On Fri, Jun 22, 2012 at 5:46 PM, James Buren <[email protected]> wrote:
> I have a TODO list for 1.8 that I have drafted from a lot of thinking. Any
> of these
> interest someone? It would be nice to not always have to do things alone.
>
> 1) Mesa 8.1.x series upgrade

I can help with this one, especially if there's anything to do for
llvm since I'm the m8r for that.

> 2) Kernel 3.6 or 3.7 (whichever is newest by pre2)
>
> 3) libva/libvdpau/libcrystalhd moved to main, backends for most hardware
> enabled,
> and enabled in most software we use. This is for video decoding
> acceleration.
>
> 4) GRUB2 2.0 upgrade if available by pre2.
>
> 5) glibc 2.16 upgrade if available by pre2.

Sure, I already helped with 2.15 so no problem, count me in for this.

> 6) Rewrite installer to be easier to extend in the future. It should at
> least support
> existing features from the current installer. Possible new features would be
> assisted
> LVM2 setup, U/EFI, install from livecd, and/or GUI mode.

As we discussed on IRC this is a top priority for 1.8 and we have to a
good new installer so yes I'll help with this.

> 7) Extend pacman-g2 hooks to allow system caching commands to be in a single
> place instead of 500+ install scriptlets in many packages via
> gnome-scriptlet or fonts
> schemas. Gconf and systemd will still require a schema as they require a
> specific module
> to be named. The caching commands do it for the entire system, and it
> doesn't need to know
> what packages were upgraded or removed to do it correctly.
>
> 8) Extend GRUB2 to support a "no X" mode when booting.
>
>
>
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