Bug#465369: GoLearn
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Hi again, Miriam,
[reorganizing quoted text a bit...]
On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 04:56:14PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>2008/2/12, Jonas Smedegaard <dr@jones.dk>:
>> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 03:12:56PM +0100, Miriam Ruiz wrote:
>> >I saw that you're thinking about forking GoPlay!... wouldn't you
>> >think it would be best to join our efforts in a more flexible
>> >program that could handle both sets of packages, and probably be
>> >extensible to others?
>> I am, an that was my first thought too digging into this. But...
>I'm a bit concerned that if people start to fork the whole project for
>different kind of searches, it can get a bit out of hand. In fact, it
>might turn into a nightmare for the security team. If the idea is to
>have different GoSomething's available, maybe we could just take the
>common part into a shared library and a common base package, or maybe
>implement a tiny scripting thingie over GoPlay! to personalize it on
>different kind of stuff.
I agree.
...but also, we'd really want to have a usable tool widely available for
educational use _now_ rather than whenever you/we succeed in refactoring
the code for a more general scope.
So I propose the following:
1. Add GoLearn! to Debian
2. Refactor GoPlay into a skinnable GoGo! tool
4. Add GoGo! to Debian, replacing both GoPlay! and GoLearn!
How does that sound to you?
>> I am a scripter and a packager, not a real true coder. So I fear that
>> I would be of little help in actually coding stuff - unless you'd be
>> willing to shift from C++ to Perl as "programming" language :-)
>Don't worry about not being able to code, I'm more concerned about the
>overall design of the program right now. Coding itself, once you have
>clear ideas about what you want to do, is quite straightforward.
I am willing to try. I worry about the amount of time it could consume
for me. My brain seems to stall on new challenges sometimes... But
let's give it a try. :-)
How do you work together? I mean, how do _we_ work together? :-)
Personally I am used to CVS and Subversion, but have recently grown fond
of Git. And for packaging I am a big fan of CDBS (but aware of the
recent concerns raised by Joey Hess recently in a blog entry - and have
ideas for even better tools in the long run, but that's probably a
separate discussion).
- Jonas
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