1:28 PM - ViewVC, mports, CURRENT
I just added viewvc to the website. You may use this in addition to cvsweb.
We've had a lot of mport activity this week. In particular, several dependancies were fixed for Gnome, mono was updated to 1.2.5.2 (and it's doc port), and crash@ is working on bugzilla 3.x. There are several new ports and portlint fixes.
I'm in the process of doing some merges from FreeBSD in our CURRENT for things we can't work on ourselves at the moment. This will be the last "large" merge from FreeBSD. We largely ignored certain aspects of the system as we were focusing on magus, mports, and general setup. After the merge is complete, we plan to diversify this project a great deal more. The decision to do this merge was a tough one and in the end it came down to a poll among developers. Most of us felt that we could benefit from improved hardware support, updated linux emulation, and jemalloc. Another words, we're using some of the good aspects of FreeBSD 7.0, but not the whole thing.
Assume CURRENT is broken and will not compile until November. That's my estimate on this. Upon completion, I plan to focus on the installer (finally). Our next anticipated release is 0.2.1-RELEASE for sparc64, followed by 0.3-RELEASE sometime next year. We hope to make 0.3 the last in the 0.x releases. That would mean a 1.0 release in 2010. If we're ahead of the curve, 0.3 might become 1.0. This comes down to usability and reliability.
Most of the requests after 0.2.1 have been for improved hardware support and changes to the gui setup. (graphical desktop) I've also had a few people complain about the 3 CDs. We're considering switching to DVD releases in the future (except sparc64). I'd like feedback on hardware support, and how many people still need CDs on i386 (x86). I think it's safe to go dvd with amd64 as newer machines tend to read DVDs.
The other request I've been getting is for a new live dvd. I plan on working on that in November as well. The installer project requires a livecd or livedvd anwyay. I've heard requests for GNUstep and KDE live dvds. Is there anything else users would like on them?