Summary of 2004-02-29 Meeting
The first official IRC meeting of the Debian-Desktop project was
adjourned at 23:15 UTC in #debian-desktop on irc.debian.org.
The meeting was led by Madkiss.
There were at least 10 people present from the beginning of the meeting,
including:
Madkiss
joeljkp
pmfp
pelle
Matthew_I
Marco_Carvalho
nchip
formorer
lagc
Burnys
Matthew_I opened with an explanation of why he suggested the meeting in
the first place, and requested opinions of where he thought the project
should go.
Much of the meeting was spent discussing the future Swirl project[1],
which will be officially announced when the infrastructure is in place.
A timeline was decided upon, and the majority of people in attendence
agreed to continue work on the project.
Madkiss asked for opinions about what the Debian-Desktop Project should
work on to make Debian more desktop-friendly. The responses included:
- Better hardware detection
- A cleanup of Debian-Installer and debconf to make them more user-friendly
- Desktop-oriented documentation
- An auto-update applet
- NTFS/FAT resizing in the installer
- Automounting
- A graphical front-end to apt-get
- A graphical installer
- Reworked menus
Madkiss recommended (and the group agreed) that the Debian-Desktop
Project split into two internal subprojects: one that builds The Swirl,
and one that works on improving the software already in Debian.
Bluefuture engaged in a lengthy and detailed explanation of his proposal
for a new QA system[2].
joeljkp and Matthew_I agreed to take over maintenance of the
Debian-Desktop website[3].
The meeting adjourned at 23:00 UTC to a time to be determined later on.
The transcript will be available upon request[4].
[1]http://the-swirl.org
[2]http://lists.debian.org/debian-qa/2004/debian-qa-200402/msg00126.html
[3]http://debian.org/devel/debian-desktop
[4]jjk3@msstate.edu
Thanks for attending, everyone!
--
Joel Konkle-Parker
Webmaster [Ballsome.com]
E-mail [jjk3@msstate.edu]
Phone [662-518-1636]
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