Status of Debian Project

[anmar oueja <anmar at canada dot com>]

Salam all:

I will be providing a weekly update on each project I am maintaining 
(Debian, Arabbix, OpenOffice)

As some of you know, Debian New installer is now patched to support bidi 
and shaping for Arabic. In light of that change, the Debian project at 
arabeyes switched into high gear. Here are the status:

1. Currently, Debian installer release RC1 does not have the bidi patch 
but the next one RC2 should have it. I will let you know once it is 
released so you can test it.

http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/

2. Installer is broken into 3 stages.

http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/translate/debian/

- Stage 1 is 55% translated to Arabic.
	- Abdulaziz Al-Arfaj
	- Ossama Khayat
	- Want to add your name here, let me know (on the doc list) and I will 
assign you some files

are working on the Debian installer Arabic translation.
	
- Please ignore stage 2 and stage 3 as they are dependent on a NON-bidi 
slang package. Since the slang package is part of the frozen Debian base 
system, it is going to be difficult to replace the old slang with the 
new slang-bidi package. A requisition has been placed but it is 
difficult to guess the outcome. I will let you know if there is a vote 
available on that subject or if anything changes

3. There is talk to starting a new  debian-l10n-bidi list for all 
translators of bidi languages (i.e. RTL). I have sent an email to doc 
list soliciting for ideas
(http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/doc/2004/June/msg00149.html)

If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to voice them on 
doc mailing list. Please confine all your questions and discussion 
regarding Debian New Installer to doc mailing list.

Salam,

Anmar