[kamion-devel] irc meeting, take 2

[Ljubomir S. <lju...@gm...>]

Hi,

Tonight we had a first irc meeting on the #kamion channel @ freenode.
There weren't many people on the channel, but hey it's a start!

I'll try to summarize my personal conclusions from the meeting, as
well as other points that I consider important.
Disclaimer: I didn't understand all the hi-tech stuff, if anybody
disagrees please elaborate.

1. In order to attract people to our app we need to have an official
release first. However, we need to take care of a few more steps:
2. We need a way to read rc files.
 2a. KDE rc files - if we link to KConfig, we loose the portability.
Is parsing the files "by hand" an acceptable solution?
 2b. GConf XML files. Do we care? ;)
3. Small refactorings of the recipe format - replacing <name> with
<file> (or was it the other way around?) and such...
4. Should we have a user-writable directory (preferably inside ~) for
storing the recipes?
5. Should we support multiple kde/gnome installations? (like .kde and
.kde4 available at the same time)
6. Should we rely on bash and tar to make our backups, or should we
code it with qt/libtar/whatever?
7. Repackaging takes some additional space in temp directory. Find a
way to work with FIFO pipelines?
8. Distro specific packages. After we implement all desired features
for our first release, we should seek for packagers. I could talk with
some Kubuntu ppl, others mentioned Gentoo and SUSE.
9. Release announcement. I'll try to write some good release
announcement and post in on the dot.
10. Webpage.Who is gonna maintain it?
11. Next meeting date. We should definitely organize another one. :)

Anyway, just for the record: Kamion from SVN compiles, installs and
works ;). Hurray!

So, let the brainstorm begin! Post your opinions, ideas and suggestions...

PS. I've attached the whole meeting log, but my mail bounced due to
some size restrictions. It'll come through, eventually :)

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Ljubomir Simin
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