Hello everyone!
As you may have heard, the Arch logo as we know it is going the way of
the dodo! We are refreshing our graphical identity, and in that spirit
we're having a logo competition, open to the entire Arch community!
We want to know what you think of when you think Arch Linux - what logo
do you think would best suit the distribution we've all come to love?
Submission guidelines are as follows:
. Anyone can submit as many logo concepts as they wish
. Entry is freeform, with no need to base it on current logo. Be
creative! . For the sake of moving the competition along, artists will
maintain the rights to their works until the completion of the
competition, when we've decided what to do with license issues.
Per submission, you will need:
. SVG sources for logo preferred. If you don't know how to make SVG
logos, but have a great idea, visit this[1] thread; foxbunny has
graciously stepped up to help with logo concepts. . Fill out the
following on this submission sheet[2] (courtesy of foxbunny) .. Name
(or alias) .. Main logo areas (white/black/neutral BG) .. 2-colour or
Black version .. 128x128px and 16x16px icon version
.. Colour palette used
All other fields are optional - you do not need them to create a
submission, and omission of those options will not count negatively
against you.
Submit completed submission sheet attached in an email to travis AT
archlinux.org. They will be posted in this[3] thread; two weeks after
the date of this post, we will collect all submissions in that thread
and judge.
Judging will be the job of the Developers, and will proceed as follows:
All submissions will be posted to the [arch-dev] private mailing list,
and developers will give their +1 to those logos they like. They may
add a +1 to more than one submission - once all developers are
accounted for, the logo with the most +1 votes will win.
Should multiple logo submissions tie for first place, those entries
will be announced to the community, and we will have a community vote
on the forums. The logo voted highest in this case will be the winner.
Additionally, we'll want to use the logo for additional media - CD
labels or wallpapers, for example. If the winning author hasn't
provided any, they will be given a chance after the competition is over
to create this artwork, if they want. Basically, no need to get it
done before the judging, if you want to do it, so don't worry! :)
Please note: there are also threads for logo concept discussion[4] and
for showing off possible concepts, without entering them into the
competition[5]. Feel free to make use of them.
Good luck to all participants, and have fun!
[1] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38666
[2] http://www.archlinux.org/~travis/logo-contest/submission-blank.png
[3] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=292815
[4] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=38051
[5] http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=290216
There was a mistake in the previous status report. Our release is NOT
"Hardcore" but "Core Dump". My mistake. The entry should read:
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* New release named
Our next ISO release, codenamed "Core Dump", is almost ready to go, and
will be released at the beginning of next month. Be prepared for a
good old round of testing starting this week.
------------------------------------------------------------------------
ArchLinux Status Report, 2007-10-22
And another week goes by. Hectic for me, and I'm sure others too.
Sadly, I got very little of what I hoped accomplished.
So I'll be sure to revisit those items this time.
Just to be clear here, because I don't think I expressed this properly:
The tasks listed here are things I'd _like_ to see done. I'm 100%
positive there are other things that need doing, but if you let _me_
worry about that, it will lift some weight off of all of us.
What I'm saying is this: if you see some sort of larger task that we
should all be a part of, let me know, and I will deal with delegation
and all that fun stuff so you don't have to. And if you have some free
time, check the list I have here.
== Newsworthy Items ==
* New Announcement Mailing List
In a bit of irony, this will be the first email to this new list, I believe.
Please try and use this list for all official announcements, until I
sit down and setup rss2email on gerolde for the front page news.
== Completed Tasks ==
* New initscripts in testing
Looks like we closed out 4 or 5 bugs with this initscripts package, so
congrats guys.
In addition, we've moved the initscripts code out of our package tree:
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=initscripts.git;a=summary
* git project owners
I've setup all our code projects with real owners and groups, so we
can more effectively manage this stuff.
So now we have real people to point fingers at, yay!
You can see the list here:
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/
* AUFS support patch added to kernel26
A small patch was added to our kernel to support building AUFS
out-of-tree from the kernel.
This means that we'll also see aufs packages in extra soon.
* New release named
Our next ISO release, codenamed "Hardcore", is almost ready to go, and
will be released at the beginning of next month. Be prepared for a
good old round of testing starting this week.
== Pending Tasks, Short Term ==
* Core rebuild
With the release of the new glibc, we want to, at the very least,
rebuild all of the core repo to take advantage of the latest changes.
Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002441.html
Extra will be much harder to do, so we should attack the core repo
first. Lets focus on that for now, and complete a rebuild of extra as
the next step.
* License Updates
Travis has provided us a list of packages that have broken or improper
licenses. This stuff is becoming more and more important, so I'd like
to get some supervision here as soon as possible.
This looks like it's a task that pairs well with the core rebuild and
extra cleanup. So, anyone participating in those tasks should keep
this list in mind.
Travis, would it be possible to get this list on the dev wiki? Or
possibly setup as a todo list?
Ref: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002505.html
* New logo competition
Travis is spearheading this competition for our new logo. Sometime
this week, we should get things started, as we have all the rules
down.
There is, however, a question of legality raised by Simo.
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002494.html
If anyone has some insight here, it'd be helpful. We need to address
this before we move forward with this competition.
* The dividing line: extra and community
Last time, we had this discussion, and it didn't go all that much farther.
The question is this: What defines 'extra'? We seemed to talk a big
game, but no decision was really reached.
So, let us revisit this thread if possible:
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002263.html
Do we want to go with Damir's suggestion and make "mantle" and
"crust", or would we rather stick with the current layout and make
extra the "mantle" and community the "crust" ?
* Package and Orphan Cleanup
And again, I've dropped the ball here.
We have a list of packages here:
https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/
If anyone has some freetime, could you help me figure out what needs
to go where, perhaps with another column on that page?
Could we annotate the list with what should move to community and what
should move to unsupported?
In addition, is there any way someone would want to export this list
to the public wiki for review by the TUs?
* DVD and Additional Package ISO Lists
This item has been pending for some time. Discussion was heavy when
this was first brought up, but now no one seems concerned about
additional ISOs for packages.
https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/ISO-Packages/
So, here's the ultimatum: either we at least add a few packages here,
or we decide against doing this at all.
Should we be distributing additional CDs/DVDs like this?
* Unified chroot build tools
I have some minor modifications still pending, but this should be
ready to go this week.
Andy's already done some testing and reported some errors. If you guys
could try and go through here and test, that'd be great. Any criticism
is appreciated.
http://code.phraktured.net/?p=devtools.git;a=summary
* Perl policy
I've created a bug collector for Perl policy changes:
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8374
It would be nice if anyone vested in perl on Arch would help out here.
Patches for PKGBUILDs are always appretiated.
== Pending Tasks, Long Term ==
* Getting rid of CVS
This is a LONG time coming. We've been sitting on CVS for some time,
and many of us (including myself) feel that it's time to move on.
We've tried to discuss how to do this numerous times, but hit a brick
wall that seems to be made of lack-of-work and I-don't-want-to-change.
Thankfully, Jason stepped up to the plate and provided us with a
working SVN implementation of a new PKGBUILD repo setup:
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/002308.html
If anyone else has something to show for this, don't be shy, let us see it.
For some reason apathy overtakes this topic whenever it's discussed,
and Id love to prevent that from happening again.
* Pacman 3.1 Release
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8109
Ah, another stagnating task. Dan's been pushing some interesting
patches into git, but haven't got many of these big bugs closed.
Dan, could you let me know when you're free this week? We could sit
down and 'sprint' a few of these bugs away.
* DB Script Rewrite
This item is going to become more and more important if we change repo
layouts (see above).
I'd like to split this task up into a few actionable portions:
a) Get the DB scripts setup in a git repo like everything else
b) Find an "owner" who wants to read through the code and address what
would need to change if we changed SCMs.
c) Try
* Official pacbuild usage
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/001944.html
We have an official git repo for pacbuild sitting here:
http://projects.archlinux.org/git/?p=pacbuild.git;a=summary
I don't think we've had any news on this front. We only have a small
contingent of developers actually writing code, so this is a difficult
one.
I'd love to get someone in place actually working on pacbuild
fulltime, as it's a very important tool for us.
Do we have any python coders among us that want to show their mettle?
* 'Continuous Integration' setup / machine
Still an item on here. I think we're going to wait and see how we move
our repo SCM in order to do this, as it'd really be just a hook to
that SCM.
* Modernize our Dashboard
I have some documentation on doing this, I want to finalize it and
possibly setup a test instance on one of my machines at home for us to
play with.
Eliott, Simo: I'd still like to get a sanitized git repo up for the
web code, so the public can play with it as well.
Is either of you available to do this sometime this week?
* Architecture Independent Repos
This one also seems to have gone by the wayside. What happened to the
flare we had for this, or are we all waiting for someone else to do
the work?
http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8153
Action Items:
a) Update devtools to support arch=(all) by tagging for BOTH CURRENT
and CURRENT64
b) Update DB scripts to support arch=(all) by running DB scripts for
BOTH architectures.
c) Test. Test. Test.
* ArchCon 2009: Big Baaad Idea
http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001614.html
Ah ArchCon. There was a burst of enthusiasm at first, but it died down.
I wonder what country would be best? Is the rest of the world still
scared to come here to the US? Or should we go to Canada?
