Grants:Project/Kiwix/User Experience/Timeline

This project is funded by a Project Grant

Timeline for Kiwix

The technical timeline can be found here: Grants:Project/Kiwix/User Experience/milestones

Monthly updates

January

Tech

Established list of tasks (see timeline);

Admin

Selected candidate for Qt coding of UI;
Received first grant installment
Got dumped by Qt hiree about 2 weeks later. Other candidates weren't available anymore -> we'll work through our senior dev but this will have a cost (and probably create some delays in delivery).

February

Tech

Fixed ZIM format and libzim 4GB cluster limit

Admin

Conducted interviews for UX designer

March

Tech

libzim and kiwixlib full support of iOS/macOS
Kiwix tools support of i586 architecture
Launch of a zimcheck tool
Speed up zimwriterfs; started attempt to speedup libzim
Wrote Kiwix lib documentation
Initial UX review completed [1][2]

Admin

Signed on UX designer.

April

Tech

First UI concepts and mockups
Started working on dekstop client interface
Completed code bootstrap and zim file downloader.

Admin

nada

May

Tech

Overall desktop design is ready/completed!
Updated/fixed zimwriterfs: that problem was holding us back to update large (>4Gb) zim files;
First nightly release of Kiwix desktop for Linux;
We have a serious issue with Qt/Windows compilation that will probably delay project completion by at least one month;

Admin

Submitted mid-point report.

June

Tech

The complete design plan is available on Github (you can get free sneak peaks);
We hit a major issue when trying to compile on Windows. At this stage it looks like this'll set us a few weeks back.

Admin

Nothing to report.

July

Tech

Finally could compile on Windows! \o/
Now manages search suggestions, tabs, print command, external links;
Windows app is signed;
Migrated Appveyor account.

Admin

Received second grant installment. Thank you.

Is your final report due but you need more time?

Extension request

New end date

31 October 2018.

Rationale

As indicated in June, we had a major issue compiling on Windows, where our main user base is. This set us back by a few weeks, and with vacations piling up we do not expect to be done before Fall.

Extension approved

Approving a new project end date of 31 October 2018.

--Marti (WMF) (talk) 18:09, 25 September 2018 (UTC)

The submission date for the final report and documentation of expenses will now be 30 November 2018, or 30 days after the project end date. If you need more time to submit the report or have other questions regarding reporting requirements, please post a request here and ping us. Best, Morgan Jue (WMF) (talk) 21:16, 25 September 2018 (UTC)