[Debian-eeepc-devel] Future of this project, readiness for Wheezy

[Hendrik Boom]

On Sun, 26 Feb 2012 14:14:26 -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:

> It should be abundantly clear by now that I have just been coasting in
> my leadership role in this project, as my attention has turned to other
> aspects of Debian that interest me more. There has been no forward
> motion of the project since eeepc-acpi-scripts 1.1.12 migrated to
> testing Oct. of last year. I feel some mild guilt about this, as I think
> this subproject deserves better ... but I never promised this would be
> forever, and I think the work I've done in the Debian Live project and
> providing irc user support has a much more significant impact than I
> ever made here.
> 
> On the flip side, things just work so well on Eee PC systems in general,
> that it hasn't needed that much care in a while. If any of you are keen
> to make things better than they already are for Wheezy, please speak up!
> We need to make sure we've delivered the best Debian we can for all
> those future Wheezy stable users!
> 
> Things you can do:
> 
> - check out any existing usertagged bugs, help fix them - review &
> cleanup the wiki, particularly wrt. outdated content - review & followup
> on any mailing list queries for help that got lost in the shuffle
> - check out the eeepc-acpi-scripts package from git; is there anything
> more we need to do to make it ready for Wheezy? can we get rid of it
> entirely for Wheezy (or at least reduce it to some minimal, truly
> hardware-specific fixes)?
> - do a test install or three on your favourite eee pc hardware - file &
> help fix new bugs
> - maybe you have some other brilliant ideas for this project I haven't
> thought of :)
> 
> Ben

I really appreciate this project's work.  It enebled me to go ahead and 
buy my ASUS 1000HE eeepc, hearing that its hardware was completely Debian-
compatible (I believe it was the first to be fully supported by free 
software.

One of the useful things this community can still do now that most active
development seems to be behind it is to maintain a list of which eeepc's 
are truly compatible, as mine was.  Sort it by model number for easy 
reference, but also by date so a prospective buyer could concentrate on 
the ones likely still to be in stores.  This would of course require 
cooperation from users, who would have to be encouraged to post their 
stories.  Or is this already being carried out somewhere that I'm not 
aware of?

-- hendrik