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On Sun, 2008-03-30 at 18:37 +0200, Vit Vomacko wrote: |
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> My name is Víťa Vomáčko (maybe some letters are strange to you:), 21 |
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> years old, from Czech Republic |
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Nice. I'm from germany, but i have some friends in Czech Republic. I've |
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been on a trip to Prag, Brno and Vsetin last month. |
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> I have some ideas, based on José Alberto's, Philipp Riegger's and mine, |
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> as a newcomer (may not be suitable for project, may be too long term ). |
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> So please tell me what seems to be good and what is totally rubbish:D |
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> * bug fixing (less bug, will report; cdrtools collision, a lot of |
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> bugs opened) |
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This is great. I've been looking for a new bug fixing release for a long |
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long time. |
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> * wrap,router board enhancements ( i will have direct access to it) |
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This sounds great. I'm looking forward to hearing from you, i've always |
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wanted one of these toys! |
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> * glsa checks for your overlay (to be sure, that there is now |
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> critical security bug in your gnap devices) |
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> * overall upgrade of gnap core (new snapshot, gnap core..., move to |
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> gnap 2.1 release and continue) |
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> * interactive setup ( to be even easier to use for beginners, |
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> answers some questions and build what is needed) |
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I was always thinking about stabilizing the non-interactive part more, |
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but i'm looking forward to hearing your ideas. |
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> * CLI (inspired by vyatta project, would be nice to share code, |
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> provides great management ability) and web interface for basic |
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> changes (networking, firmware upgrades) (definitely try to use |
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> and edit code from other similar projects, use existing frameworks) |
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Do you know Mikroconf, which has been written for last years SoC? It's |
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not included anywhere, i think, but it sounds promising. Flexible |
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modular design,... |
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> * unionfs, support (I know that second guy would like to work on it) |
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With this you mean: / on squashfs, writable with unionfs and some local |
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storage? |
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> * live formware upgrade |
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Ca you elaborate on this? Are you talking about the whole image, only |
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applications on it, upgreade with or without downtime? |
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> * use new catalyst (don't know exactly problems connected to it) |
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Mostly, that portage has to be newer than the one in the current |
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seedstage shipped with gnap 2.0. |
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> * extensions installation made easier (maybe to have basic |
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> extensions available on the internet and automatically get them) |
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Prebuilt, or config files? Well, for routerboards and maybe x86 prebuilt |
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could make sense. |
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> * look at cross compiling ( I have some experience, so know that its |
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> difficult, so sth.that could be done in shorter terms) |
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That's what i did not have when i tried it last year. I would really |
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like to read your suggestions on this. |
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> * work on selected issues from Phillips's ideas ( |
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> http://archives.gentoo.org/gnap-dev/msg_01d6ef92bb66927018b4131462808391.xml |
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> ) |
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> Definitely I'd like to continue after SoC finishes. SO since tomorrow is |
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> deadline:( try to comment it asap, I will be very happy of your comments. |
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I was out for the weekend, so i could not comment sooner. And BaSS |
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(Jose) seems to be not that responsive at the moment. Anyway, i hope you |
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apply and i hope they take you and i hope, i can help you in any way. |
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>From what you wrote about your experience, this is unlikely. :-) |
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Philipp |
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