ALFS or ALFS-NG?

Dear ALFS Maintainers:

First, greetings to all the smart people here.  I am a big fan of the 
LFS project and its related projects.

My name is Chris Punches.  I am the BDFL for the Dark Horse Linux 
Project, which is responsible for a Linux distribution generated by a 
project called Pyrois, currently.  Pyrois is able to draw from the LFS 
documentation to a degree of fidelity due to the way in which its 
automation component (called Rex) is designed and configured.

I have some questions that I believe would be in both LFS', ALFS' and my 
own projects' interests for me to ask of you:

*Q1)  --*

First, I am not clear on if the ALFS project is active or not.  I may 
have made an assumption that it isn't.   Please let me know if it is 
active.  In case it's not, however, Pyrois currently draws from the 
11.3-systemd LFS book with a degree of fidelity in a much simpler way 
than what I have observed of the approach ALFS uses.

So, I was wondering, did somebody here want to fork the current version 
of Pyrois as a new version of ALFS to re-energize the project?

I would need to do a round of "cleaning up" to prepare it for that but 
I'm more than happy to do so.

If so, soon would be a good time as I intend to build something else 
entirely on it from here, so I think taking a forked version from 
current or close to current would be appropriate.

If no one is interested, no pressure -- as an alternative I am 
considering naming a fork of the the current Pyrois project as "ALFS-NG" 
(ALFS NextGen), in much the same ways syslog-ng and crosstool-ng named 
their projects and for much the same reasons.    Would that be more 
appropriate?  I am soliciting feedback on which approach to take.

For my own input on it, I will say that if I end up forking Pyrois to 
create an "ALFS-NG" unaffiliated with ALFS or LFS it would probably fall 
behind the LFS book quickly as I just would not have the time keep it up 
to date while building Dark Horse Linux out as a product so it would 
actually be more desirable to me at least if someone took over a fork of 
it.  I'm sure I'd learn a great deal from its commit log as well, and I 
view all these projects' existences as important educational tools for 
future generations interested in the genesis of linux distributions. 
There aren't alot of places to learn how to do this that I've found.

It should also be mentioned that in this projects' hands, a Pyrois fork 
as ALFS would immediately find itself in more capable hands from a 
coding and compiler knowledge angle.  It is simple because a caveperson 
wrote it and hammered it with intent for a few years.  That is perhaps 
good for foundation, but, in more experienced hands would likely be more 
able to grow.

*Q2) --*

Second, in the interests of good will, do you have any preferences for 
attribution, or would you need more information?

I wasn't certain if this is the right venue to be asking these types of 
questions, so I thought I'd reach out.  Please let me know where I 
should ask if this is not the place.

*Q3) --*

Wholly separate from the above, I have removed the requirement for 
mounted storage media and Pyrois generates a livecd ISO, with a writable 
root filesystem using overlayfs.  That would deviate markedly from the 
LFS book, so, I thought it might be useful to mention it in case any of 
that was something wanting to be integrated over to LFS/ALFS?

*Q4) --*

I intend to use librpm and a dnf/yum package ecosystem with build hosts 
in the next steps of Dark Horse Linux / Pyrois in the fork not used by 
either ALFS or ALFS-NG.  Advice on design/approach would be well received.

*Q5) --*

Have you folks done any research on building an installer ISO that I can 
see?  I have some ideas on an approach, but, I'm still debating which 
one fits into the broader strategy for DHLP.

*Q6) --*

Is there any interest in cross-project collaboration?  If so, obviously 
I'd want to take it over to the mailing list hosted by Dark Horse Linux 
(details are on the website).  While not yet a funded or connected 
project yet, I have high hopes for it.


With my sincere gratitude, and hungry eyes looking to the future,

Christopher Michael Punches
BDFL
Dark Horse Linux Project
www.darkhorselinux.org

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