Momonga Project First Anniversary

As of the first of July 2003, the Momonga Project is exactly one year old

Exactly one year ago, on the first day of July 2002, we gathered, formed and organized as the Momonga Project, aiming to create a Linux distribution that is "Friendly to Me".

Upon the dissolution of the Kondara Project, we began developing by succeeding to the Kondara Project's open cvs repository. At the beginning, we expected we could produce our first release version in several months time, however, a one full year has passed before any release mainly due to a shortage of time resource in our project.

Meanwhile we started to hear voices calling for a release of the Momonga Linux distribution from various organizations and individuals. We too believe it is about the time to finally release version 1.0.

From now on, we are intending to proceed according to the following roadmap.

Roadmap

July 2003

Update glibc to 2.3
Update gcc to 3.3
Organizing License related issues for expression and description

August 2003

Stabilize the release version branch in the project cvs repository - No further major updates in the branch unless critical
Collection of minor items like desktop icons and background pictures
Alpha test

September 2003

Beta test
Final integrity check

October 2003

Release !

Developers and contributers are wanted!

We are seeking for anyone who can work together in our project, especially now to speed up the project progress for the release.

Package Maintainers

To write spec files for required packages
To maintain spec files for existing packages

Document writers

To write documents like installation guides, various FAQ's, application user manuals, etc.

Quality Controllers

To check and confirm quality of packages suitable for daily use and
To report problems, if any, to responsible project member, or
To fix the problem by himself/herself

For the above positions, please apply after reading the information in "Participating in Momonga Project".

Mirror sites: From our beta test release we would like to hear from any interested party to mirror the Momonga Linux distribution. Please read " Momonga Linux FTP Servers" for details and contact us.
Testers: We would like anybody who is interested in testing our (pre) release version to report errors and problems to our development mailing list. Please read Momonga Devel ML and join in the mailing list.

Foreseen versions of main software

kernel	2.4.21
glibc	2.3.2(No NPTL)
gcc	3.3
rpm	4.0.4
ruby	1.6.8
XFree86	4.3.0.1
gnome-desktop	2.3.3
KDE	3.1.2
mozilla	1.3.1