Re: [kamion-devel] first irc meeting

[Pedro de C. <lei...@gm...>]

Em Quinta 07 Fevereiro 2008, Ljubomir Simin escreveu:
>  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?

my take on this is that if the user has a kde app, well.. we should be able to 
use the kde features the user has, like the kconfig.  we can make it optional 
at compile time or as Ivan said, at runtime.

>   2b. GConf XML files. Do we care? ;)

not yet? :D

>  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?

well, so keeping in mind that we may have redudant data,  this point is agreed 
to move into $HOME. 

>  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?

since it's a core thing,  i propose use the libs directly.

>  7. Repackaging takes some additional space in temp directory. Find a
>  way to work with FIFO pipelines?

later on?

>  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?

i don't mind ;) we also could do like the nouveau guys that have a online page 
with the irclogs of the "TiNDC": The irregular Nouveau Development Companions
http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/
i've installed another bot to do the logging.

>  11. Next meeting date. We should definitely organize another one. :)

i'm sorry to miss the first one, but i'm all for a weekly one. it helps on 
being productive. :)

>  Anyway, just for the record: Kamion from SVN compiles, installs and
>  works ;). Hurray!
>
ummm, i must be doing something wrong. 

>  So, let the brainstorm begin! Post your opinions, ideas and suggestions...
>
>  PS. I'm attaching the whole meeting log, if anybody cares so much ;)


oh, Ljubomir, stop talking to the bots! 
:P