Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp
* Martin Sjögren | Hello everbody. I'm sure you're just aching to know how to help the | debian-installer project :-) so I thought I'd post a list of a few | things that I know we need help with. We probably need a lot more help | than I can think of right now, but feel free to reply to the mail and | add more things. [...] | * We have a terrible lack of usb and pcmcia support. A lot of work | is needed here. Can't tell you more about this, since I know | basically nothing about it. | | * There's of course the [4]porting... We'll have at least a few powerpcs around, and I think somebody was bringing a MIPS motherboard as well. | * The network configuration stuff is something of a mess, really. dhcp | should be much smoother, and should really hostname configuration be in | netcfg? no, it should probably be in base-config, but if the dhcp client has gotten any extra information, it should be passed on so that both the rest of d-i and base-config can get at it. dhcp is an incredibly powerful protocol.. -- Tollef Fog Heen,''`. UNIX is user friendly, it's just picky about who its friends are : :' : `. `' `- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debcamp] Re: Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp
On Sun, Jul 13, 2003 at 12:46:16PM +0100, Peter Karlsson wrote: > Martin Sj?gren: > > > *cough* But there are probably a lot of messages that won't change > > all that much, that can be translated. > > Great. Where do I check the sources out? Thus sayeth the README: For Debian developers: -- cvs -d:ext:@cvs.debian.org:/cvs/debian-boot co debian-installer For non-DDs: cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot login cvs -d:pserver:[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvs/debian-boot co debian-installer -- Matt Kraai [EMAIL PROTECTED] Debian GNU/Linux -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp
Martin Sjögren: > *cough* But there are probably a lot of messages that won't change > all that much, that can be translated. Great. Where do I check the sources out? -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: [Debcamp] Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp
sön 2003-07-13 klockan 11.25 skrev Peter Karlsson: > Martin Sjögren: > > > We probably need a lot more help than I can think of right now, but > > feel free to reply to the mail and add more things. > > I would love to get started on the Swedish translation of the > installer, if that's possible (or even wise, considering how much will > change before the release). A lot of things will change, for sure, many of the current messages are mostly "placeholders", like the main-menu "Here is the main menu" ;) and there will be a lot *more* messages, when we finally have some decent error handling. *cough* But there are probably a lot of messages that won't change all that much, that can be translated. You are of course more than welcome to help us fill in these gaps, too! /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello) signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
Re: debian-installer tasks for debcamp
Martin Sjögren: > We probably need a lot more help than I can think of right now, but > feel free to reply to the mail and add more things. I would love to get started on the Swedish translation of the installer, if that's possible (or even wise, considering how much will change before the release). -- \\// Peter - http://www.softwolves.pp.se/ I do not read or respond to mail with HTML attachments. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
debian-installer tasks for debcamp
Hello everbody. I'm sure you're just aching to know how to help the debian-installer project :-) so I thought I'd post a list of a few things that I know we need help with. We probably need a lot more help than I can think of right now, but feel free to reply to the mail and add more things. * There's a [1]bug list for d-i. Not all bugs in the list are d-i bugs, since the page lists all the bugs in the corresponding source packages. * We've been mainly using the [2]text frontend on the sarge test CDs for a very simple reason. We are not sure which udebs might accidentally print some interesting debug output to stderr. There's also a (IMNSHO, since I wrote it) prettier [3]newt frontend, that has the drawback of overwriting things a udeb prints. :) Thus, we need somebody or preferrably somebodIES to go through all udebs and ensure that nothing is ever ever ever printed to stdout or stderr. Relevant error messages should be presented with debconf and a lot of things should probably be logged. This doesn't require much expertise in the d-i design and may be a good way to get started with d-i. (random idea, maybe a libdebconf-errno would be neat?) * Testing. Testing. Testing. Do you have arcane hardware that we can test d-i on? Terrific! Do you have general comments on the interface? Terrific! Note, however that I will not listen to comments like "text-based installers suck, you should have a GUI installer, why don't you have a GUI installer yet?" * We have a terrible lack of usb and pcmcia support. A lot of work is needed here. Can't tell you more about this, since I know basically nothing about it. * There's of course the [4]porting... * Some people have been talking about a d-i [5]homepage. I dunno what should be on it, but maybe someone feels like working on this... * base-installer/debootstrap needs a proper progress bar, I intend to work on this, even if it means chaining aj to a chair to make him help me. * The network configuration stuff is something of a mess, really. dhcp should be much smoother, and should really hostname configuration be in netcfg? * I intend to hack a lot on cdebconf. There are plenty of fixed-size buffers all over the code, that I will need help to eliminate. Die, fixed-size buffers, DIE! Well, that's what I could think of from the top of my head. There is more things to do, that we'll think of later. :) [1] http://bugs.qa.debian.org/cgi-bin/debian-installer.cgi?full=yes [2] http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-02-16/text/ [3] http://people.debian.org/~sjogren/d-i/screenshots/2003-07-13/newt/ [4] http://people.debian.org/~pere/debian-installer/ports-status.html [5] http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot-0307/msg00048.html /Martin -- Martin Sjögren [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] GPG key: http://www.mdstud.chalmers.se/~md9ms/gpg.html let hello = "hello" : hello in putStr (unlines hello) signature.asc Description: Detta =?ISO-8859-1?Q?=E4r?= en digitalt signeradmeddelandedel
