unohu wrote:
IMHO it is a lack of direction rather than lack of man power. If there is a correct road map/consensus of what/how we want to implement, i am sure there are few persons here(including me) who would like to see this implemented and are ready to work on this.
I understand that the current pacman devs are quite busy at the moment with next 3.3 release, but if they can come up with a higher level design of what needs to be implemented, we can start working on the boring part of coding and other details :) .
This will also remove the uncertainty of whether the patches will get accepted or will need a complete rework after spending a lot of time on this.
Well, start writing a wiki page about how this should be implemented and request comments. A rough starting point are already given on the git branch and additional patches mentioned in the roadmap wiki (http://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Pacman_Roadmap). Allan