On Thursday 04 January 2001 11:40, you wrote:
>
> The only public developer mailing list suitable for actual Red Hat
> development, for example, tends to stay fairly low traffic and
> off-topic.
I could be a little off here or just tired but I've always thought of this
list for those developing using Red Hat (a la comp.unix.sco.dev) and not
necessarily for those developing the Red Hat distro itself.
> Second, even the Red Hat developers don't post much in the way of
> ideas about the direction of the project, possible features or new
> packages, new patches, etc.; they do respond to bug reports when
> any turn up, but as far as any other real development of the Red
> Hat distro, the list is empty.
That would be a great idea. I develop on SCO and Red Hat but use Mandrake
v7.2 as desktop since they seem to package their distro better for
workstation/desktop use. Hence I monitor their mailing lists and before the
release of v7.1 (or v7.0) they put out calls on all their mailing lists for
what features users wanted and what ideas they had for the distro. They got
some really great ideas from what I read.
My input on features would be having text and/or curses based tools to mirror
the good X-windows based tools that already exist. We ship RH v6.2 systems to
many customes and maintain them via modem connections. Internally, we are
discussing whether or not (and how) to implement PPP connections to our
approx 400 clients.
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