[gobolinux-users] Roadmap for 014, Scripts, Compile, etc

[mpb]

> On 2/28/07, mpb <mpb.mail at gmail.com> wrote:
> > 3) What is the roadmap for Rootless?

On 3/1/07, Lucas C. Villa Real <lucasvr at gobolinux.org> wrote:
> Well, Rootless roadmap is basically the same. It should "just work",
> and then use the infrastructure provided by Compile and Scripts. So,
> if I would need to define a roadmap for it, I would just say "fix
> known bugs", which for now are none (all rootless bugs reported were
> fixed since 013).

        Should Rootless "just work" on:
* Mac OS X?
* FreeBSD?  DragonFlyBSD?
* Solaris?
* Cygwin?
* Etc?

        Should Rootless be described as Experimental on some of those
platforms?  What level of "just work"-ness do we want to
publicize/promise to potential users?

> > (Aside: If you want to recruit new users, these roadmaps should be
> > cleary published on the Gobo web-site.)
>
> Or in the wiki?

        Sure.  Or in the Wiki.  I'll talk more about that in a
separate thread.

> > 4) Does the Gobo devel team have a common Social Contract (a la
> > Debian), a core Philosophy (a la Gentoo and Ubuntu), a shared Goal (a
> > la openSUSE), or a shared vision of why users should choose Gobo (a la
> > Fedora)?

        My point in asking the above question is that most successful
distros publish a concise statement of self-identity.  In my opinion,
the Gobo web-site does not do this at present.

> - Why users should choose Gobo: We don't want to enforce anyone to
> use it. People should come and use because they're interested by it,
> or because they want to try something different, or because they
> feel this different organization can be of some benefit for them.

        Of course we cannot force anyone to use Gobo.  We can only
invite them.  So we want to make the web-site an attractive invitation
that will appeal to the kind of users we are looking for.

        -mpb