[Dwai-developers] roadmap

[Lucio C. <lu...@su...>]

Hello friends,

while I wait for your feedback on the dewmaster script and the dwai-client 
script, I give a draft of the roadmap for the dwai project. Comments are 
welcome.

1. Integration with shared-mime-info
  Here we need a tool that the user can launch at will that register the dwai
  mime type with the mime database and associates it with the dwai-client
  script. 
  I guess this can be done using something in the package shared-mime-info,
  but I don't have that package installed just now and I cannot install it for
  a number of reasons (at least for a few days). If someone has it installed
  or can install it and takes a look at how to accomplish the work above
  he/she will deserve my special thanks.
2. Packaging of dwai-client for Debian
  We need to deb-package the dwai-client script. In other words we need to
  build dwaiclient-0.1alpha.deb . I hope Davide has time to waste for that,
  otherwise I'll have to learn how to build a deb package myself. While
  learning is not a problem, I'd like to have the package included in the
  stable release of Etch, and there isn't much time anymore. Maybe someone
  else here knows how to do a deb package.
  The deb package should use the tool described in #1 in the pre-configure
  script, so that the dwai-client, as a standard installation step, integrates
  smoothly with any browser that uses shared-mime-info.
  I plan to have this deb package within the 20th of september, hoping that
  it will not be too late for inclusion in Etch. Said that, I badly need a 
  package mantainer within a few days, be it me or anyone else.
3. Building a sample DEW with a few packages
  We need a DEW (Dwai Enabled Website) to play with. The project website is 
  a good place for it, and we can add a few pages with the .dwai files. We can
  build .dwai files that point to any deb package on the web.

Once we have those 3 things done, we can move a step forward and advertise the 
project around the world, because it will be simply useable and there will be 
everything needed for a POC. Since 1 and 2 are VERY urgent, and 3 is VERY 
easy, I'm faithful I'll be able to advertise the project during the upcoming 
italian "Linux Day", on next October 28.

Lucio.