Hello! Unfortunately it's been difficult to work for next release during the past week, but we have some good reasons not to feel guilty (see the monthly stats :) ). For our new contributors, let's first explain that I proposed last month to release a new version of DoudouLinux (DDL) in November. We are in November! New languages may not be so much translated until this release but this is not a problem: we will release your language too!
Now let's see what was planned… > It seems that we have achieved most of the technical work for the next > release. So I would like to make a work report. Of course tell me if > I'm wrong about your work achievement status! It's still right. For our new members, I think this release will have a killer feature: web content filtering to prevent our children from visiting “naughty” websites. I also plan to publish many new “raw” languages (= no translator to do the job, yet ;) ). > Concerning system improvement, only bug fixes should now be required. Yes, except that many tickets have been written since 2 weeks… I would like you to look at our bug and task lists: https://gna.org/bugs/?group=doudoulinux https://gna.org/task/?group=doudoulinux For next release I would like to solve or find a workaround for these bugs: https://gna.org/bugs/?16892 https://gna.org/bugs/?17013 https://gna.org/bugs/?17027 https://gna.org/bugs/?16890 https://gna.org/bugs/?16925 https://gna.org/bugs/?16943 https://gna.org/bugs/?16090 https://gna.org/bugs/?16893 https://gna.org/bugs/?16928 https://gna.org/bugs/?16951 https://gna.org/bugs/?16952 (don't worry many of them already have solutions!) And to achieve these tasks: https://gna.org/task/?7237 https://gna.org/task/?7212 https://gna.org/task/?7117 https://gna.org/task/?7161 Please take the necessary time to write additional information to the tickets whenever needed and switch them to “done” when it makes sense. Of course our new contributors can help too by downloading the latest CD's from the dailybuild section and by testing by themselves. Here is the link: http://download.doudoulinux.org/livecd/dailybuild/ The same exists with USB keys (try liveusb instead of livecd) but they may be not as fresh as CD's. Finally people who have technical skills can tell me if they feel like solving one ticket or more by themselves, I'm not selfish concerning tickets! ;) I'd even say that I prefer seeing you working temporarily on technical issues than on filling PO files or writing pages. > Concerning source code, that's OK and already in use. Concerning > localization, AFAIK French and Romanian are OK. I'm unsure about > Russian (nearly OK? I think Pysycache is still missing); Spanish and > Arabic are still under work. > > > * localization > > - French: Lx apps > > - Arabic, Spanish: system environment > > - Romanian, Russian: system environment + Lx apps + > > pysycache/gcompris The question is still unanswered about language progress… But now PO files are better than ever thanks to Transifex which hosts many of our applications too. I also see modified PO files coming again to me: we're on a good way. *Important*: please now only get your PO files from SVN or Transifex. > Concerning documentation, the work is just starting to complete > English, French, Romanian and Russian. We should also list what pages > need modification due to DDL changes (for example screenshots of mouse > and sound card tools). For Arabic and Spanish, do your best! I'd > prefer have a good DoudouLinux environment for the next release than a > good documentation because documentation can be easily updated on the > flow, not the downloadable CD… > > NB: if you are in charge of web pages, try to regularly visit the > website and look at English page history. This way you will know when > pages in your language need updating. I didn't change my point of view: still a lot to do and even more than I initially thought. For our new members, you can know what reference pages have changed on the history page per language: http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/ecrire/?exec=suivi_revisions&id_secteur=2 http://www.doudoulinux.org/web/ecrire/?exec=suivi_revisions&id_secteur=1 The first one is English, the second one is French. Please also note that many pages in the developers section need updating due to the switch to Transifex. Well, there's still a lot of work… But I'm confident we should be able to land DDL 2010-11 in late November! Sincerely yours, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
