[pacman-dev] Package signing again....

Allan McRae allan at archlinux.org
Wed Jul 1 07:45:09 EDT 2009


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




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