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I believe Donnie (spyderous) forwarded an email from me to this list |
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about my laptop hard drive "issues" a few days ago. This has hindered |
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much of my ability to communicate with the other devs or code in any |
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meaningful fashion, as of late. It would seems as if I'm going to have |
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to crawl all over HP to get them to do anything, so it will be some time |
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before I'm 100% back in the game. |
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Current activity on the installer is a little thin. For those that do |
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not know, we have only 2 primary coders other than myself - Nathaniel |
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McCallum and Scott Myron. Nathaniel has recently been cramming with |
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school work and starting a new job (congrats again, btw). Scott has also |
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been tied up with university work. Some of our other regular |
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contributors like Corey Shields are very likely waiting for the rest of |
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us to get our stuff together. ;) |
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Last we left off, the partitioning code was giving Nathaniel a headache. |
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Since we're still way-super-pre-alpha, we decided to TEMPORARILY forgo |
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some of the arch compatibility and abstraction code. This should help us |
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to get a functioning model out the door sooner and garner interest from |
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other devs to lend a (coding) hand. |
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Scott has been rounding out some of the exist configuration code, xml |
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parsing, deployment ideas, and utility methods. |
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I finished a working object notification system that should allow a |
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network of objects to register to be "observers" of events of interest. |
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Work on a "distributed" version of the notification center which will |
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allow processes to communication across a network has started, but was |
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halted due to HP's fabulous ventilation design of the Pavilion notebooks. :P |
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A number of people have expressed interested in either contributing a |
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bit of code or becoming full on Gentoo devs to work on the installer. |
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This is a good thing. We are interested in bringing on new devs to work |
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on this project, but I just haven't gotten a chance to speak to any of |
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them yet (you know who you are - I haven't forgotten you!). |
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I was in the process of putting together a completed TODO list and |
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status with a time line, but that's all gone now (::waves to HP::). Like |
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an idiot, I hadn't backed up recently so I have no one to blame but |
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myself (::glares at HP anyway::). I will put these documents back |
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together as soon as possible and I apologize for the delay. |
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I invite questions, contributions, flames, and other such things, as |
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always. Feel free to email me or catch me on IRC (I'm trying to remain |
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available but it's not easy) if you want to chat. I ask that everyone be |
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patient, though; I'm quite busy at work and down my main box. |
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All the best to those in Gentoo installer land. |
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Eric Sammer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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