Hello! Our latest release is being much downloaded with around 10,000 pieces sold out within a week and few days. A direct consequence is that we have few new user requests and issue reports. As expected our project is still attracting new contributors and we're trying to do more to attract them :).
All the best, JM. PS: if you think that I forgot to mention an important news, feel free to answer this mail with your scoop! Team ===== * 3 people joined the team on Transifex this week: - Dots asked to start the Indonesian team - Hackey and Lemings asked to join the Latvian team They are already at work. Welcome to our project! Organization =========== * I recall that we have an IRC channel #doudoulinux on freenode. You can come and discuss any topic there instead of exchanging (private) mails. I'm mostly available on IRC between 20h and 22h GMT, sometimes between 13h and 15h GMT on Tuesday and Thursday. Elisa is more present during the western Europe day (depends on her professional activity of course). * Thanks to Xavier we now have a second download mirror in Belgium hosted by his company zoyo.be. The mirror is activated and downloads are now randomly shared out between the 3 servers. Our first mirror has already seen 5.5 TB downloaded. * We now have a full-featured torrent software on our server [1]. It reports that 77 CD's have been downloaded with its torrents [2], a good start. I invite you to share your own DDL CD's too as soon as your computer is on. This is a good way to offer bandwidth to the project :). * It seems our email accounts on doudoulinux.org are automatically blocked after several months nobody has logged in. As a result I figured out that Redmine was not able to send emails anymore. It's now been fixed. Don't hesitate to re-ask your password if you encounter the issue too, and feel free to ask me an email account if you've been dreaming of <[email protected]> for weeks ;). * Redmine: there are still tickets to be moved from our former project management software Gna [3]. Please move/close the tickets you're owning, unless their history is huge. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00894.html [2] http://download.doudoulinux.org/torrents/ [3] https://gna.org/projects/doudoulinux/ Translations ============ * Many translations submitted on Transifex for Danish (Joe), Latvian (Hackey, Lemings, Tranzistors), Malay (PureTech), Norwegian Bokmal (Ehtele), Portuguese BR (Flavio) and Portuguese PT (WilsonMint). * I updated the resource “website-download” on Transifex [1] since I added a torrent link in the download box newly added (see our homepages on Spip [2]). * Ehtele created a video [3] showing how easy translating DDL is :). We should host it on our website and create a dedicated page. Who to do this? [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00066.html [2] http://www.doudoulinux.org/spip/english/article/download [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00912.html CDROM ====== * No news. Graphics ======== * No news. Website ======= * I started to update our section “Translate DDL”. It was really needing such update since it was still referring to blocking bugs in Transifex and icon files needing to be manually translated. I removed many sentences, which makes it easier to read. Proofreading will be required, but I still have some work. * New French articles from Elisa and me: “Dépôts de paquets Debian”, “Télécharger les dailybuilds”. * New Malay articles from PureTech: “Pasukan dan penyumbang”, “Fail Terjemahan”, “Mereka berbicara tentangnya…” and “Logo DoudouLinux”. * New Russian articles from Sergey: “Скачать промежуточные версии”, “Репозитарий пакетов Debian”. * Salvatore and Flavio will work together on translating our website into both Portuguese [1]. * There are a lot of obsolete screenshots in our pages. Who would agree to update them on Spip? [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00893.html Communication ============= * Salvatore is still monitoring our DistroWatch ranking [1]. Our best score is 8th for the past 7 days ranking. We all want it to be our long term score :). * God's going to bless our project ;) [2] – still from Salvatore. * We now have several videos on Youtube posted by our anonymous promoters [3]. * Many websites talked about us during the past 7 days. [1] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00904.html [2] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00909.html [3] http://www.google.com/#q=doudoulinux&tbm=vid Support ======= * Constantin, our Greek translator, had troubles installing DDL on HD. It seems there is an encoding issue in the DDL tool, plus what the DDL installer really does was not clear enough (a Live install indeed, not a real install). * DDL doesn't boot on Pentium II since it ships a 686 kernel, not a 386 one. This may be annoying in some French schools [1]. I proposed to build a 386 image but did not get any answer yet. * In Mexico a teacher has difficulties to install DDL [2]. We may need our Spanish speaking contributors to contact him since he wrote his mail in Spanish. * A mail was sent in French on our forum list. The author had troubles with hardware detection but we don't know what version of DDL [3]. Discussion are on the go. * A French user is complaining about the clock which is not correct [4]. We still have no documentation page on this topic. [1] http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/415 [2] http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/416 [3] http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg00010.html [4] http://team.doudoulinux.org/issues/414 _______________________________________________ Doudoulinux-lang mailing list [email protected] https://mail.gna.org/listinfo/doudoulinux-lang
