On Wed, Jun 18, 2014 at 8:00 PM, Franky Almonte wrote: > You said before that it will be quicker to create a derivate. Why? How > long it takes to build a minimal version or a standard version (with a > desktop)?
It depends on how you do it, some derivatives in the past did one install, modified the install and duplicated that. That is of course very quick and extremely hacky and unsustainable. The other thing is uploads to Debian are required to comply with Debian policies, which can be quite strict so it might be quicker to make packages not destined for Debian. In addition there is currently a bit of a disconnect between blends and the Debian installer and CD images (inc liveCDs); there are no no specialised blends (as opposed to the generic desktop ones) that are directly installable from the Debian installer UI or have CD/DVD images available on the Debian website. Resolving that would be quite a bit of work but would probably solve it for all blends. > Based on your knowledge/experience, how long (approximation) it > takes to build those metapackages for artwork, configuration and package > selection? I'm not familiar with the blends framework by Andreas but from what I understand the metapackage stuff there is quite automated. The artwork and configuration packages are normal packages rather than metapackages. The configuration packages would be very little work (maybe 10 minutes) once you had the config snippets you need and as long as the software you are configuring supports drop-in config snippets. The artwork packages might be slightly more but Debian packaging is well automated these days if you have a Makefile with the standard targets. Most of the work is not packaging but the stuff behind the packages; selecting what to install, drawing the artwork and deciding what configuration snippets to add. > Although we have good connectivity in the country, we would like to have > some degree of independence to work on the development process. Using alioth will help there I think. > That's fine. We would to contribute with a local Debian mirror. Excellent, some info about that here: https://www.debian.org/mirror/ftpmirror https://www.debian.org/mirror/submit https://www.debian.org/mirror/official > I just sent and email to Javier about the Census. Thanks :) > The assembly is a separate project. But we will try to review the > hardware. I see, I think review will definitely help with the experience of your users. > Don't know yet. It will be and open competition to recruit developers, > since these are public resources. I'm a Debian user since Sarge, but > with some little interruptions in the middle. I see. I assume the developers will be paid rather than volunteer; if so please post to the debian-jobs list and or contact nearby consultants when the time comes: https://lists.debian.org/debian-jobs/ https://www.debian.org/consultants/ -- bye, pabs http://wiki.debian.org/PaulWise -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: https://lists.debian.org/CAKTje6HH-fQWVpnDLti=XgYkFxO5myJCFAE=jy8tdtoxx9e...@mail.gmail.com
