Re: Financial allocation poll stage 3

Florent Daigniere <[email protected]> Sat, 20 Aug 2016 18:53:50 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.network.freenet.devel
Message-ID	<[email protected]>

On Sat, 2016-08-20 at 12:41 -0400, Steve Dougherty wrote:
> On 08/02/2016 06:47 PM, [email protected] wrote:
> > 
> > Hereby we begin the 3rd stage of the financial allocation poll.
> 
> I'm surprised there's nothing in here about improving packaging or
> installers. I thought I added it during the earlier stages, but I
> guess
> not. I think those are very important - were I not already part of
> the
> project given a jar to install it I wouldn't download it. Our OS X
> installer is good, and our Windows installer is basically okay, but
> our
> support for other platforms is not native packages, which is bad. I'd
> like to have a Debian/Ubuntu package to offer at least. I've kept 63
> points unallocated; I'd like to put those toward improving Linux
> packaging to the point that we can offer it for download. I couldn't
> get
> LibreOffice to export a readable CSV so I've attached a PDF.
> 
> Additionally, I think many of us - myself included - had been
> approaching this as "what do we want xor to do?" I think we should
> look
> into whether alternative people to xor make sense, and to that end
> Stephen Oliver (mrsteveman) has expressed interest. He's already
> written
> the new OS X installer and tray application, has been contributing to
> documentation and user support, and I've found him great to work
> with.
> Thoughts?
> 

I disagree with "the windows installer is basically okay". We don't
even support 64bit JVMs!

But apart from that, I agree with everything else and would support
getting Steven on the project's payroll.

Florent
PS: mailman has probably stripped the said PDF :)

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