[Yast4debian-devel] Personal status report

[Ramon Acedo]

Hello,
El sáb, 24-09-2005 a las 22:37 +0200, Mario Fux escribió:
> Am Mittwoch, 21. September 2005 11.29 schrieb Ramon Acedo:

> > just suggest a weekday or Weekend you can.
> 
> This belongs to the IRC meeting, right ;-)?

Yes :-)

> 
> > What if we'd propose a little paper argumenting why porting
> > YaST2 to debian based distros (in Spain there are some local
> > distros paid by public administrations).
> 
> And the city of Munich and the city of Vienna are using Debian derivates too. 
> The ideas sounds interesting.
> 
It becomes clear how interesting it would be.

> > in it and making it to work in some local distros (from Spain,
> > Switzerland, Germany, USA...), most of these local distros are
> > Debian derivarives, and co-funded by the administrations.
> >
> > Would Novell/SuSE help in convincing them? I am an evangelist
> > here in Catalonia and I can reach some people at the top of the
> > Catalonian administration in the Information Society Departament.
> 
> I'm not the optimist for the Swiss administration but hey, there are other 
> groups of interested people who we could talk to.

> Stano, Klaus: Do you think there is some chance that we could convince some 
> people inside Novell/SuSE who are able to speak some money? Just a small or 
> even tiny chance is enough?

I was not talking about money, just about official support
from Novell/SuSE, I mean, I'd like to be able to meet with
people in the administration and tell them that Novell/SuSE
is interested in collaborating in the project the way it's
being done (Stano answering everything, irc meetings,
etc :-) but with an 'official' feeling.

> And there is Mark Shuttleworth and Ubuntu/Canonical too. We just need someone 
> who develops a GTK frontend for YaST2.
But firstly a port to Debian. 
> 
> Stano, Klaus again: Could you give some raw time estimations for the 
> development of another (GTK) frontend for YaST2?
> 
And again we'd have to calculate how many hours we'd need to
port the most important modules (and define which are
important) as well as how we could define a way of keeping
the ports updated with the new versions of YaST (Stano said
in a post that in SuSE 10.0/OpenSuSE porting should be
easier).


Ramon