Lampadas Bugzilla, status update, roadmap

[David Merrill <david lupercalia net>]

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The Gnome project, who will be adopting Lampadas for their documentation 
management, has agreed to host a Bugzilla database for the system. Many 
thanks to the Gnome hackers and bugmasters.

If you want to help Lampadas get ready for LDP and GDP launches, please 
enter bugs, vote for them, and add bugs for missing features you think 
are important. File them against project "lampadas".

You can test the current CVS code at http://test.lampadas.org. Be aware 
that while I am working on the system it sometimes goes down. Usually 
this is brief.

Bugs targetted for 1.0 will be given highest priority. So, if there's a 
feature you want added or a problem you want resolved before your 
rollout, please communicate that via the bug database.

My current estimate is feature freeze mid- or late-August, beta testing 
thereafter until stable. During beta we will finalize the English text, 
then freeze English strings and synchronize translations. At the end of 
August I hope to be ready for rollout. We'll be eating dogfood during 
beta, using Lampadas to manage its own translations.

First of September, we hope to begin rollout for the LDP and GDP. I will 
be personally involved in the rollout for both projects to help things go 
smoothly.

We also have need of translators. We have documents in the following 
languages in either GDP or LDP, but we have no Lampadas localization. 
This makes the documentation unaccessible to speakers of these languages. 
If you can provide translations of Lampadas text in one of these 
languages, please write me.

  DA, EL, EO, ES, EU, FI, HU, IT, JA,
  LV, NO, PT, RU, SH, SK, SL, TK

Thanks for all your support,

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David C. Merrill                         http://www.lupercalia.net
Linux Documentation Project                   david lupercalia net
Lead Developer                                 http://www.tldp.org

Software evolves. It isn't designed. The only question is how strictly you
_control_ the evolution, and how open you are to external sources of
mutations.
		-- Linus Torvalds, lmkl
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