Update of zstd roadmap

Author: erikjee

content/initiatives/data-compression.md

@@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ In June 2025 we released a new version of the **bzip2** crate, see [the bzip2 pr
 
 ### What's Next
 
-Development of **zstd** began in July 2025, with the first release of the decoder planned for February 2026. We're currently seeking funding to complete work on the encoder side, see [zstd](/projects/zstd/). 
+Development of **zstd** began in July 2025, with the first release of the decoder planned for February 2026. We're currently seeking funding to complete work on the encoder side, see [zstd-rs](/projects/zstd-rs/). 
 
 Meanwhile, work on zlib-rs and bzip2-rs continues to improve the implementations, enhance performance, and expand adoption.
 

content/initiatives/workplans/workplan-zstd-rs.md

@@ -11,26 +11,52 @@ backTitle = "Back to project: Zstd-rs"
 
 Work on zstd started in July 2025. The first milestone is the decompression portion of the library.
 
-Now the decompression is in development, we're seeking funding for the encoder. Please [get in touch with us](/support), if you are interested in financially supporting the development of memory-safe zstd.
+Now the decompression is in development, we're seeking funding for the *encoder*. Please [get in touch with us](/support), if you are interested in financially supporting the development of memory-safe zstd.
 
 ### In progress milestones
 
-**Milestone 1: Decoder**
+**Milestone 1: Decoder implementation**
 
-- **decoder** Publish a crate to crates.io that contains the C interface, and a C dynamic library for zstd decompression that is API-compatible. 
+This milestone adds API-compatible zstd decompression functionality.
+
+- Initial c2rust translation
+- Improving the code quality of the translated code
+- Testing & fuzzing
+- Deliverable: experimental release of the zstd-rs library (libzstd-rs-sys)
+
+This work is supported by [Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/) and [Astral](https://astral.sh/).
 
 **Milestone 2: dictBuilder**
 
 - Implementation of the dictBuilder feature
 - Deliverable: release of the zstd-rs library (libzstd-rs-sys) including the dictBuilder feature
 
+This work is supported by [Sovereign Tech Agency](https://sovereign.tech).
+
+**Milestone 3: Publish decoder**
+
+- Improving the performance of the translated code
+- Documentation
+- Deliverable: Release of the zstd-rs library (libzstd-rs-sys)
+- Deliverable: Publish the crate containing the C interface and a C dynamic library that is API-compatible
+
+This work is supported by [NLnet Foundation](https://nlnet.nl).
+
 ---
 
 ### Future work
 
-**Milestone 3: Encoder**
+**Milestone 4: Encoder implementation**
+
+This milestone adds API-compatible zstd compression.
+
+- Improving the code quality of the translated code
+- Improving the performance of the translated code
+- Testing & fuzzing
+- Audit
+- Create release and publish crates
 
-- **encoder** Adds API-compatible zstd compression.
+Please contact us if you are interested in supporting this milestone; see [trifectatech.org/support](https://trifectatech.org/support/). 
 
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content/projects/zstd-rs.md

@@ -15,7 +15,9 @@ links = [
 funders = [
     "chainguard", 
     "astral",
-    "sta"
+    "sta",
+    "nlnetfoundation",
+    "ngi-zero-core"
 ]
 
 supporters = [
@@ -27,20 +29,22 @@ blogposts = [
 
 Zstandard is a modern successor to zlib, providing better compression faster. Zstd-rs is *in developement*; it aims to provide excellent performance while introducing memory safety.
 
-The project will provide a dynamic library that is a drop-in replacement for C/C++ counterparts, but has compiled memory-safe Rust code inside. For the high level goals, see our [Data compression initiative](/initiatives/data-compression/).
+The project will provide a dynamic library that is a drop-in replacement for C/C++ counterparts, but has compiled memory-safe Rust code inside. 
 
-Zstd-rs is part of our [Data compression initiative](/initiatives/data-compression/). 
+For the high level goals of our data compression projects, see our [Data compression initiative](/initiatives/data-compression/).
 
 ### About
 
-Development of zstd-rs began in July 2025, with the first release of the decoder planned for February 2026.
+Development of zstd-rs began in July 2025, with the first release of the decoder planned for March 2026.
+
+We thank [Chainguard](https://www.chainguard.dev/), [Astral](https://astral.sh/), [Sovereign Tech Agency](https://sovereign.tech) and [NLnet Foundation](https://nlnet.nl) for their support.
 
 ### Roadmap
 
 - 2025 Q3: start of decoder implementation
-- 2025 Q4: dictBuilder feature
+- 2025 Q4: implementation of dictBuilder feature
 - 2026 Q1: release of decoder
-- 2026 Q2: release of encoder (pending funding)
+- 2026 Q2: start of encoder implementation (*pending funding*)
 
 For details see [the zstd-rs workplan](/initiatives/workplans/zstd-rs/).