Hello, Some news about next release, due to end of May (2 weeks left!). The technical work progress is good and all the new features of next release should be on CD during this week:
* new applications songwrite and stopmotion * improved boot/shutdown with graphics and music * better accessibility (menu of activities redesigned, first audio messages) * music included (MIDI files) plus a small jukebox based on the media player Totem * better hardware support (network, wifi, touchscreen and tablets) Maybe we should write a dedicated page to tell about what's new in this release or highlight these points in the release notes. I realized that I never talked about translations before. What was true for the previous release is still true for the next one: uploading ISO/IMG files is taking tens of hours. I then need translators to provide translations at least for the 27th May, and even few days before if you want to be able to test it before it goes officially online. But the technical/translation work doesn't make all DDL and we are rather late on documentation and graphics. So the project is needing you to do the following jobs: * write documentation about our new applications (http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/54 and http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/144) * update documentation (http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/146) * provide traditional children songs * draw a graphical boot/shutdown splash image (http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/65) * test CD and USB key You can browse a detailed report/planning of our activities online on our project management software: * list of tasks → http://team.doudoulinux.org/projects/doudoulinux-cd/versions/1 * Gantt chart → http://team.doudoulinux.org/projects/doudoulinux-cd/issues/gantt Don't forget to uncheck the status of tickets then update the view if you want to list closed tickets too! There are still tickets on Gna that require work for next release if possible: * New logo, see https://gna.org/task/?7314 * Display country flags in site header, see https://gna.org/task/?7293 I'm not sure we'll have enough logo proposals in the OCAL contest to be ready to choose for the end of the month. Tell me what's your opinion though. Finally I put after the end of this message the list of tickets that have been postponed to the release after. Thank you for your involvement. Cheers, JM. ============================================= Postponed tickets. * Replace GDM session menu with a Gtk application, see https://gna.org/task/?7219 * Use large icons in lxlauncher tab titles, see https://gna.org/task/?7243 * 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 * 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 * 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 _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
