[gentoo-dev] newbie on the list: how to get involved in the gentoo's development

[gentoo-dev] newbie on the list: how to get involved in the gentoo's development

[sdesseaux]

Hi!

Since February, i am happy to work with Gentoo. It's a great!!
If i write today, it's because i'd like to get involved in the gentoo 
linux development.
I'm a french programer of 27 years old and a big user of Linux since 
1998. I think there's so many things to do but i'd like to have advices, 
ideas about how to work on gentoo's development.

Moreover, i've an idea of project but before, i'd like to have your 
point of view. The installation of gentoo is long and a bit hard for 
newbies (most of people says to me that it has taken a long time before 
having a Gentoo which run without any problems). So, in my mind, i think
it would be a good thing to create a graphical installator (like 
traditionals's linux (mandrake,redhat....) for Gentoo and giving the 
choice of installation (graphical or text mode).
According to me, it would be a useful tool for Gentoo and for the users.

So, give me your opinion.

Regards

Samuel



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Re: [gentoo-dev] newbie on the list: how to get involved in the gentoo's development

[Svyatogor]

On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:51:34 +0200
sdesseaux <sdesseaux@free.fr> wrote:

> Hi!
> 
> Since February, i am happy to work with Gentoo. It's a great!!
> If i write today, it's because i'd like to get involved in the gentoo 
> linux development.
> I'm a french programer of 27 years old and a big user of Linux since 
> 1998. I think there's so many things to do but i'd like to have advices, 
> ideas about how to work on gentoo's development.

If you want to find and area in which you'd be interested to help out, you might
find it useful to have a look a bugzilla, as it would provide you with
information on what bugs we have and you might be able to help close some of
them.

> 
> Moreover, i've an idea of project but before, i'd like to have your 
> point of view. The installation of gentoo is long and a bit hard for 
> newbies (most of people says to me that it has taken a long time before 
> having a Gentoo which run without any problems). So, in my mind, i think
> it would be a good thing to create a graphical installator (like 
> traditionals's linux (mandrake,redhat....) for Gentoo and giving the 
> choice of installation (graphical or text mode).
> According to me, it would be a useful tool for Gentoo and for the users.

It would deffinetly be useful! AFAIK there is a project like that, or at least
it was discussed a number of times here. Anyone knows what's the current status
with it?

-- 
Let the Force be with us!
Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org>
Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sergey/gentoo-gpg

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Re: [gentoo-dev] newbie on the list: how to get involved in the gentoo's development

[Mooktakim Ahmed]

There is a project which is also trying to develop a gentoo installer. Its a
console based installer, uses dialog a lot.

here is the thread that they use to discuss:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=55293&highlight=installer

this is their website:
http://glis.sourceforge.net/

Good luck :-)

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From: "Svyatogor" <svyatogor@gentoo.org>
To: <gentoo-dev@gentoo.org>
Sent: Friday, July 18, 2003 2:12 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-dev] newbie on the list: how to get involved in the
gentoo's development


> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003 13:51:34 +0200
> sdesseaux <sdesseaux@free.fr> wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > Since February, i am happy to work with Gentoo. It's a great!!
> > If i write today, it's because i'd like to get involved in the gentoo
> > linux development.
> > I'm a french programer of 27 years old and a big user of Linux since
> > 1998. I think there's so many things to do but i'd like to have advices,
> > ideas about how to work on gentoo's development.
>
> If you want to find and area in which you'd be interested to help out, you
might
> find it useful to have a look a bugzilla, as it would provide you with
> information on what bugs we have and you might be able to help close some
of
> them.
>
> >
> > Moreover, i've an idea of project but before, i'd like to have your
> > point of view. The installation of gentoo is long and a bit hard for
> > newbies (most of people says to me that it has taken a long time before
> > having a Gentoo which run without any problems). So, in my mind, i think
> > it would be a good thing to create a graphical installator (like
> > traditionals's linux (mandrake,redhat....) for Gentoo and giving the
> > choice of installation (graphical or text mode).
> > According to me, it would be a useful tool for Gentoo and for the users.
>
> It would deffinetly be useful! AFAIK there is a project like that, or at
least
> it was discussed a number of times here. Anyone knows what's the current
status
> with it?
>
> -- 
> Let the Force be with us!
> Sergey Kuleshov <svyatogor@gentoo.org>
> Public Key: http://dev.gentoo.org/~sergey/gentoo-gpg
>
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>
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Re: [gentoo-dev] newbie on the list: how to get involved in the gentoo's development

[Luke-Jr]

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I am working on an installation application designed for the newbie computer 
or Linux user (or simply someone who may know how to do a "complete" install, 
but is in a hurry). The installation application itself (InGen) is being 
written in BASH, currently seperated into 7 steps:
	1. Setup partitions
	2. Copy system, unmerging disabled packages live
	3. Create users
	4. Copy network configuration
	5. Copy printer configuration
	6. Configure time stuff
	7. Monitor configuration changes
The user would be using a frontend written in C++ which uses Qt and writes 
configuration files for InGen. This installation method is designed to be put 
on a KDE LiveCD.

If you're interested, it's in CVS under gentoo/users/luke-jr/ingen/

On Friday 18 July 2003 11:51 am, sdesseaux wrote:
> Hi!
>
> Since February, i am happy to work with Gentoo. It's a great!!
> If i write today, it's because i'd like to get involved in the gentoo
> linux development.
> I'm a french programer of 27 years old and a big user of Linux since
> 1998. I think there's so many things to do but i'd like to have advices,
> ideas about how to work on gentoo's development.
>
> Moreover, i've an idea of project but before, i'd like to have your
> point of view. The installation of gentoo is long and a bit hard for
> newbies (most of people says to me that it has taken a long time before
> having a Gentoo which run without any problems). So, in my mind, i think
> it would be a good thing to create a graphical installator (like
> traditionals's linux (mandrake,redhat....) for Gentoo and giving the
> choice of installation (graphical or text mode).
> According to me, it would be a useful tool for Gentoo and for the users.
>
> So, give me your opinion.
>
> Regards
>
> Samuel
>
>
>
> --
> gentoo-dev@gentoo.org mailing list

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Developer, Gentoo Linux
http://www.gentoo.org/
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