5 months in 2012 and I'm indeed getting closer of my first big goal of the year : the 80km run of Paris Ecotrail.

The race takes place next Saturday, March 24th, with a start at 12:00 in the South-West of Paris area (close to our place). The race is mostly a trail race in woods and forests in the neighbourhood of Paris, going up and down in our small hills and valleys, passing along pools and lakes and indeed showing the natural beauties we have less than 20km away from center Paris.

The race ends at the Eiffel Tower. And they really mean it! The race ends at Eiffel Tower's *first floor* after climbing the steps there. Those of you who have been there can imagine the surprise of tourists from all over the world when hundreds of "road warriors" wearing water backpacks, head lamps and looking a bit tired come and climb the Old Lady's stairs.

So, in case you happen to be touring in Paris on the week-end of March 24-25, just pop up at Eiffel Tower around 10-11pm (yes, at night) and try to spot a bubulle crawling up there to reach the finish line..:-)

To prepare this, I already ran 538km in 2012, mostly done either with my daily commute runs...or with week-end long runs (up to 37km on march 4th, and many others above 20km).

I ran two half-marathons as well: one in February, where I nearly broke my record, finishing it in 1h37'45" even though this is a quite though race with two hills. I was very in shape that day and was lucky to run with a friend setting the pace for me, which helps a lot. Another half-marathon last Sunday in Rambouillet was also a good race, though I was secretly hoping to break my record there (the race is flat, much more than the former one). I had however to slow down from a 4'35"/km pace to 4'50"/km in order to preserve my condition. And, finally, I completed the race in 1h39'53".

So, two half-marathons in less than 1h40 again. That sounds promising for the Ecotrail (even if there nothing similar between a flat half-marathon and a hilly ultra-trail) and also for the next marathon, in June.

I'll keep you posted about the Ecotrail race but I can announce in advance that I'll be using the Runtastic app on my brand new Android phone, and people will be able to follow my race live here. And you'll even be able to cheer at /me..:-)

Next running update on Sunday 25th to give you the outcome....

So, since Wednesday, we have no more teenagers among our children.

Indeed, our youngest, Magali, turned 20 and we happily celebrated that in a japanese restaurant in Paris : Magali is living in a (very) small flat in Paris as she attends preparation courses for exams meant to enter physical therapist schools. She's currently working very hard to prepare these and is left with only one week before the first exam. We're 100% confident that she'll succeed.

Really, the days where our little shrimp was crawling across her bed, turning clockwise and finally sleeping in the width of the bed....do not seem so far. And still, these folks we call "our kids" are now grown-up persons living their own lives : Jean-Baptiste (some of my friends reading this blog have met him at DebConf 10) will soon enter profesionnal life after graduating an engineering school in electronics, at 24. Sophie, now 22, will resume her social worker school in Bordeaux in September and will probably start working as social worker ("assistante sociale", in French) afterwards. And we hope that our little shrimp (which her sister calls "mini-poop") starts a physical therapist school next year.

So, well, more and more, Elisabeth and I are old parents and weeks where we're indeed both alone at home are now common (not to mention weeks where only one of us is alone either because she has professionnal commitments on some other side of the planet or I have some free software event on another side of the planet).

It is indeed really likely that this year's holidays will be the first ones where we have a distant travel...which we'll be doing alone. Holidays in Nicaragua (you probably guess why Nicaragua) are much awaited and will be enjoyed a lot, but still...:-)

So, well, to all those of you who read this and are parents, or plan to become parents, be happy. The wonder that it is lasts for years and it's very hard to describe precisely the link that connects parents and their children. At least the one we have with our children, which both us and them are proud of. And that pride and this link have no price. I really wish you guys to develop the same with your newborns (particularly those of you who very very very recently became parents anbd, yes I mean you who know who you are...).

• Persian, Korean, Simplified Chinese, Esperanto, Bosnian, Japanese, Kannada, Norwegian Bokmål, Telugu complete level 1
• Progress for Danish in level 1, also completed level 3
• Progress for Belarusian and Bengali in level 1
• Progress for Catalan in level 2
• I mailed a few translators asking them if they can complete level 2 translations (be, sv, th, ast, dz, ca)
• As a result: Belarusian complete level 2 and is now full 100%. First time ever for this language!
• Catalan too is now full 100%. World domination (© Jordi Mallach)
• Swedish, too, is back to 100% for level 2 and now full 100%
• Japanese back to full 100% Tireless Muto-sensei...

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 32 languages 100%: ar bg bs ca cs de el eo et fa fr gu hi id it ja kk kn ko nb nl pl pt ru si sk sr sv te th tr zh_CN
• 9 languages 99%: ast be bn da es km mr ta uk
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 2 languages 96%: ga he
• 3 languages 95%: dz ro zh_TW
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 26 languages 100%: be bg ca cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk sv tr uk zh_CN
• 2 languages 99%: sl th
• 5 languages 98%: ast dz eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 8 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 32 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs da de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 17 languages: Belarusian, Bulgarian, Catalan, Czech, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Swedish, Turkish

• More recompleted languages in level 1: Estonian, Gujarati, Italian, Kazakh, Dutch, Sinhala, Serbian, Turkish
• I spammed all D-I translators to complete their work. Also fixed many wrong or missing mail addresses in Last-Translator fields, that were preventing them to get update notices
• So, now I'm ready for dozens of commits during the week-end..:-)

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 23 languages 100%: ar bg ca cs de el et fr gu hi id it kk nl pl pt ru si sk sr sv th tr
• 15 languages 99%: ast bs eo es fa ja km kn ko mr nb sv ta te uk zh_SN
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 3 languages 96%: be ga he
• 5 languages 95%: bn da dz ro zh_TW
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 8 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 31 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 13 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, French, Indonesian, Italian, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish

• Stats "broken" again by...me...adding one string to console-setup and fixing two spelling errors.
• 14 languages back again to 100%
• Catalan back to full 100% (full update by Jordi, yay)

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 15 languages 100%: ar bg ca cs de el fr hi id pl pt ru sk sv th
• 23 languages 99%: ast bs eo es et fa gu it ja kk km kn ko mr nb nl si sr sv ta te tr uk zh_SN
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 3 languages 96%: be ga he
• 5 languages 95%: bn da dz ro zh_TW
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 3 language 91%: pa sl vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 8 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 31 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 9 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, French, Indonesian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak

• Estonian reaches 100% in level 1
• 24 other languages back to 100% in level 1 and 6 are again fully complete
• Irish progress in level 1
• Catalan progress in level 1
• Tamil progress in level 2

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 25 languages 100%: bg bs cs de el eo es et fa fr gu id it ja kk mr nl pl pt ru sk sr th tr zh_CN
• 12 languages 99%: ar ast hi km kn ko nb si sv ta te uk
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 3 languages 96%: be ga he
• 5 languages 95%: bn da dz ro zh_TW
• 1 language 94%: ca
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: sl
• 2 languages 91%: pa vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 97%: ta
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 8 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 31 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 18 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish, Simplified Chinese

• Progress for Danish in level 1
• 34 languages down to 99% in level 1 because one string changed in user-setup

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 36 languages 99%: ar ast bg bs cs de el eo es fa fr gu hi id it ja kk km kn ko mr nb nl pl pt ru si sk sr sv ta te th tr uk zh_CN
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 2 languages 96%: be he
• 6 languages 95%: bn da dz et ro zh_TW
• 1 language 94%: ga
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: sl
• 2 languages 91%: pa vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 9 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr ta te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 31 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 0 languages

Beatrice Torracca reported the Debian bug #660000 on Wednesday February 15th, against wide-dhcpv6.

That one makes me happy, because it is occurring during one of my numerous l10n "NMU" proposals and it is likely that I'll be the one who closes it (unless Jérémie Corbier reacts to my l10n NMU proposal).

It also makes me happy because Beatrice is participating to the great localization work of the Italian team where she is one of the most active contributors along with Francesca Ciceri. Hats off to italian ladies!

Bug #650000 was reported as of November 25th. 2 months and 20 days for 10,000 bugs. The rate didn't really change and I expect it to increase a little bit as quality work related to release preparation will be increasing in the upcoming months.

As usual, see you about 2.5 months for bug #670000 but, in the meantime, I might be "celebrating" Debian bug #666666. We all like nice numbers, isn't it?

• Indonesian completes level 1 and 3 and is now 100% everywhere
• Turkish completes level 1 and is now 100% everywhere

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 34 languages 100%: ar ast bg bs cs de el eo es fa fr gu hi id it ja kk km kn ko mr nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv ta th tr uk zh_CN
• 2 languages 99%: si te
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 2 languages 96%: be he
• 5 languages 95%: bn dz et ro zh_TW
• 2 languages 94%: da ga
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: sl
• 2 languages 91%: pa vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 9 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr ta te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 31 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he id is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 18 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Slovak, Turkish Simplified Chinese

I imagine my readers (except those from India) : "Kannada, WTF"?

No, this is not about D-I being translated into the variants of English and French spoken with a funny accent in a very big country located north of the United States of America, where they play ice hockey against mooses, wearing red policemen suits, with fur hats and drinking maple syrup.

Kannada is the official language of the state of Karnataka, in southern India. The state that has Bangalore, the IT-leading city in India as capital.

Kannada is spoken by about 45 million people, roughly the population of Spain.

And, since yesterday, thanks to a local group lead by Vikram Vincent, Debian Installer is fully translated to Kannada.

As of now, this is the 5th complete language of India along with Gujarati (46M speakers as first language), Hindi (180M, though some references mention 550M), Marathi (68M) and Tamil (62M).

Other supported languages of India are Telugu (99% translated, 70M), Bengali (95%, 71M plus 110M in Bangladesh), Punjabi (91%, 28M) and Malayalam (86%, 36M).

As you see, translators in India are really incredibly active and the free software community over there deserves some big light. We don't have many opportunities to meet up as traveling is not easy for contributors in India because, among other problems, of visa regulations for Indian citizens in many so-called western countries. So, really, I wanted to thank them again for this work.

• Kannada compeltes level 1 for the first time
• Asturian, Bosnian complete level 1
• Indonesian completes level 2
• Progress for Dzongkha in level 2
• Progress for Indonesian and Turkish in level 1

Status for D-I level 1 (core D-I files):

• 32 languages 100%: ar ast bg bs cs de el eo es fa fr gu hi it ja kk km kn ko mr nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv ta th uk zh_CN
• 3 languages 99%: si te tr>
• 1 language 98%: id
• 1 language 97%: eu
• 2 languages 96%: be he
• 5 languages 95%: bn dz et ro zh_TW
• 2 languages 94%: da ga
• 3 languages 93%: hu is lo
• 1 language 92%: sl
• 2 languages 91%: pa vi
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 2 (packages that have localized material that may appear during default installs, such as iso-codes, tasksel, etc.):

• 23 languages 100%: bg cs da de eo es fa fr he id is it ja kk nl pl pt ru si sk tr uk zh_CN
• 4 languages 99%: be sl sv th
• 6 languages 98%: ast dz ca eu pt_BR ro
• 1 language 96%: nb
• 2 langauges 95%: el fi
• 5 languages 94%: ar gl hr vi zh_TW
• 6 languages 92%: bn bs hu ko ne sr
• 9 languages 91%: ga gu ka km lt mk mr ta te
• others are 90% or below

Status for D-I level 3 (packages that have localized material that may appear during non-default installs, such as win32-loader)

• 30 languages 100%: be bg bs ca cs de el eo es fa fi fr ga gl he is it ja kk nb nl pl pt ru sk sr sv th tr zh_CN
• 2 languages 98%: hu uk
• others are 90% or below

Full 100% completeness (hall of fame) for 17 languages: Bulgarian, Czech, German, Esperanto, Spanish, Persian, French, Italian, Japanese, Kazakh, Dutch,

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2012 update 7 for Debian Installer localization

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Nine years after...

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2012 update 6 for Debian Installer localization

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2012 update 5 for Debian Installer localization

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Zou....Italian (and Danish, and Dutch....) take off!

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Aptitude revival

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2012 update 4 for Debian Installer localization

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To be the coolest...

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[life] [running] 2011 summary

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Towards 100% in wheezy for debconf translations

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2012 update 3 for Debian Installer localization

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2012 update 2 for Debian Installer localization

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New update about Debian Installer localization

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