Re: [Gnewsense-dev] Testing parkes

[Sam Geeraerts]

Pierre Garinot wrote:
> Thanks for the answer.
> By the way, i'm not sure how i should answer on mailing lists... Sorry, i'm
> not used to it (i've always been afraid of polluting my mailbox). Should i
> answer only to gnewsense-dev, or both, as i do now?

Just answer to the list only (unless you suspect that the one you're 
replying to is not on the list (anymore)).

> Concerning parkes, you got the point. I use gnewsense since some time now,
> but being a very old debian addict i was looking for the same based on
> debian instead of ubuntu.
> I discovered metad was not maintained anymore and so i started to make my
> own distrib, until i heard about parkes.

Less maintained is a better choice of words. It's only active for mipsel 
(Yeeloong) currently.

> So, long story short, instead of making my own distrib, i prefer working on
> a project that already have some maturity and active members.
>
> As for my skills... Well, c++, php, html, bash, perl, system
> administration...
> I also know a little (or more) about python, javascript, c, asm, zsh,
> network administration, network/system security...
> I'm using linux since about 10 years now, and use all my free time for
> coding various stuff, often useless :) (or not?).

I'm sure we can take advantage of you (and I mean that in a good way ;) 
) somehow.

> My ultimate goal is to make a distrib i could use in my camping-car (is that
> the right word in english?), that means intuitive interface on one or
> several touch-screens, providing easy accessibility to multimedia (video,
> audio, photos...), net (wifi, browser..), communication (social sites
> interface, chat, voip...), gps...
>
> So, where do i start? Any bzr or other kind of bts from where i could get
> parkes?

We keep the (unfinished) scripts that will be used to set up and 
maintain Parkes at in Bazaar [1]. Also have a look at our bug reports 
[2] and task list [3], or even Debian's bug reports [4].

Feel free to ask questions and make suggestions here or in 
#gnewsense-dev. We want to help you help us.

[1] bzr://bzr.savannah.gnu.org/gnewsense/parkes/
[2] https://savannah.nongnu.org/bugs/?group=gnewsense
[3] http://www.gnewsense.org/DevelopmentTeam
[4] http://bugs.debian.org/