04.22.08
Camino 1.6 Spanish is coming
Many of you have noticed that we shipped Camino 1.6 without a Spanish localization.
Let me assure everyone that both the Camino development team and the Camino localizers were unhappy about this, too. However, all Camino work—development and localization—is done by volunteers, and schedules of volunteers do not always line up. This was exactly the case with our Spanish localization; it wasn’t going to be ready in time for us to ship Camino 1.6 as planned last week. We knew this in advance, and while we always hate to ship a Camino release without a language included in the previous version, we needed to ship 1.6 and we did have 10 other languages ready.
As of this evening, the Spanish translation is nearly complete, and the first review indicates there is not much more work to be done. I can’t promise you a new Camino 1.6 Multilingual build that includes Spanish by the end of the week, but it is safe to say that you’ll see Spanish in the Multilingual build very soon.
As always, if you’re concerned about the status of the translation of Camino in your language, please stop by the caminol10n project and see how you can help. You don’t need to have many computer/software skills, and some languages just need reviewer/proofreaders—the only skill required for that task is your language and the ability to use Camino!
We thank all of our Spanish-speaking users for their patience, and we do hope to deliver the Spanish localization very soon.