[U4X-Developer] TODO List for 0.1 (psychosis) Release

[Dean S. <dr...@ro...>]

I'm trying to make a TODO list for the 0.1 release. Here's what I've got
so far:

To be done to the spec files:
- Proper i8n support via the %find-lang macro; this is a minor issue and
can be done later, as fixing bugs in 0.1 is far more important at this
stage
- Different groups than the RH ones. The RedHat groups are absolutely
terrible; they will make using the install/gnorpm/other packaging utils
diffucult. I'm hacking up a proposal for our groups atm, which may end
up being Mandrake's as I think their model looks fairly good (I need to
study it further however; there will be an upcoming mail to the list
regarding the RPM groups)

To Be Rebuilt:
- Everything currently packaged to make use of new spec files and
cryptographically signed

Yet to be packaged:
- libjpeg (have a spec file, am working on it)
- lilo (have a spec file, a boot image, coming soon)
- vim (have a barebones spec file, will try to get to it this week)
- egcs (we need to include a compiler capable of building the kernel;
egcs 1.1.2 is the officially reccomended version; we may ship it as kgcc
similar to the way redhat did)
- others - libtiff, pppd, NVIDIA drivers (i was hoping for the 0.9.7
release to be out soon, but I'm doubting that will happen), mpg123 (ive
got a spec file; it should be relatively easy), reiserfstools (if indeed
we do plan on shipping reiserfs), parted, cvs, hdparm, ttf fonts
(possibly; i will have to look into this further and see if i can find
fonts under acceptable licenses or something; theres always the
fetchmsttfonts script in the XFree86 packages), libfbx (this can be
packaged whenever we feel like it, the spec file is excellent and will
take mebbe 5 secs of modification)
(Note: the above list is mostly stuff I would like to see in 0.1; some
of it can wait for 0.2 if needed)
- what else?? 
(Note: any gtk/gnome stuff will most likely have to wait for 0.2 or just
a later part of 0.1; i want to get this out and test it first. if you
want to use gtk/gnome with this release, the rh7 helix packages should
work fine, although they may require a bit of --nodeps --force loving.
there's not much point in building gnome packages with our limited
resources atm, as gnome 1.4 official will hit the street soon enough)


Yet to be given to me:
- installer (this isnt much of a priority for the 0.1 release; we can
always just hack on the shell script a bit ;-) )
- inits (paul said these would only take a few hours of hacking?)
- kernel (i know paul has been pounding on it, worst case is that i put
together a kernel with various patches and ship that)

Suggestions, rants, flames, cries of terror, tears of joy, etc are
appreciated


Dean