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Re: Debian derivatives census: Inquisitor: website broken



On Tue, 2012-05-01 at 01:46 +0400, Mikhail Yakshin wrote:

> Alas, it's broken now and due to misfortunate set of events it will be
> only brought up on May, 2nd.
>...

Thanks for the info.

> Inquisitor project is still alive and there is some development activity:
> http://www.ohloh.net/p/inq
> 
> Albeit it's not as active as it was several years ago during active
> phase of development.

Good to hear.

> We don't really have any blogs, at least directly related to
> Inquisitor. Most members of the team do have blogs, but posts about
> Inquisitor in these blogs are rare.
> 
> There is a news feed at SourceForge:
> http://sourceforge.net/news/?group_id=100064 (also available as RSS) -
> but I don't know where I could add such a feature at census wiki.

It would be appropriate to add that link to the blogs field, but
unfortunately the SourceForge news feed pages don't seem to support RSS
autodiscovery, which the census scripts use to discover RSS feeds to add
to Planet Debian derivatives. You are the second derivative with this
issue so at some point I may implement some mechanism to allow
derivatives to manually add RSS feeds to their wiki pages.

http://planet.debian.org/deriv/

> We don't have a public apt repository - the general point of a project
> that it's a modular construction kit that everyone configures and
> assembled for a particular task, thus making a private repository with
> a couple of packages. Then this private repository + official Debian
> public repository is used to create a network-bootable or live CD/DVD
> system. I don't think that it's a viable idea to publish only one
> possible configuration (and thus binary build) of packages for
> Inquisitor in a public repository - generally, it would be (1) useless
> to general public, (2) probably would lead to someone installing it in
> a regular Debian desktop system, thus breaking it up seriously (as it
> reconfigures a *lot* of stuff during installation).

Sounds a bit like what the Debian Live project allows:

http://live.debian.net/

> We're kind of small project, so we don't have separate
> forums/maillists for users and developers => I've added "user forum",
> but I've added a link to that forum, albeit it's located at
> www.inquisitor.ru, which is unavailable right now.

Ok.

> Also, we don't use IRC, but we do use Jabber conferences, but, alas,
> there's no such field in census form.

Feel free to add fields to your census page that are not in the
template, for example the gNewSense page has a field for their
non-profit sponsor.

> So, that's the summary of what I've added:

Great, thanks.

> * Corporate sponsors

I've recently sent this mail to derivatives with corporate sponsors, you
may want to forward it to yours:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2012/03/msg00006.html

DebConf12 registration and CfP are open, so you might like to attend:

http://lists.debian.org/debian-derivatives/2012/04/msg00002.html

> Please give me any more clues / ask more questions if I can be of any
> help to add more.

You may want to sign up to the mailing list and join our IRC channel:

http://wiki.debian.org/DerivativesFrontDesk

-- 
bye,
pabs

http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise

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