On Thu, 19 Apr 2012 03:52:29 +0100
Bruce Dubbs <[email protected]> wrote:

> Ken, Andy, Ragnar, Armin, Fernando,
> 
> Could you please let me know what you are planning to work on for the next 
> few 
> weeks.  I've been working tickets and we are now down to 30!

I'll write a page for Lm_sensors in a few days. Other than that I don't
have any plans. I suppose I could start hassling to get Roxterm and
Sylpheed into the book :)

> I'm sure there are packages that are not quite up to date and not in the 
> ticket 
> system, but overall progress is excellent and we are as up to date as I've 
> seen 
> in probably 5 or more years.

Indeed, and it's had some cruft trimmed too, which has also improved it.

> Perhaps we should discuss an overall plan.  Do we want to make any major 
> changes 
> or settle back to a maintenance mode for a while?

There is a major change I'd like to see but I don't have the energy to
do it. I don't like the Xorg chapter with its scripted downloading and
compiling. It seems to me to be at odds with the rest of BLFS. I'd like
to see every Xorg package with its own page complete with dependencies
(they aren't all required). But it'd be such a big job I don't think
it'll ever happen.

> Should we tackle a LiveCD again?

As a BLFS thing? I thought the Live CD was a separate project. It seems
to me that the big problem with a live CD is supporting all the
hardware that's out there. With a lot of work we could get it to work
on all the computers we have but every other person who tried it would
have new hardware issues. It would be a labour of Sisyphus.
I recently tried both Fedora and Ubunut 32 bit on 2 of my computers and
neither of them could work my graphics cards (recent ATI that require
firmware). Oddly the x86_64 versions worked.

> By the way, I'd like to say a great big thank you to all of you who have 
> worked 
> so hard to improve this project in the last few months.  The book is a 
> reflection of your dedication, skill, and knowledge.  Great job!

Thankyou Bruce

Andy
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