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On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:55, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> The purpose of the meeting was specifically not to discuss possible |
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> solutions for solving the "installer" problem. That is actually a |
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> subject of research. If someone else wants to step up as lead that is |
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> good for me. (if you want to do it, I'm ok and I suppose spyderous is |
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> too) |
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No, I'm little interested in creating an installer personally. The |
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question about spyderous's lead is not one about competence, but as the |
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log shows he doesn't seem to be hot on leading it either. I think that |
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in itself is already an indicator of how spyderous perceives this |
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project. If someone is really interested in doing this, well then he |
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should take lead. Spyderous seems to have taken it, because noone else |
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wanted to and the project was dubbed too important to be dropped or left |
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around for some later point. |
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> The main point was first on selecting lines of research and starting a |
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> group for actually performing the named research. Things have been going |
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> to slow with research and this is an attempt at getting things going. We |
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> need people to actually do things an getting results. |
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Yeah i know what the point was, but i hoped it would be more attainable |
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projects that would be chosen. |
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> To me an installer that is aimed at single-system installs is very much a |
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> desktop topic. It is concerned with the use as workstation. As such this |
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> is a desktop-research topic |
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'workstation' to me sounds like a business/school/etc (non-home) |
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environment, in such an environment it's usually not the best idea to |
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install per-machine by using some GUI (or not) installer. |
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I can see the use of an installer, that is not my point. It's about the |
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size of this project vs. the non-existent experience of this team as an |
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entity and that it touches much more aspects of Gentoo than the desktop |
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alone. Actually think it's not a desktop project as such, because |
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creating the actual UI is most likely the minor part of the work. |
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- foser |
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