Previously Raphael Hertzog wrote: > That's why I would like to know who will support some projects, and who will > do the necessary so that they'll become reality. Here are the projects > I would like to see achieved : Please note that a DPL can't make something happen. What he can do is try to focus people on issues and channel efforts. > - Ben Collins idea : no unstable fork before deep-freeze I can see both advantages and disadvantages to this problem. A while ago there was a discussion on a new setup for our archive. And just now there is again talk of changing the current list of sections in the archive. We also just had a good discussion on tagging packages which have export problems. It might be a better idea to start with a new discussion on the setup of our archives and take this along. > - creation of a "Bug Group" who could manage the Bug Database without fearing > a maintainer blame. A couple of months ago there was a request (if I remember it was from Ian Jackson) for volunteers to help maintain the bugtracking system. He was looking for volunteers in three groups: people to manage the BTS code, people to manage the data in the BTS and a third group that I can't remember just now. Apparently there was a a real lack of response on that request, since I have never seen a reaction on it. This group should manage "important" and "critical" > This group could also organize "bug's party" on IRC in order to > clean up the BTS of a specific package (like it has already be done > for ppp). Look for a post on debian-devel with the title `BugSquashing Party' > - APT beeing finished :-) A new version of the apt code (apt3) is in CVS and is already being used by a couple of people. It fixes most (of not all) outstanding bugs, and adds things like multi-CD support. Work gnome-apt seems to be coming along as well. > - Configuration management with internationalization support (I didn't speak > of that but I wanted to...) We just decided to move to the debian-admintool list for that. I'm waiting a while for everyone who wants to participate to be subscribed to that list and then we'll continue with that. > - Simplification of the installation (enhanced boot disks)... This is related to the previous point as well, since that should add the support for less and non-interactive installation. mkhybrid seems to be working now as well, and it would be nice if we could use that on the new Debian CD's to offer multiple kernels on a single CD (normal, fast, laptop, SMP). Another thing that would be nice to do is special installation methods for things like clusters and labrooms. A couple of people have already done this, but so far noone has made a package of that (it is very hard to package as well). > The one who will support all this will have my vote :-) And "support" does > mean : do the right things in order to achieve them... ;-) Of course all this needs to be done by developers, not by the DPL. Wichert. -- ============================================================================== This combination of bytes forms a message written to you by Wichert Akkerman. E-Mail: wakkerma@cs.leidenuniv.nl WWW: http://www.wi.leidenuniv.nl/~wichert/
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