Am Sonntag, 7. November 2004 15.32 schrieb Jaldhar H. Vyas: Good morning
First of all. The further discussion for the porting work will be consolidated on the debian-desktop lists only. > > Abstract: > > I search a person (or more than one) who is interested to port Yast2 from > > Novell/SuSE to Debian. I'd like to spend some money and/or hardware for > > this task (I can't spend that much because I'm a student who lives from > > grants) and perhaps some organizational help. > > Dear Mario, > > I was until recently the Debian maintainer of webmin/usermin. I have > filed an ITP (Intent to Package) for Yast2. And I intend to look into it, > the hold up at the moment is I am expecting the birth of a baby boy almost Oh, that's nice. And that's more important than some software. I wish you and your wife all the best for the birth of your baby boy. > any day now. Certainly financial help would speed things up a little but > thats the main block. > > The first time I brought this up there were concerns about the license > iirc but according to a Novell rep I talked to once, they do intend it to Which Novell rep? I thought the license of YaST2 is the GNU GPL. > be used by other distros so we can hopefully count on them to help resolve Good to here. I hope they are interested in code to make YaST2 more portable. > any problems. I doubt if they would contribute any money though but > asking is worth a try. That's the same way I think. > It's going to take a _lot_ of work to adapt yast2 to Debian, more than > just tweaking a few config files. Ok, but what means "a _lot_ of work" in a timely fashion: - One-man-year? - A few weeks of hard work? I think, YaST2 is quite modular. This way the porting could be in levels. Say, first the skeleton/framework and then the single modules. So we could show something working relatively soon? > > This (or a similar) email goes to the following mailinglists (I'm > > subscribed to all of them): > > - debian-desktop [3] > > - debian-devel [4] > > - kalyxo and kalyxo-devel [5] & [6] > > - debian-cdd [7] > > We should probably consolidate discussion on, say, debian-desktop. See above. Thx Mario
