dubuntu-team team mailing list archive

["Jay I." <jay.27182818@xxxxxxxxx>]

hi ryan.
being a fan of mailing lists i mostly dislike forums - there's often too
much space around your text filled up with graphics, ads etc. for cg
related things (posting images, tutorials about graphic packages etc.)
forums are great but for development discussion mailing lists cover all
the needs. that's my point of view.

what about the website, i created the design prototype in inkscape so if
you like i can send you the .svg (if it's still alive). currently i'm
very busy with my job so if you're not against i will leave all the
web-related work to you;)

if i remember it correctly we stopped at the idea of having a database
that will contain information about packages and package categories that
we are gonna have in our distribution, and a package manager that will
use this database. i had some time to think about it and came to this:

what if the database will contain a link to approp. apt-repository for
every package so that the package manager could use something like dpkg
to perform actual installation/removal. i mean the package manager will
read description of a package found in the db, extract url, pull the
package from it's repo and pass it to dpkg - just like we do it when we
manually download a single package and install it. this approach we let
us implement entire package management in a month or so. i'm currently
just overloaded with my job so i can't tell how much time i will find
for this project but i believe that even with little amount of effort
from everyone we will manage to make a release in a couple of months.

regards,
jay

On Tue, 2009-06-30 at 17:22 +0930, Ryan Macnish wrote:
> Hey,
> 
> thanks for the quick reply. Im definitely not saying that we shouldnt
> use our mailing list i use them all the time and they are great. But i
> simply think that a forum would be better since we are trying to
> discuss something here in high detail and it can be difficult to do
> that when there more than 3-4 people discussing it.
> 
> Im just suggesting that we brainstorm and advertise using the forum
> and then simply use the mailing list for shorter messages, rather than
> big discussions. Im not saying we have to, im just saying it may be a
> good idea based off of my own experience with these things. Im also
> trying to generarate some discussion.
> 
> Also in my last post i forgot to mention that i support the gtk+python
> method of doing this. Python is sooo much easier to learn than C++ and
> there is already a bunch of python bindings for gtk2+ in the ubuntu
> repos called pygtk.