Google Summer of Code

[Adam Gołębiowski]

On Sat, Mar 03, 2007 at 07:42:20PM +0100, Daniel Mróz wrote:
> On Saturday 03 of March 2007 02:19:09 Adam Gołębiowski wrote:
> > > > * an installer that does not look like one from Slackware 3.0 age
> > > Maybe we should start with an installer that works ;)
> > > There's nothing wrong with text-mode, light installer. I think that
> > > instalka was the best installer ever. Simple, fast and working
> > > everywhere, anywhere.
> > areq's rescuecd is the best one, but I realize it may be the best one for
> > me, not necessary for everyone. Having a modern, gui installer wouldn't
> > hurt.
> Wouldn't, but I think we should fix existing text mode installer and add some 
> new features to it (like multimachine, fully automated network installation). 

And end up with an installer that almost noone would use - experienced
users will prefer rescuecd, while less experienced would rather choose
another distro, which has a better installer. I know of a few people
whose choice was based on how easy is to install given distro.

> > > > * pld stats
> [...]
> > > Naaah. Nobody will ever use it. Waste of time IMHO.
> > why?
> Because it's one more package that is absolutely not needed for proper system 
> operation and because it looks like a spyware ;)  Besides, it is a great 
> false-positive generator. For example, I'm installing many packages just to 
> check what are they doing and is it useful for me. If not, I simply remove 
> them. I'm sure that many other users are doing the same.

Then you won't install it. Others will. Sure it's not going to give us
correct numbers, but at least we could have rough statistics about
packages' popularity (like whether gnome or desktop is preferred).

Debian has popcon [1], and they don't complain about their statistics
being inadequate. I know we are not as big as Debian is, but still, such
data could be useful and for sure, it won't hurt to have them.

[1] http://popcon.debian.org/

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