This week has been much slower with the image builder project.  I've
wrinkled out several issues and generally worked on usability and
other frontend aspects.  The backend (and frontend) currently handle
building a complete tar/gz image and letting the user download it with
the user's choice of profile (as in /etc/make.profile), based on
available binpkgs repositories, the base system (emerge system), and
an arbitrary set of packages (selected from a list derived from the
Packages file of the binpkgs repo).  The frontend now also supports
new user registration.  The front end offers fairly complete logs of
the build process, including converting ANSI colors to HTML
equivalents so logs can be colored too.

Things to do next week (and beyond):
-Invitation-only user registration system
-Management of disk space, meaning a good system that can be called by
cron to delete old images, logs, etc. that can be assumed to be no
longer needed.
-Work towards finalizing the database structure
-Addition of new options/features in frontend and implementation of
said options in backend
-Making the frontend more user-friendly

I'd also like to ask for input from anyone interested, especially
anyone who thinks they will use this system once it's public, so I
created a forum topic [1] for suggestions, requests, etc.

Anyone who would be interested in testing out this system if/when a
testing server becomes available, please also email me off-list.

Eitan

[1] http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-p-5830406.html