On Wed, Sep 22, 2004 at 09:01:38AM +0200, Christian Perrier wrote: > As I was alone for one night in a Toulouse hotel, without any Internet > access, and as the "choosers" (lang/country) currently reached a quite > stable status, I took some time for working on some post-sarge > developments for this part of the installer. > > All recent activity on the "choosers" has shown that the split between > language and country choosers has more bad consequences than good > effects. > > So, I began working on the merge of both to a "localechooser" package > which could, in the future, replace languagechooser and countrychooser > with a few more features (such as the possibility to choose between > available locales for a given language+country combination). > > This is highly prospective work which I won't work very hardly > on...because the major goal ATM is focusing on the stable release. > > However, I have reached a point where a "working" localechooser > package exists, which I've been able to use as a replacement for > language and countrychooser. > > I want to keep track of this work so I need to commit it. > > However, I think it would be better to have another place than > "packages" for this just to avoid potential confusion to newcomers > (and also to avoid annoying translators with not-yet-ready > packages). Such a place could be used for all new developments and > prospective packages. > > So, before commiting my work, I'd like to have some input from other > d-i contributors on this subject. > > Branching could be a possibility, I'm not really sure if it would be > appropriate in that case.
What about creating under packages a directory named prospective? When the prospective package is mature enough, it can move one directory up. Cheers Geert Stappers
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