Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-16 Thread Steven Chamberlain
On 16/08/13 11:28, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 11:54 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: > [...] >> * The kfreebsd-kernel udebs could be handled by the kfreebsd kernel >> maintainers, as has already happened with the linux kernel udebs. > [...] > > They are (in unstable). The 9.2-1 udebs a

Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
Is it time to add a 'real' scripting language to debian-installer, that would make development more accessible? (Even switching to bash would make it somewhat less painful. It has arrays!) The minimum memory requirements have grown to the point that adding a compact interpreter (e.g. lua or pyth

Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-16 Thread Ben Hutchings
On Fri, 2013-08-16 at 11:54 +0200, Joey Hess wrote: [...] > * The kfreebsd-kernel udebs could be handled by the kfreebsd kernel > maintainers, as has already happened with the linux kernel udebs. [...] They are (in unstable). Ben. -- Ben Hutchings I haven't lost my mind; it's backed up on tap

Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-16 Thread Joey Hess
Christian PERRIER wrote: > OK, let's throw out a few ideas in the wild. > > Bug triaging could be a good start. Holger did a lot of work recently > with installation reports and confirmed me that he will continue after > DebConf. > > Some progress could be made by looking at bugs already assigned

Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-16 Thread Christian PERRIER
Quoting Cyril Brulebois (k...@debian.org): > > Could someone write such a job description, or help me write it? I'm > > totally clueless about d-i development, so I would need some help, > > unfortunately. > > Maybe Christian could help write bits about d-i? He's quite good at > making (possibly

Re: status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-15 Thread Cyril Brulebois
Hi Lucas, and thanks for your interest in this. Lucas Nussbaum (2013-08-16): > It has been suggested to me that the work on d-i could use more > manpower. AFAIK, the current active maintainer is Cyril Brulebois, but > I've been told that he could use some help for the jessie cycle. :) > Cyril, a

status of d-i development -- call for help?

2013-08-15 Thread Lucas Nussbaum
Hi, It has been suggested to me that the work on d-i could use more manpower. AFAIK, the current active maintainer is Cyril Brulebois, but I've been told that he could use some help for the jessie cycle. :) Cyril, am I correct? I think that something that is worth trying is to write a call for he