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A lot has happened in the last month; the full size of the diff is roughly 5500 lines. Martin has done some good work on main-menu and anna, fixing bugs and trying to stabilize them somewhat. Bdale just started work on ia64 and Bastian is doing some great work on s390, especially when it comes to weeding out i386-centrism in the code. cdebconf has gotten a stack module (which will make automated installs easier) and Denis Barbier has done some important i18n work. Last month's TODO list was: - - Porting. PowerPC, Alpha and S/390 are started. I'd like to see at least a couple arches more beginning to shape up before the next status report. Also, having some of the *BSD ports around would be nice. - - CD images need to be tested, the bugs fixed and we should be able to do more thorough testing of sarge - - i18n needs work, both in cdebconf and elsewhere. - - slang frontend? cdebconf has an slang frontend; it is untested. It also has a gtk frontend which is experimental. Getting it to work with, say, gtkfb would be cool. - - get the udebs missing in, like libc-udeb. - - replication (as in kickstart) - - evms support Well, porting is progressing well for s390, but has stalled for Alpha and PowerPC. Bdale started on ia64 last night. I've played around with getting it up and running on BSD, but no luck so far, busybox seems to be fairly Linux-centric. It is not a high priority, but if somebody picks it up, it would be good. Some testing of the CD images has started and we are now generating weekly jigdo images on gluck. Please download and test those. Report to -boot or -testing with your results. i18n is progressing nicely. Denis Barbier has done some nice work to get cdebconf ready for translated templates. There are still some work to be done with regard to how cdebconf should know what language to use. frontends. Apart from the forementioned i18n fixing, no progress on slang or gtk frontends has been made. This is not critical for the alpha release, but it would be good to get those into shape in the not-too-distant future. some more udebs have entered the archive, like libc-udeb. We do most likely want a few more udebs, like a slang-udeb for the slang frontend. Nothing critical, yet. replication/kickstart has gotten some work done. Or rather, I've implemented a stack module for cdebconf which does, more or less, the same as the stack module for debconf. The plan is then to add various read-only database backends for cdebconf which could be stacked underneath a writable database backend. More to come. EVMS support has been added.. I played with it a little, but it was broken because it was compiled with readline support, while no readline libraries were in the archive. I've just played around with it a bit more, and it looks like it needs some more work before it will work properly, but EVMS sure looks promising. So, what happens now? I'd like to pull all the bits together so we have something that can be labeled alpha, hopefully before the end of the month. Before that happens, we need to clean up: - - menu ordering - - unbreak mkfs, add mkswap - - fix mounting - - add a tool which creates an install log and (optionally) mails it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Those are pretty short-term goals and shouldn't take very long to fix. I'm hoping to get out a full-featured (as in all features needed for actually performing various installations, not as in �having all bells and whistles�) beta before the end of the year. For that to happen we need to fix the following bugs/missing features: - - anna must support Release files. - - main-menu must handle multiple provides somehow. - - CDs needs to be tested a lot more. - - cdebconf must have at least a slang frontend as well. gtkfb/qtopia would be a nice bonus, but not needed. - - automated installs. We need some way both to replicate installs and some way to do mass installs with only a few items differing for each host. - - ports. I refuse to label d-i beta before we have at least a few more arches working. If you want to help out, please take a look at http://raw.no/d-i/getting_started.html and especially the TODO list at http://url.raw.no/?101 As always, feedback, flames, comments and ideas are appreciated. - -- Tollef Fog Heen ,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Please see my GPG key at http://www.opera.com/~tfheen/gpgkey.asc iD8DBQE93kfzQSseMYF6mWoRAprAAJwKn181faIzyiVoZbEbm6Lcd+0oEwCg1IfG JGP1z9BwouvQU/D+QToaC9k= =RjsR -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
