[Debian-NP-Commits] r105 - trunk/docs/report

[micah]

Author: micah-guest
Date: Thu Jun 24 18:42:05 2004
New Revision: 105

Modified:
   trunk/docs/report/04techwork
Log:
I've begun to tighten up zufus' amazing work into the final product,
cleaning up the english a little and adding in some more details.



Modified: trunk/docs/report/04techwork
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--- trunk/docs/report/04techwork	(original)
+++ trunk/docs/report/04techwork	Thu Jun 24 18:42:05 2004
@@ -7,15 +7,32 @@
   --------------------
     . CDD document
 
-    CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) is a project born few months ago
-    that aims to build an infrastucture available to who wants to
-    customize Debian to his own needings. Actually there are many Custom
-    Debian Project (official and not). Among the official ones, we
-    recall Skolelinux/Debian-Edu, Debian Multimedia Distribution (DEMUDI),
-    Debian-Med, Debian-Br-CDD (a portoguese version of Debian) and our
-    project, Debian-NP.
 
-    Creating a CDD means foundamentally to solve some (or all) of the
+    The CDD (Custom Debian Distribution) project was born a few months
+	back whose aim is to build infrastucture and documentation to make
+	building customized Debian distributions both easy as well as
+	standardized for the purposes of mutual benefit. The first
+	Customized Debian distribution (Debian Junior) came out in the
+	beginning of 2000, afterwards a number of like-minded projects
+	like it followed, such as Skolelinux (now named Debian-Edu),
+	Debian-Med, Debian Multimedia Distribution (DEMUDI), Debian-BR (a
+	Brasilian localized distribution), and of course Debian-NP. During
+	Debconf3 in Oslo, several developers who are involved in the
+	different customized Debian distributions got together and found
+	that instead of individually working on similar problems and not
+	sharing the results, that there was a strong potential for mutual
+	benefit. At the OSWC conference in Malaga a workshop on this issue
+	took place, resulting in the beginning of a paper which describes
+	the philosophy of Custom Debian Distributions, and the technique
+	which is used to manage those projects, and good overview of how
+	this is important to the vitality and quality of Debian a a whole.
+
+	The main goal of a customized Debian distribution is to enhance
+	the role of Debian as the missing link between upstream software
+	developers and end users.
+
+
+    Creating a CDD means fundamentally to solve some (or all) of the
     following points:
 
     o) Package selection