[Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx
It's nice to see a plan of basic infrastructure work
and example scripts up to 0.4.0, but that's a mysterious and large jump
to 1.0.0 when you project FBX will be "usable by non-technical users".
Regardless of time frame, I predict when something like 0.4.0 is reached
Zeno's paradox will appear to happen: FBX will then be almost halfway
to the goal of "usable by non-technical users", but with another
mysterious jump between version 1 and the closest version number
not exceeding it.
-Jonathan
----- Original Message -----
> From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
> To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc:
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx
>
> Quoting JOSEFSSON Erik (2012-11-14 18:55:19)
>> Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to
>> get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx?
>
> FreedomBox (arguably) exist today in version 0.1 (and some additional
> progress beyond that), but not in a long-term maintainable form which
> (arguably) means it must be fully and officially part of Debian.
>
> A crude answer to your question: It takes a single (rather large) step
> of someone converting freedom-maker into a Debian package.
>
> Here's a transcript from my crystal ball (listed like Changelog of an
> actual package, timestamps and author deliberately left out):
>
>
> freedombox 1.0.0
>
> ? * First user-friendly release: "Boring Box".
> ? ? + Provides Jabber service.
> ? ? + Provides privacy-oriented web proxy service.
> ? ? + Usable by non-technical users.
> ? ? + Works on DHCP-administered and IPv4ALL networks
> ? ? ? (without voodoo: does *not* penetrate firewalls).
>
> freedombox 0.4.0
>
> ? * Depend on recent privoxy. Enable paranoid setting by
> ? ? default. Thanks to James Vasile for his work on getting
> ? ? his forked package merged upstream to official Debian
> ? ? package.
> ? * Fix adapt and reload ejabberd when network changes
> ? ? (e.g. switching between IPv4ALL and DHCP-provided ip).
>
> freedombox 0.3.3
>
> ? * More bugfixes to idempotency of postinst script.
>
> freedombox 0.3.2
>
> ? * Fix install routines when reinstalling package while
> ? ? config files exist (e.g. from older non-purged install).
>
> freedombox 0.3.1
>
> ? * Setup Jabber service during install, Thanks to ejabberd
> ? ? and avahi package maintainers for improving flexibility
> ? ? of (re)configuring those package automatically.
> ? * Simplify jabber example script to only setup web client.
>
> freedombox 0.3.0
>
> ? * Depend on avahi-autoipd, ejabberd, apache2 and jwchat.
> ? * Add example script to setup Jabber service reachable
> ? ? over Multicast DNS, both from native XMPP clients and
> ? ? included web client.
>
> freedombox 0.2.1
>
> ? * Bugfix release for included example scripts.
>
> freedombox 0.2.0
>
> ? * Initial official packaging release.
> ? * Uses Semantic Versioning (see <http://semver.org/>)
> ? ? (minor version 1 skipped to avoid confusion with prior
> ? ? Foundation non-package release).
> ? * Virtually empty package: intended to depend on needed code
> ? ? projects, but these first need to be packaged themselves.
> ? * Includes example scripts for the local user to manually
> ? ? download and compile those code projects not yet packaged.
>
>
>
> Hopefully there will be even more releases before 1.0.0 to include more
> of the work currently shipped by Nick Daly's non-package snapshots.
>
> Then after the 1.0.0 release there will probably be parallel work on
> both bugfix 1.0.x releases and feature-extending 1.x.y releases,
> eventually stabilizing, and in a(n even brighter) future the 2.0.0
> release which might offer the first non-boring stuff...
>
>
> - Jonas
>
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