Hi all,
[Please send replies to debian-derivatives and debian-www]
The website currently has a list of distributions derived from Debian[1]
that is a bit outdated, contains some inactive distributions and is
missing some distributions. I have been working on the derivatives
census[2] for the purpose of integrating[3] information about
derivatives into our infrastructure. Recently we got a query[4] about
how to add a distribution to [1] and I remembered that I had intended to
start a discussion about this.
I would like to suggest the following:
Move the page to a more prominent location, perhaps /derivatives?
The content of the page should be gathered from the census and include:
* Distribution names/logos
* Link to the derivatives census page for more info
* Distribution descriptions. It might be best to split these out
into sub-pages since there are a lot of derivatives; 42 in the
census and more that are not listed there.
Apply some criteria before a derivative can be listed, my suggestions:
* listed in the census
* still actively developed; responded to the annual ping at
minimum
* distributes source for all the FOSS software it distributes; I
plan to write some code to check for that the source and binary
package lists from the apt repositories match.
* distribution description has been reviewed by
debian-l10n-english. Also it would be best if the descriptions
didn't read like adverts.
Inactive distributions that are/were considered historically important
could be moved to a separate page, others simply removed.
Any thoughts?
1. http://www.debian.org/misc/children-distros
2. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Census
3. http://wiki.debian.org/Derivatives/Integration
--
bye,
pabs
http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise
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