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On Tuesday 20 January 2004 11:40, foser wrote:
> On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 09:54, Paul de Vrieze wrote:
> > The report of yesterday's desktop-research meeting can be found at:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/research/meeting_reports.xml#d
> >oc_chap2
>
> It lacks any rationale or even if what i proposed got discussed, which
> i think is of more immediate importance than any of both currently
> started subprojects. An IRC log would be helpful or even better a
> short summary.
>
> In the subprojects themselves i lack both rationale and any serious
> details of how this is going to be planned. To be honest the
> 'graphical installer' is proposed and started seven times seven times
> by now without any significant results. And i doubt it falls under the
> category 'desktop project', it's much broader and has actually little
> to do with working on a desktop. On a minor note, the lead is not even
> member of the research project (or not so on the project page) and
> that seems like a logical requirement to me. Is it even a good idea to
> have a DTL lead also lead a research project? DTL leads should be
> validating their personally lead projects in the end, that's not a
> good thing per se. Just member would probably be better.

The purpose of the meeting was specifically not to discuss possible 
solutions for solving the "installer" problem. That is actually a 
subject of research. If someone else wants to step up as lead that is 
good for me. (if you want to do it, I'm ok and I suppose spyderous is 
too)

The main point was first on selecting lines of research and starting a 
group for actually performing the named research. Things have been going 
to slow with research and this is an attempt at getting things going. We 
need people to actually do things an getting results.

To me an installer that is aimed at single-system installs is very much a 
desktop topic. It is concerned with the use as workstation. As such this 
is a desktop-research topic

Paul

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Paul de Vrieze
Gentoo Developer
Mail: pauldv@g.o
Homepage: http://www.devrieze.net
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