Hi Folks, Thought it is a good time to socialize what's up with work on the 0.7.1 release. Right now progress on the new website is a little slow with several of us busy.
I have built ON B90 and new FOX sources and using a base set of packages from the existing BeleniX release I have created a chroot environment where it is possible to compile stuff. I am currently building the SFW consolidation within that chroot environment. Subsequently I will be upgrading various packages in the BeleniX spec files repository to newer versions and also upgrade to KDE 3.5.9 and build all of those. Once these things are done we will have a new set of packages using which I can generate a new ISO and start testing it. I will also post a test version of the ISO for others to try out. We will be tackling the various bugs and RFE after all these builds are done. One of the things that people can help out with is to update the BeleniX spec files to newer versions. In additions new artwork like wallpapers, suggested themes etc. are welcome. One major work will be to build the slim_install repository and re-brand the Caiman installer. This task is made difficult since most of the strings are hardcoded and scattered all over the source files. Ideally these should all be macros in a single header file. Can someone help with modifying Caiman sources to collect all strings as macros in a single header ? The task should be straightforward if a little tedious - maybe some scripting can help. We can then submit a bug against Caiman and propose this patch on indiana-discuss. This is important to allow other distros to easily re-brand Caiman and use it. Finally GNOME 2.22 (JDS) will also have to be built. I will start pushing the packages to the BeleniX package repository server as and when I have them built. These will still be in the form of SVR4 packages installable via pkg-get as IPS work will take some time. IMHO IPS still has a bunch of problems and areas of improvement that need addressing before it can be generally used. Lack of an on-disk format and mirroring are some things I personally consider impt. limitations. Of course I have missed or glossed over more work that needs to be done. Regards, Moinak.
