Hey all, As I'm sure you saw I'm sorta back from my vacation. 0.8.9 appears to work (more or less) and I've seen relatively few serious problems reported. I've heard from some grapevines that some folks are working on patches to add features, fix stupidities on my part etc. Thats completely cool and as Black has mentioned in the past I need to update the AUTHORS file. :) I'd like to suggest the following for the future development stuff: 1. for 1.0 (or whatever) we focus on making the limited functionality provided currently work well and sanely. This limits the number of "cool things" and it keeps from completely breaking currently running clients. Of course "current functionality" is a hard-ish thing to define. I think I wouldn't mind seeing group support be in 1.0 but not a WHOLE lot more "new" features unless they are ones which have limited pain-causing possibilities :) 2. for things beyond 1.0 I know Icon has had some recent ideas on how to make cool features appear in yum and I'm interested in pursuing those along with just making it more functional for me and those around me :) 3. I'd like to hear what other things (besides those already stated) are wanted - just to figure out what things are 1. silly, 2. painful, 3. already available but completely non-obvious. 4. I'd like to setup some way of having people get access to the cvs tree. Lets take it as read that I don't want to use sourceforge at VA. I might not mind gnu savannah but definitely not VA's sourceforge. 5. I'd like to start a listing of publicly accessible yum repositories. - just so people can find stuff they have and add them to their yum.conf's 6. list of features that have been requested: a. mirror support b. specify config file on command line c. package groups d. server side excludes e. file url support f. message dialog abstractions g. more sane "we can't do this and don't even know how" dialogs for conflict/dep resolution errors h. better progress bars (ok, so this just a feature _I_ want :) i. versioning of the headers/header.info file I think thats all I heard/saw. If I missed some let me know. I figure once 1.0 is happy/stable more people could/should hear about it and maybe that will mean more ideas suggested. So thats whats going on as far as I can see. I'd like to hear other's opinions. I'll be back to my normal life sometime around 1 or 2 tomorrow I'd bet so I might not be around in the morning but email here if you have comments. thanks -sv -- GPG Public Key: http://www.phy.duke.edu/~skvidal/skvidal.gpg
