Hello there! We're now ending our month of communication with articles or posts published in Chinese, Dutch, Romanian and Russian. Thanks to all the people who got involved in making DDL more known around the world :).
Although you can keep on trying to advertise about our project, we're going to go back to artistic/technical tasks for April so that next release can be tested and documented in May. I recall that the release is planned for late May. Of course anyone interested in helping the artistic/technical tasks is welcome, I already had a positive answer from Janneth (development) and Elisa (website, graphics). Don't hesitate to stop your translations during several weeks and help us ;). So you'll find at the bottom of this mail the current list of tasks that I find interesting for this release. Do not hesitate to suggest additional tasks if you have any, especially for graphic design. On the other hand in our road map we have written the following list which is not totally matching with my current list: * improve user interfaces of tools for persistence activation and for submitting a hardware issue * improve user interface for the DoudouLinux installation tool * allow updating DoudouLinux without wiping your entire disk * a tool to set the time of day * a tool to change the keyboard layout of a previously downloaded ISO image In my opinion these points are not so urgent now that Gérald has started to work on porting DDL to the new Debian stable, Squeeze. There are several advantages to switch to this release and I discovered a new one this week at work while upgrading workstations: we can have an animated boot splash. So I prefer focus on accessibility issues and beautifying than on setting tools. Cheers, JM. Website ======= There are several tasks on the list, among those I'd like to process the following ones. * Implement a work copy of our website, see https://gna.org/task/?7348 * Redesign the website download links and pages, see https://gna.org/task/?7368 * New logo, see https://gna.org/task/?7314 * Display country flags in site header, see https://gna.org/task/?7293 Wish list: * A translation portal for icon and sound files, see https://gna.org/task/?7369 * Provide Torrent seeds on doudoulinux.org, see https://gna.org/task/?7273 CDROM interface =============== * Have launch icons in Epiphany's homepage, see https://gna.org/task/?7278 * Find some good URL's for Epiphany bookmarks, see https://gna.org/task/?6946 * Play an audio message before switching computer off, see https://gna.org/task/?6944 * Low batteries should trigger an audio message, see https://gna.org/task/?7218 * Insert translated welcome texts in boot image, see https://gna.org/task/?7253 * Improve GDM screen lower part, see https://gna.org/task/?7061 * Add a graphical boot splash, see https://gna.org/task/index.php?7370 Wish list: * Replace GDM session menu with a Gtk application, see https://gna.org/task/?7219 * Play a nice music while booting, see https://gna.org/task/?7349 * Use large icons in lxlauncher tab titles, see https://gna.org/task/?7243 CDROM tools =============== * Add a nice GUI to set time, see https://gna.org/task/?7174 * A nice GUI for the hardware report tool, see https://gna.org/task/?7245 Wish list: * Users don't know if persistence is really active, see https://gna.org/task/?7189 * Activate NTP on installed systems, see https://gna.org/task/?7173 Bugs to be solved ================= Please review your tickets if you've posted some tickets! I'd like to close those that can be closed! * doudoulinux-sound should write ALSA conf to /etc/, see https://gna.org/bugs/?17713 * Childsplay: Letters cannot run, see https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?17774 * DDL installer report about successfull installation which is in fact failed, see https://gna.org/bugs/index.php?17374 * vkeyboard control via keyboard is not complete, see https://gna.org/bugs/?17097 * Website link to DDL Debian repository is dead for all languages but French, see https://gna.org/bugs/?17037 _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
