Roadmap
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See also current Status and next steps.
- Until end of 2009
- Finalizing ZIM file format
- ZIM file header:
- add Pointer to UrlPointerList (IndexPointerList will be named "TitlePointerList") - DONE
- add Pointer to MimeTypeList - DONE
- ZIM file structure:
- add UrlPointerList (article list ordered by URL) - DONE
- add MimeTypeList to store MimeTypes in a zero-terminated list - DONE
- make new integer compression (UTF-8 compression / ZInt compression) - DONE
- break version number into major / minor number
- Directory Entry:
- drop QUnicode on article titles - DONE
- add URL - DONE
- add rev_id int compressed - DONE (not int compressed)
- Index Namespace (X)
- switch to new int compression - DONE
- ZIM file header:
- Later
- Layout Namespace (A / B)
- A - HTML body
- B - HTML header template
- reader sets flag when loading library if it wants to get HTML body or full layout using header template
- MIME types used
- html-body
- html-layout
- Cluster compression
- add LZMA compression - DONE LZMA compression
- switch to compression streaming (only keep in memory what is really needed)
- Packaging
- Debian maintainer, contact by Tommi
- RPM? - maybe openSuSE buildservice
- static binaries should be updated regularly
- Emmanuel adds Microsoft Visual Studio project file to SVN
- Category Namespace (U / V)
- U contains standard article text
- V contains article pointers to articles within that category
- Metadata Namespace (M) - these fields should be available as variables for layout templates
- "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 Tomasz 15:06, 22 November 2009 (UTC)
- work in MW API
- dumper has to add license name and link to the HTML content
- Updating
- tool to merge two ZIM files
- April 2009