Very good! I agree with you brother, specially in the idea to see with guys in Mint. For cooperation with Ojuba, I am OK, just one remark: there is many similarities between our project and them, but eatch project has its own perspective: in fact we have an Islamic vision, and them they have an Arabic vision.
I would add that an english version of WAQF Licence is ready as brother AlSadi said to me in chat, so I propose that Sabily will be under this licence inshalla. 2009/2/28 أحمد المحمودي <[email protected]> > السلام عليكم، > > On Sun, Feb 22, 2009 at 10:45:30AM +0200, fadi al-katout wrote: > > I just had an Idea regardless the version number we can name every > version > > with a name from the Islamic history (like ubuntu they name every version > > with an animal name)... > > > > names would be Cordoba, Taj-Mahal, Bader, Teebah, Ohod... etc > > what do you think? > ---end quoted text--- > > That idea is very nice indeed. Yet the matter of release codename & > version number has some complexity: > > 1] debian/changelog entry: it is in the format <package> <version> <distro > release name> > > In Debian <distro release name> is either experimental, unstable, > testing or stable. > > While in Ubuntu you got: hardy,intrepid,jaunty,... > > I prefer to follow the Ubuntu naming for debian/changelog since our > distro is Ubuntu based, the reason is not to break things that we > still do not know about. > > 2] A Ubuntu developer pointed to me that we should be modifying > /etc/lsb-release for our distro: > > 13:37 >asac< AnAnt: do you change /etc/lsb-release or is there some other > way to identify your distro at runtime? > 13:38 <AnAnt> no, I don't change /etc/lsb-release > 13:38 <AnAnt> except for the default artwork & installation, I don't think > there's another way to identify distro at runtime > 13:39 <asac> k > 13:39 <asac> i think you should adjust lsb-release and file bugs if that > causes issues > 13:40 <asac> you should be able to use a different CODENAME at least > 13:40 <asac> e.g. jaunty-me > 13:41 <AnAnt> what issues do you mean? > 13:41 <asac> i would file bugs if i knew about issues > 13:41 <asac> not sure. maybe some software relies on some value in there > 13:41 <asac> but i hope not > 13:41 <asac> rely==if its changed it breaks > > 3] As for version numbering, we can do a (hijri year.month) scheme, but > for the time being, and for reasons similar to those above, I prefer > to stick to Ubuntu's numbering scheme (gregorian year.month) at > least for now. > > > * Regarding the points mentioned above, it would be useful that > someone would check how other Ubuntu-based distros. has handled it > (such as christian edition and linux Mint). > > * Btw, as far as I know the shrine of Taj Mahal has nothing to do with > Islam. > > * I noticed on LinuxAC that some people there are very fond of Mint, > as far as I understand from a colleague the ppl at Mint by default > installs codecs and software that Ubuntu do not install by default. > It would be useful to see what they've done and get ideas. > > * Similarly I suggest that we work closely with the guys in Ojuba > distro (we already have a person in common, bro AlSadi), since both > distros. have almost similar targets. > > * For the artwork we must decide on codename for next 'jaunty based' > release, and that decision must be made as soon as possible. > > Brother Fadi: I'm ready to receive your artwork to start packaging > it :) > > * I have an idea to further split each artwork (gdm, themes) package > into several target packages to minimize size. For example we got 3 > GDM themes so far (not to mention the one Fadi has done), if we > install all those themes by the default, we will be taking a lot of > space. So what I am thinking about, is that the gdm themes package > for example would have several target packages, like: > sabily-gdm-themes, sabily-<jaunty>-gdm-themes, > sabily-hardy-gdm-themes. > > <jaunty> should be replaced with our code name for next release, > insh'Allah. > > Where sabily-gdm-themes would depend on the GDM theme that we would > want to install by default (that would be sabily-<jaunty>-gdm-themes > for the upcoming release). > > -- > أحمد المحمودي (Ahmed El-Mahmoudy) > Digital design engineer > GPG KeyID: 0x9DCA0B27 (@ subkeys.pgp.net) > GPG Fingerprint: 087D 3767 8CAC 65B1 8F6C 156E D325 C3C8 9DCA 0B27 > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntume.team> > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : > https://launchpad.net/~ubuntume.team<https://launchpad.net/%7Eubuntume.team> > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp > -- عبد المنعم كوكة Abdelmonam Kouka Software Engineer GNU/Linux user #450141 GPG Fingerprint: EC21 1E4E 5B0C E4E7 0D64 3305 0D62 75C9 2C15 16E0 ================================================ "Some people see things as they are and say why. I dream things that never were and say why not?" [George Bernard Shaw] ================================================ http://www.ubuntume.com/ http://arabeyes.org/ http://www.ubuntu-tn.org/
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