Hi, If you actually want a student to look at your proposal, please put it on the wiki :) http://wiki.debian.org/gsoc
Cheers Arthur On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 1:32 PM, Petter Reinholdtsen <p...@hungry.com> wrote: > > [Julian Andres Klode] >> Ubuntu developed a tool called 'jockey' for installing hardware >> drivers. There is an ITP for it in Bug #436722. Jockey is in my >> opinion the best place to do something like this. I CCed Martin >> Pitt, the developer of jockey (and quoted the remaining parts of the >> email in case he did not read the original one). > > Yes, it was a nice tool. I tested it for the first time a few weeks > ago. > > I noticed in #436722 that Martin Pitt was positive to shared > maintenance. What is holding you from uploading the package to > Debian? The ITP haven't seen any progress for a long time. :) > > Note that I GUI tool would be nice for the non-free stuff, but would > be a bad idea for other hardware specific packages like RAID > administration tools. For this, I would like to integrate something > like discover-pkginstall into the hwsetup package in debian-installer, > to make sure hardware specific packages are automatically installed > when it make sense. > > Happy hacking, > -- > Petter Reinholdtsen > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org > Archive: http://lists.debian.org/2flhbnrxxkm....@login2.uio.no > > -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-devel-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/u2vc09ddae71004040437g619dacddq65461829b49fb...@mail.gmail.com
