Developer Meetings/2009-1

Naming

• the project's name is "openZIM" which means we provide an open source implementation of the "Zeno IMproved" file format
• Decision: the file format will be renamed to "ZIM" to distinguish between the Zeno file format from Directmedia

Indexing and Searching

• several possibilities can be implemented:
  • internal search index
  • external search index
  • using an external library such as Zeno, Sphinx, Xapian...
  • Decision: will be postponed until next developers meeting which will focus on that

Encoding

• article texts in UTF-8
• URLs in UTF-8
• latin1 auto detection will be kept for backwards compatibility
• problem: sorting multibyte characters
  • there should be libraries which are able to sort multibyte characters, including them
  • dropping QUnicode library

Namespaces

Header / Templating

• discussion about how articles should be stored and viewed - some viewers need a dynamically created template (eg. web applications)
• the ZIM creator should be able to create his own templates, CSS, javascript files etc.
• Decision: the ZIM creator stores a template file inside the "-" namespace
• the reader application can decide if it uses the template file to build the layout, but it is highly recommended to do so
• Decision: the template article name is stored in the header, as well as the main page article name

Infrastructure