Hey! Second status report. It's like some sort of milestone! I'm going to keep some of the short and long term tasks in here, until we check them off. ----------------- ArchLinux Status Report, 2007-10-01 == Newsworthy Items == * Some "interesting" front page news. http://archlinux.org/news/350/ It kinda *ahem* speaks for itself. * Damir completed his Master's program I just wanted to send out a public congratulations, here. I've always thought of Damir as "the biology student", but I guess I can't do that anymore. Hooray! == Completed Tasks == * db and heimdal rebuilds These so renames were moved to testing over the weekend. Thanks a lot Andy and anyone else who participated. Relevant forum thread: http://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?id=37984 == Pending Tasks, Short Term == * New Round of Package Cleanup Let's try and get this "complete" this week. I'd like to get at least 2 or 3 of us together with Eric to go through these packages and start moving them to community or unsupported. We have an internal list for this here: https://www.archlinux.org/wiki/Repo%20Cleanup/ Please add candidates if you find them. Eric, when is a good time for you? * DVD and Additional Package ISO Lists Previous discussion has pushed us toward a solution, but we need to sit down and define what packages we explicitly want (or, rather, _don't_ want) on these images - that is, * Unified chroot build tools I failed here. Deadlines aren't my strong point. Time to redouble my efforts to get you all some fun chroot building tools! * Use vendor_perl for pacman perl packages We weren't able to get to this last week. If anyone has some free time, I'd appreciate you taking a look at this. If not, I will get to it myself closer to the end of the week. This is an easy bug to fix, it's just tedious. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8082 Any takers? Jan, you brought up concern over our perl policy earlier, are you up to the task? * Move all Arch related projects to gerolde Yet another ping here. We're still missing one or two projects which are important - archboot, some of our internal scripts, etc. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/7789 * Next ISO Release Date We're currently at testing release 0.2 of our next iso. Please test it out, for all of those interested. Tobias, can you approximate a date of release for all of us interested? http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001849.html * DB Script Rewrite Yup, this one still needs to be done. It's not critical, as we're in one of those not-broke-won't-fix stages. * Devtools updates See this thread: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001883.html There are a few complaints with devtools I want to address shortly. If you have any other pending issues, let me know, and I will see what I can do. == Pending Tasks, Long Term == * Pacman 3.1 Release We have a decent amount of issues to be closed in the 3.1 release. Please take a look and see if you have any input. http://bugs.archlinux.org/task/8109 Sadly, my time is (heh) fractured into many different things now, but one of these days Dan and I are gonna sit down and bang out a large chunk of these. * Official pacbuild usage Jason, could we get a "heads up" here - just some sort of direction for people who would be interested * 'Continuous Integration' setup / machine Since the last status report, I got two offers for hardware to run a CI machine, which is great. Volunteers always make us over on this side of the fence happy. Maybe when I get time to breathe, I'll bang out a prelim script... a man can dream, right? * Multiple Maintainers on the Dashboard * Multiple Architectures on the Dashboard Damir lumped these two together and called it "modernizing" our dashboard - which I like. I guess, what we really need, is more people with "their hands in the code". Any volunteers? Who wants to learn Django? * Architecture Independent Repos Relevant thread: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001829.html This was discussed and we all seem to agree that it is a good idea to maintain the packages which aren't specific to any one architecture in only one repo, rather than maintaining 2 packages. Still, this needs some coordinated changes to scripts and pacman and the like - fairly minor stuff, but perhaps we can sneak it in in the 3.1 pacman release. * ArchCon 2009: Big Baaad Idea Yep, I'm still riding this one. A big ol' ArchCon would be fun. We're all in totally different parts of the world, so we never get to see each other. http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-September/001614.html == Bugs and Issues == * X input lockups This relates to the Xorg in testing, and may be XFCE related, but it appears important enough to mention here: http://archlinux.org/pipermail/arch-dev-public/2007-October/001899.html ----------------- So there we go. Status report numero dos down. Lots of this is copied from the last one, and see, that's on purpose. This list will keep growing and growing until we start closing out some of these issues. Thanks for your continued work, guys. -- Aaron