Hello, Next release is not so far, it is then necessary to recap what is done and what is still to be done. Hope you'll find yourself interested in helping next release to be published quicker! ;)
Cheers, JM. Translations ------------ Translation progress is good. However I fear that we still won't have any page to show on our website for Chinese, Dutch and German by the end of the month. If you have some more time to spend on the project, please try to translate the main pages: homepage, download page, quick start. You can ask Marian or Sergey to help you start translating our website (and you probably need me to create an account for you). Development ----------- We are still late and won't be able to redesign the persistence tool interface. But we have a new tool to set the menu of activities and there will soon be additional sessions (activities) thanks to TSPU collaboration. We would like to close the following tickets for next release: * Monitor not detected (https://gna.org/bugs/?17228) * Pysycache is still in English on the Russian CD (https://gna.org/bugs/?17592) * Vkeybd cannot be translated (https://gna.org/bugs/?16870) * Gamine cannot be translated (https://gna.org/bugs/?16895) * LiveUSB-write: crash due to wrong number of %s in Russian PO file (https://gna.org/bugs/?17360) * Setting sync value to auto cause screen chaos (https://gna.org/bugs/?17404) * Discard logging as 'nobody' from GDM (https://gna.org/bugs/?17512) * Persistence is most probably not available on ntfs (https://gna.org/bugs/?16040) * Copying data from basic sessions is not easy (https://gna.org/bugs/?16967) * Screen resolution is not saved when persistence is enabled (https://gna.org/bugs/?17237) * Add a nice GUI to set time (https://gna.org/task/?7174) * Generate a single modified KDE i18n package per language (https://gna.org/task/?7259) * Set of gCompris apps for 2-7 and 7+ kids (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7289) * kTuberling - replace English sound with russian for Russian version (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7294) * Write a nice interface to set the session menu (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7300) * Modify algorythm generating Russian names of web-pages (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7302) * A nice GUI for the hardware report tool (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7245) * Insert translated welcome texts in boot image (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7253) * Force video driver based on lspci result (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7267) * Use hardware signature to remember video settings (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7268) * New release banner (https://gna.org/task/index.php?7312) Don't be afraid of the list length, many tickets are on status “Ready for test” :). Nevertheless there is still a lot of work :(. So please take the necessary time to download the latest builds available, test them and comment or close the corresponding tickets. I haven't been able to build new CD's during the past 3-4 days but I plan to upload new builds onto the dailybuild section very soon. Documentation ------------- Here is a list of the missing web pages (not sure whether this is exhaustive or not): * Setting screen resolution (with the case of 2 screens) * Setting menu of activities * Setting date and time * Reporting an issue (with the hardware report tool) Pages to be modified: * All the pages speaking of the menu of activities → replace the word session with activity New tips, tricks, known issues: * Copying data from other activities (for example copying the draws of the TuxPaint activity from the Whole DDL activity) * Persistence unavailable on Ntfs > Hello! > > I recall you that our next release will be 2011-02 due to late > February. We still have 4 weeks to do the necessary job. > > Concerning languages, we'll have at least 3 more officially supported > languages, Dutch, German and Chinese. I may add a new demo language, > likely Indonesian (I won't have the time to setup a non-Latin > environment such as needed for Hindi or Japanese). We can expect the > following status for translations, please correct me if I'm lying ;) > : > > * Arabic → CD 30% translated > * Chinese → CD 100% + few web pages > * Dutch → CD 100% + few web pages > * English → 100% > * French → 100% > * German → CD 100% + few web pages > * Romanian → 100% > * Russian → 100% > * Serbian → CD 50% translated + main web pages > * Spanish → CD 80% translated + main web pages > * Ukrainian → CD 40% translated > > NB: when I'm writing CD 100%, I don't take into account applications > that would not be on Transifex but still require translation. > > I ask translators to target the 18th February for the latest > translation files to include in this release. As there are more and > more CD's to upload, I'll need 2-3 days to upload all of them! > > Concerning our website, we'll have to update documentation. If you > want the CD to include the latest documentation available, the target > is still the 18th February. Indeed PDF documentation is built from web > pages then included in the CD. Currently we don't have so many pages > to update because we're late for development :(. Marian will give us > news when he detects changes in the English section. > > If you look at our road map, you'll see the following list of > technical tasks: > > * redesign the hardware issue tool interface → not started yet (web > page wanted) > * redesign the persistence tool interface → not started yet, I fear > it's too much work to be done *and* tested before end of February > * provide a single image file for the CD and the USB key → trials > failed until now, should likely be postponed > * write a nice interface to set date and time → on the road (Richard) > (web page wanted) > > On the other hand, new tasks have been added: > > * a nice interface to set the session menu → on the road (JM) (web > page wanted) > * additional sessions (pedagogical recommendations + sound volume) → > not started (web page update required) > > Finally there are also bug fixes to achieve, this is why I don't think > our road map need to be adapted. > > To conclude, some words about graphic design: > > * a new banner on our website for next release would be appreciated > (I'd like to change it for each release) > * we can start CD graphical design by changing the boot image and the > session menu image, no matter if it is changed again when we'll have > agreed on our mascot and our heros > > I hope everyone has identified where (s)he has to provide his effort, > if you believe that things are not so clear, please let me know. > > Cheers, > > JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
