I shouldn’t really be reporting this after all my GNOME bashing over the last few days 
But I always aim for an unbias news-grabbing policy (except when Micro$oft is concerned), so here it is:
Source: GNOME Mailing lists
[I]Some people commented that the 2.15.1 announce contained too many
exclamation marks in only one sentence. Now, this is an important thing
to fix. It’s true (is it?!?) that we need (do we?!?) to write good
announcements, that are readable by everyone. That’s why I propose
to write them in French, a language that everyone should know and that
is really easy to learn (really, you just have to remember about some
thousands of exceptions). Ceci n’est absolument pas une conspiration
francophone. D’ailleurs, ni Frédéric, ni Sébastien, ni Daniel, ni
quiconque d’autre n’est au courant. Je profite de cette annonce pour
proposer d’utiliser le Français comme langue par défaut dans GNOME dès
sa prochaine version, sauf opposition d’au moins une personne. On ne
pourra pas dire que je n’ai pas essayé
This is our second development release on our road towards GNOME 2.16.0,
which will be released in September 2006. GNOME 2.15.2 works well and
you should definitely try it to see how well it works. So go download it.
Go compile it. Go test it. And go hack on it, document it, translate it,
fix it.[/I]
Download links here