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And some distros might +</I>>><i> still work together. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> It's worth mentioning here that what matters to us is the end-user experience. +</I>>><i> It matters more than the technical implementation. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> *** Background *** +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Nearly all distributions are slowly moving towards making it easier to deal +</I>>><i> with applications, and get information about those. The Ubuntu Software Center +</I>>><i> is a good example of work being done here. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> At the moment, many of us are working in our own corners, while we could +</I>>><i> certainly all move much faster if we worked together, especially since we're +</I>>><i> all targetting mostly the same result. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> We do want content to be provided not just by us, distributors, but also by +</I>>><i> the users: their experience with an application can inspire other users to +</I>>><i> install it too. +</I>>><i> The goals of this meeting is to see what can be put in common and harmonized +</I>>><i> between various distributions, from the end-user point of view. +</I>>><i> ----- End of quote ----- +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> The meeting will occur in Nürnberg, Germany from January 19th to 21st +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> We don't know yet what the outcome of this 3-days meeting will be, but it may +</I>>><i> be a great opportunity. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> For the mageia side, the participants will be : +</I>>><i> - Michael Scherer (misc) +</I>>><i> - Olivier Thauvin (Nanar), author of Sophie, the cross-distribution RPM +</I>>><i> database, +</I>>><i> - Samuel Verschelde (Stormi), for the mageia-app-db project. +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Best regards +</I>>><i> +</I>>><i> Samuel Verschelde +</I>><i> Great ! +</I>><i> +</I>><i> This sounds like a very good idea, such a move would be great to improve +</I>><i> interaction between distributions and divide the needed effort to +</I>><i> produce for each distribution. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> As far as I’m concerned, I’m sorry the schedule is a bit too tight for +</I>><i> me, I won’t be able to attend this meeting. Besides, the cost of the +</I>><i> ticket won’t make it possible either. +</I>><i> +</I>><i> I’m eager to know what will come out of this meeting, have a good trip ! +</I>><i> :-) +</I>><i> +</I>><i> Regards, +</I> +I really interested in that too. (But likewise can't attend.) + +Have you noticed the Mancoosi project ? +It's an experimental international project to develop means of making +software installation, and rolling back to the previous state in case of +problems, fail-proof. +They're even exploring allowing installation with ordinary user +privileges. (By considerable redundancy.) +(The downside seems that it would use a lot more disk space.) + +see www.mancoosi.org + blog.mancoosi.org +It might be useful to review before your meeting. + +And be sure to take notes, to let us in on the discussions :) + +Regards +</PRE> + + + +<!--endarticle--> + <HR> + <P><UL> + <!--threads--> + <LI>Previous message: <A HREF="003349.html">[Mageia-discuss] a cross-distribution meeting about software installers +</A></li> + <LI>Next message: <A HREF="003358.html">[Mageia-discuss] a cross-distribution meeting about software installers +</A></li> + <LI> <B>Messages sorted by:</B> + <a href="date.html#3350">[ date ]</a> + <a href="thread.html#3350">[ thread ]</a> + <a href="subject.html#3350">[ subject ]</a> + <a href="author.html#3350">[ author ]</a> + </LI> + </UL> + +<hr> +<a href="https://www.mageia.org/mailman/listinfo/mageia-discuss">More information about the Mageia-discuss +mailing list</a><br> +</body></html> |