It may be a good idea, before cooker opens again, to take these days to have some brainstorm.
May you give your opinion on :
- What was wrong in 9.2 development process?
- We though a bit late in the 9.2 developement process to split cooker ml, we should do it now.
How about creating newsgroups instead? It seems that the mandrake mailing list is so high volume list that sometimes it is really hard to follow the discussion in the list.
I for example needed to create own mail server to my home in order to follow mandrake mailing list. Earlier I had always problems with the quota because the list is so active. I believe that the requirement to subscripe restrict the amount of users who want to participate to the discussion. (or report from the problems)
- What could we do to improve 9.3/10.0 development.
More small but important details and cleaning for the configuration tools: Drakconnect - Problems with the PCMCIA cards with drakconnect should be fixed
Firewall Configuration
a) One should be able to configure firewall for all ethernet cards he has in the system separately. (I for example would allos only ssh and apache to eth0 connected to internet but I would not want to restrict traffic going on via eth1 to intranet in my home)
b) More predefined values to firewall configuration. There should be separate items normal web server (port 80), secure web server (81), mail server (143), secure mail server (993). Actually users should be able to add ports with tittles to the list easily. (I know that you can specify ports via advanced label but it would be helpful if one could also add tittle for each port opened)
c) in addition to the names like ftp, samba, etc the real port opened should be shown. Something like ssh (23), ftp (21), sftp (22)...
Sound driver configuration - Possibility select whether to use sound card drivers from ALSA or OSS
Monitor configuration
- I would like to see my current horizontal frame rate in the monitor configuration (maybe the functionality in the monitor configuration and xfdrake could be put into single tool)
Mount point configuration
- I would like to define somehow that only users belonging to group "mount users" could have access to my mounted NTFS partitions
CD Burner
- Why everybody owning CD burner must go manually to edit kernel booting parameters to add lines like "hdc=ide-scsi hdd=ide-scsi". Either add this as a default for every cd device or help to make cd burning softwares to work without these definitions well.
PDA syncronization tools
- I have menu item for PDA connectivity but I bet that it wont be able to connect to my SonyEricsson P800. (or synchronize calendar email, and contacts with a KKroupware available in the contrips...) Ie much more work is needed with a this kind of tools.
- What should we do to improve the Wiki.
Add links to mandrake menus pointing to Wiki pages. So that users could find them easily.
- Should we have cooker snapshot ISOs?
It would be nice to have one or two snapshots before jumping to beta wagon. Not neccessary, but mkcd tool should be fixed.
- What could we do, as a community, to increase the acceptance of mandrakelinux?
- Be at least as open as you are right now.
- How to have more contributors?
- You could more cleanly add somewhere the list of tools you would like to see in the mandrake but you do not have yourself power to maintain. Maybe you could have mandrake configuration tools in a similar kind of site than how tigris org has managed tools. ( http://www.tigris.org/)
Ie there could be own projects for the drakconnect, cd burning software, etc.
And anything related to the mandrakelinux distro.
- I really would like to be able to byu Mandrake Linux t-shirts :-) - Could you start selling Linux games via net?
Mika
