Hello there! I'd like to share some information about what we're going to publish during the upcoming weeks and months. As you should know we're trying to publish a new version of DDL every 3 months. However things have a bit changed since we've published our first official release Gondwana: we now have 2 branches, one for the official version (low activity), and one for the development version (more activity, since we're moving from Debian Lenny to Squeeze). Moreover we started to look at porting DDL to ARM processors. So shortly we have to deal with:
* Gondwana update 1, based on Lenny * 2011-08, based on Squeeze * DDL on ARM, based on Squeeze/Wheezy The sad news is, surprisingly, that we haven't enough contributors to do all what we'd like to do within a short period! I've also been very occupied with communicating around about our project during the past few weeks, more than expected, which slowed down development. To me it is really important to be on ARM and it is also important, though a bit less, to update Gondwana. I don't mean that I want to delay our move to Squeeze – especially because of the ARM port, but it'll be difficult to provide a polished enough version 2011-08 by the end of the month. Therefore, as we already have a quite large set of (well working) CD's thanks to Gondwana, as we're going to augment this CD set thanks to all our new contributors who are providing new languages, I think that it is not so urgent to have 2011-08 fit a single CD. It is not so important either to have it in 20 or even 10 languages. And it is not important to have it perfectly translated by the end of the month either (which is quite impossible anyway!). Finally I'm then going to provide for the end of the month a new release 2011-08 which will: * be a small DVD (~ 850MB) * be available in few languages (say our top downloads English, French, Russian, Spanish) * will not have a definitive set of applications * will be less well translated than Gondwana * may show several remaining and annoying issues We'll then provide a Gondwana update for mid September, essentially a language update with minor bug fixes and eventually a new upstream version of Songwrite, since it should fix non-Latin language issues. The ARM version is not precisely planned yet, we'd like to have it work around October-November. As a result, I started to rearrange our tasks (see http://team.doudoulinux.org/projects/doudoulinux-cd/issues/gantt) and I'll continue to move tasks that I feel will not be completed or even started for 2011-08. I take this opportunity to announce that Filar, our Polish contributor, proposed months ago on the IRC channel to register our project for Google Code-In in October-November (see http://code.google.com/opensource/gci/2010-11/index.html). Although I don't know if it'll take place again this year, this would be a great opportunity for us to have many small or less small tasks achieved: translation, coding, drawing, music, etc. Don't hesitate to tell me if you're interested in any way by this event. We need people to follow the registration process (watching the “mailing list” http://groups.google.com/group/google-summer-of-code-announce) and propose activities, we need mentors to follow the eventual participants supposing our project is accepted, and why not participants if you're young enough to apply ;). Note that I'll post later a mail to summarize what kind of jobs are needed to make our project go forward, in case you feel like getting more involved ;). Cheers, JM. _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-dev
