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See also current [[Status and next steps]].
Things we plan to do in the future:


;Until end of 2009
* Implement templating system in [[libzim]]
* Finalizing ZIM file format
** ZIM file header:
*** <s>add Pointer to UrlPointerList (IndexPointerList will be named "TitlePointerList")</s>
*** <s>add Pointer to MimeTypeList</s>
** ZIM file structure:
*** <s>add UrlPointerList (article list ordered by URL)</s>
*** <s>add MimeTypeList to store MimeTypes in a zero-terminated list</s>
*** <s>make new integer compression (UTF-8 compression / ZInt compression)</s>
*** <s>break version number into major / minor number</s>
** Directory Entry:
*** <s>drop QUnicode on article titles</s>
*** <s>add URL</s>
*** <s>add rev_id int compressed</s> (not int compressed)
** Index Namespace (X)
*** <s>switch to new int compression</s>
 
;Later
* Layout Namespace (A / B)
** A - HTML body
** A - HTML body
** B - HTML header template
** B - HTML header
** reader sets flag when loading library if it wants to get HTML body or full layout using header template
** Two methods for reading either pure article text or combined pages
** MIME types used
*** html-body
*** html-layout
 
* Cluster compression
** <s>add LZMA compression</s> [[LZMA compression]]
** switch to compression streaming (only keep in memory what is really needed)


* Packaging
* Packaging
** Debian maintainer, contact by Tommi
** RPM
** RPM? - maybe openSuSE buildservice
** Static libzim binaries for macOS and Windows
** static binaries should be updated regularly
** Emmanuel adds Microsoft Visual Studio project file to SVN


* Category Namespace (U / V)
* Specify and Implement native category support
** U contains standard article text
** U contains standard article text
** V contains article pointers to articles within that category
** V contains article pointers to articles within that category
* [[Metadata]] Namespace (M) - these fields should be available as variables for layout templates
** W contains category pointers to categories of a given article
** "language" - ISO Code 639-3
** "creator"
** "date" - YYYYMMDD
** "description"
** "relation"
** "source" - URL
 
* ZIM export running on http://download.wikimedia.org/ '''This is not likely to happen until after the WMF fundraiser finishes which will be after 1/2010''' [[User:Tomasz|Tomasz]] 15:06, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
** work in MW API
** dumper has to add license name and link to the HTML content


* Updating
* Implement incremental features:
** tool to merge two ZIM files
** in [[libzim]]
** zimdiff binary
** zimpatch binary (with leazy mode - append)


;April 2009:
== See also ==
* [[Developer Meetings/2010-1]]
* [[Features]]

Latest revision as of 08:57, 11 March 2023

Things we plan to do in the future:

  • Implement templating system in libzim
    • A - HTML body
    • B - HTML header
    • Two methods for reading either pure article text or combined pages
  • Packaging
    • RPM
    • Static libzim binaries for macOS and Windows
  • Specify and Implement native category support
    • U contains standard article text
    • V contains article pointers to articles within that category
    • W contains category pointers to categories of a given article
  • Implement incremental features:
    • in libzim
    • zimdiff binary
    • zimpatch binary (with leazy mode - append)

See also

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