From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: <gentoo-desktop-research-return-33673-arch-gentoo-desktop-research=gentoo.org@lists.gentoo.org> Received: (qmail 21155 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2004 14:00:11 +0000 Received: from smtp.gentoo.org (128.193.0.39) by eagle.gentoo.oregonstate.edu with DES-CBC3-SHA encrypted SMTP; 20 Jan 2004 14:00:11 +0000 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([128.193.0.34] helo=eagle.gentoo.org) by smtp.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1AiwQM-0005aE-Ui for arch-gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org; Tue, 20 Jan 2004 14:00:10 +0000 Received: (qmail 24181 invoked by uid 50004); 20 Jan 2004 14:00:07 +0000 Mailing-List: contact gentoo-desktop-research-help@gentoo.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Post: <mailto:gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org> List-Help: <mailto:gentoo-desktop-research-help@gentoo.org> List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:gentoo-desktop-research-unsubscribe@gentoo.org> List-Subscribe: <mailto:gentoo-desktop-research-subscribe@gentoo.org> List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail <gentoo-desktop-research.gentoo.org> Reply-To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org X-BeenThere: gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org Received: (qmail 2400 invoked from network); 20 Jan 2004 14:00:07 +0000 From: foser <foser@gentoo.org> To: gentoo-desktop-research@lists.gentoo.org In-Reply-To: <200401201355.36626.pauldv@gentoo.org> References: <200401200954.58818.pauldv@gentoo.org> <1074595204.13623.27.camel@rivendell> <200401201355.36626.pauldv@gentoo.org> Content-Type: text/plain Message-Id: <1074607205.13623.92.camel@rivendell> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.5 Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2004 15:00:06 +0100 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Subject: Re: [gentoo-desktop-research] Report of the desktop-research meeting. X-Archives-Salt: 537265ce-736f-4f90-b4e2-6243a63b709a X-Archives-Hash: f00a2bb5f7291d34b830483bcec3ff02 On Tue, 2004-01-20 at 13:55, Paul de Vrieze wrote: > The purpose of the meeting was specifically not to discuss possible > solutions for solving the "installer" problem. That is actually a > subject of research. If someone else wants to step up as lead that is > good for me. (if you want to do it, I'm ok and I suppose spyderous is > too) No, I'm little interested in creating an installer personally. The question about spyderous's lead is not one about competence, but as the log shows he doesn't seem to be hot on leading it either. I think that in itself is already an indicator of how spyderous perceives this project. If someone is really interested in doing this, well then he should take lead. Spyderous seems to have taken it, because noone else wanted to and the project was dubbed too important to be dropped or left around for some later point. > The main point was first on selecting lines of research and starting a > group for actually performing the named research. Things have been going > to slow with research and this is an attempt at getting things going. We > need people to actually do things an getting results. Yeah i know what the point was, but i hoped it would be more attainable projects that would be chosen. > To me an installer that is aimed at single-system installs is very much a > desktop topic. It is concerned with the use as workstation. As such this > is a desktop-research topic 'workstation' to me sounds like a business/school/etc (non-home) environment, in such an environment it's usually not the best idea to install per-machine by using some GUI (or not) installer. I can see the use of an installer, that is not my point. It's about the size of this project vs. the non-existent experience of this team as an entity and that it touches much more aspects of Gentoo than the desktop alone. Actually think it's not a desktop project as such, because creating the actual UI is most likely the minor part of the work. - foser -- gentoo-desktop-research@gentoo.org mailing list