Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/4/06, Bruce Dubbs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. Ignore the issues. 2. Add i18n / CLFS issues to each package as they come up. 3. Have a section or appendix in the book to address the issues and link each package to the appropriate part. This is the approach that has been taken

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
I had another thought about how to go about how to support clfs, i18n, etc. Perhaps we could initiate a User Contributed Notes section that could be submitted by a general user similar to the php documentation. For example see: http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.php As I envision

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Bruce's original email seemed to imply that additional work is a consideration. It is a consideration, but the most important issue is qualification to make the appropriate changes. The editors do not have the qualifications to make appropriate changes in every area.

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Trac could provide a wiki and replace bugzilla with one swoop (and there are other benefits). BTW, I know Matt at one time wanted to know if Trac could import databases from Bugzilla. http://projects.edgewall.com/trac/wiki/TracImport -- JH --

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Andrew Benton
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: I think I still prefer the wiki. And re-establishing a properly moderated and full-featured wiki could benefit the entire LFS community once again, not just BLFS. The only reason our old wiki was dropped was because of lack of use and poor moderation. If we have more

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Miguel Bazdresch
* Alexander E. Patrakov [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2006-01-05 16:48]: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: It would definitely help the workload if some packages in BLFS were removed. For starters, perhaps BLFS could employ a policy that any that are just a simple CMMI install (or ones which are easy to tweak by

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-05 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Oh yeah? I'll give you something to sigh about... /me dips Archaic's hands in maple syrup and tacks pages of 'War and Peace' to them. Hrm. Doesn't seem to have worked... :/ -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ:

Re: BLFS Expansion

2006-01-04 Thread Chris Staub
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Recently there has been a lot of activity in the LFS community. There has been especially important activity in internationalization (i18n) and cross-LFS (CLFS) that has the potential to to expand the horizon of BLFS significantly. We have already started putting some i18n