On Wed, May 10, 2000 at 08:59:27AM +0200, Ralf Flaxa wrote: > As I am "officially leading" the LSB implementation team let me explain > you where we currently are and what the next steps will be.
Thanks! > o We compiled a list of things, that need to be done/written. I am still > working on that but I hope to post this to this list by the end of this > week, at least before I start traveling and meeting with them. Ok. > 1. A development system recompiles a development system from sources > 2. The resulting development system rebuilds itself > 3. The now clean (fixpoint!) development system rebuilds itself again > and also all the other packages too. Sounds good. > Once we have doen this it will allow us to upload a clean source base > to SourceForge and that was planned as the "visible" starting point. > We did not want to upload something that can't rebuild itself and was > just "hacked" together somehow. We believe that a good quality start > is crucial to the success of it. This makes a lot of sense. Having something that actually works will encourage people to continue, rather than going away. > > Actually, that is really my question. Is anyone working on a sample > > implementation in parallel with the other efforts? > Yes, there is. The reason why you haven't seen anything yet is that > we have to have a critical mass that makes sense for others to > download and play with. We hope to have this available before the > end of May. > If there are people willing to help even in this early stage, please > contact me and I will think about ways to cut out some pieces for > you so that you don't have to download hundreds of MB every day to > stay in sync with the major changes we currently do. Both myself and another Developer here in our Padua offices are interested in helping out with this development. I don't think we can guarantee full time, but let's see what there is that we can assist with. Thanks, -- David N. Welton, Responsabile Progetti Open Source, Linuxcare Italia spa tel +39.049.8043411 fax +39.049.8043412 cel +39.348.2879508 [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://www.linuxcare.com/ Linuxcare. Support for the revolution.
