Hallo list

After lots of work, we are happy to reach another milestone in the
development of the next version of Pootle. This beta release now works
quite well on Django. We hope that Pootle admins and developers will try
this release and help us complete the last bits of work towards the
release of the next version. We dedicate this beta to Wynand who has
put in a huge amount of work in the last few months working mostly
alone on a lot of the harder Django stuff. Thanks Wynand!

The code base has seen some major cleanups and refactoring, and most
of the important functionality is now ported to Django. The changes
internally are vast, but there are also some user visible changes:
 - Brand new look (let us know what you think!)
 - Several improvements with alternative languages, including the
support for multiple alternative source languages (thanks again to
Julen)
 - The edit area now automatically resizes as needed


After this release a few outstanding issues will still receive
attention:

 - Reworking of the way files (stores) are handled
 - Using Django templates
 - Installation with the setup.py script (which is not working /
necessary for this beta)
 - Strategies for migration
 - Performance
 - Improve test coverage
 - Cleanup remaining legacy code
 - Translations

We are also very happy to announce that this version should work well
under apache using mod_python and mod_wsgi. I know for sure that many
people will be very happy about this.

This beta is probably not ready for production use, but several people
are already testing it, so it seems at least usable on some level. Be
aware that some major changes could still come before the release,
including changes in the DB schema / templates, etc.

Please note that Xapian does not work under apache due to some problems
with Xapian, so expect slow searching. Feedback on PyLucene under apache
will be appreciated.

You can download this beta from:
http://translate.sourceforge.net/snapshots/Pootle-1.3.0-beta2/

there is no need to install this beta in order to test it, you are
advised to run it directly from source.

Please check the README and
http://translate.sourceforge.net/wiki/pootle/installation_1.3beta
for instructions, and feel free to pop into IRC to ask any
questions that you might have. Some documentation might still need some
updates, so feel free to ask if anything is unclear. Things work
differently than the previous versions, so expect a few changes from
what you are used to with Pootle 1.2.

cheers,
Alaa

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