Sorting languages in the tasks list

Quoting Frans Pop (elendil@planet.nl):

> > Another idea would be ranking languages by number of speakers.
>
> And put Dutch way down the list? Never! :-P
>
> Or maybe % of completed po-debconf translations? Or ...
>
> I'd say that relative contribution to Debian would be a pretty fair
> criterion, which probably would come close to justifying the list you
> proposed...

I thought a little bit deeper about the various options we have. I finally concluded that the grouping by families has no real advantage and is anyway quite arbitrary.

It is very hard to find a sort method that doesn't include any arbitrary choice by the person who makes the choice.

I finally concluded the the best option could be sorting languages wrt the moment D-I (and boot floppies earlier) included the relevant translation.

This is roughly given a credit for the "contributed early to Debian" part.

I think that I have enough memory of the time each language was activated in D-I (we have such info in languages.xml) and can come up with something. It will be probably hard to sort between the very first ones (those that were supported in woody) because I think noone remembers whether Dutch appeared before French, but that's of low importance and we'll then use the alphabetical order.

Would that be OK?

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Generally speaking, there are quite few reasons for putting the <lang> tasks before the <lang-desktop>: most of the <lang> tasks are made of dictionaries and/or manpages while -desktop ones are translations and/or fonts or input methods, which I consider more important for a given language support.

That would bring:

-desktop tasks, sorted according to the moment D-I was translated to that language

<lang> tasks, sorted with the same criteria

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