Hi, Here are few ideas I thought about, there are partly remaining tasks from 0.9 and 1.0.
1) Resurrect fwlive fwlive is something essential, personally I usually have one with me, and sometimes it's really handy - there were no fwlive release for 1.0, due to recent kernel/busybox/sqlzma breakage. It would be really good to be able to make it working again for 1.1pre1. 2) Graphical installer http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2348 Should we close this? I think at least we need to wait till fwlive works again and fwife works within fwlive. AFAIK noone from the dev team is interested in a redhat-like graphical installer - but in case someone really wants to do it, I don't mind. 3) sysvinit translations http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2870 This is something probably I should work on, po files in frugalware-current.git are dead, we should create a separate frugalware-translations package for sysvinit scripts and put it to Pootle. 4) Pootle integration for newsletters and news entries http://bugs.frugalware.org/task/2873 Probably IroNiQ or me could work on this, once we impelemented this, we probably could have an up2date French/Danish translation for news entries and newsletters. Remaining ideas from http://frugalware.org/pipermail/frugalware-devel/2008-September/005627.html: 5) Hooks for texinfo / desktop files /etc One step we did is that we have the interesting strings (ie "starting full system upgrade", "upgraded foo", etc.) in English in the log file, so that it should be fairly easy to get the list of added/upgraded/removed pkgs of the last -Su from the logfile in a hook, but that's all. We still execute texinfo after each package and this could be improved. This could speed up a default install *a lot*, I guess. (The monit and fselect ideas are nice, but it seems there aren't too much demand on them.) 6) Fpm archive This should be now quite easy, because repoman does not do an 'ssh genesis; do something' but has an interface, and calls only 'ssh genesis repoman server <params>' all the time, so we just need to change the repoman server internal implementation. 7) repoman log Ditto, only repoman server have to be modified, and I think it would be nice to have this one. A few really new ideas: 8) AFAIK we haven't had a TODO item for the old init scripts, now we could really get rid of the old ones for 1.1 to make gService happy even for some rare packages which are not installed on most systems. 9) I got a request in private that it would be nice to have pacman-g2 --help (and similar) strings to have in one string in the po files, that would result in better translations. I agree with this, it would be good to check our other translatable projects as well (frugalwareutils, etc). Feel free to reply to this mail and add your own ones. :) [ For those who are sorrowed by not seeing tons of new and innovative ideas: I don't think we really need big and radical changes in 1.1: maintaining what we currently have is a big task on its own and doing it properly for a long time is a great goal itself. But of course in case others have other brand new ideas, I don't want to block them. :) ]
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