Yes, it was in progress indeed.
The French translation took so look because each time we sent the files to a translator, he subsequently became too busy with his own work and was not able to finish the translation in a reasonable amount of time (or just disappeared). So, we sent the files to somebody else... and this has repeated multiple times.
Note - I'm not blaming anybody, the guys did it for free and of course, their own work has higher priority. I'm just explaining why it took so long.
I am also not saying that it would have been your case as well - but we couldn't know, right?
A beta version should be available during the next week.