[Dragora-members] Roadmap for Dragora 3.0 -beta2?

[Matias Fonzo]

Hi Folks!,

Sorry for the delay with this email.  As some of you already know, a new 
son was born (Federico).  Not to mention that I've been trying to get 
settled in a new part of the house, I'm still on the subject of painting 
and other things.  Adding to the Pandemic sometimes complicates things.  
In spite of all this, I always try to give continuity to the project.  
:-)

The baby is already 2 months old and some days, in those months I have 
improved the chroot environment, because if you entered with the x86_64 
architecture for the i586 architecture bootstrap, it gave the wrong 
architecture.  This was solved for the package names but not internally, 
important.

I was working hard and making changes to the installer, bugs or 
improvements suggested by Michael Siegel.  In Qi, we now have version 
2.1 with a better interface and behavior.  :-)

Currently Dragora is moving to GCC10, there are things that don't work 
or compile, so I'm trying to solve those issues, for now I've started at 
00-core.order.  Previously I have been improving Dragora's performance 
and security.

In the course I am replacing some unplanned things, like the libelf 
library by the real elfutils.

Also, I will see of introducing IWD (the Intel Wireless Daemon) to 
improve connman and to offer better option for the user at the time of 
connecting to Internet.

For the -beta2 you have to complete Trinity Desktop by adding a web 
browser.  Seamonkey, or the libre version of this, would be fine.  If 
anyone has more information (to refresh) about this, please write.  :-)

Some adjustments have to be made in the Dragora installer so that it can 
search for packages, series and offer them to the user for installation. 
 At the moment I think I will omit the selection of package-by-package, 
since there were several changes for Qi and package names, you have to 
put a lot of detail and attention, energy to make this part go well.  I 
think it's more than enough that the user is offered a complete 
installation, or can at least select the series of packages, since the 
packages can be removed later.. at least for now.

I would like to improve the support in Mesa, the drivers it offers 
(radeonsi), which needs LLVM.  That the graphics part does not work in a 
libre distribution can be a bit frustrating...

I think that updating everything and incorporating more complete things 
and making the modifications mentioned and that correspond, we can 
already have the -beta2.  It sounds easy, but it implies a task.  I hope 
everything goes well.

Also, I take this opportunity to touch on the theme of the website, I 
know that Michael is preparing some important changes in the navigation 
menu, but I would like to see if we can add some content, for example, 
add the announcements of the releases of Qi, and start making a FAQ.  
Try to collect the questions that are asked on IRC, or ask new general 
but important questions.

Any help is welcome.  :-)