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

[Matias Fonzo]

El 2020-09-08 18:31, Matias Fonzo escribió:
> 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.

Note that when I refer to increased security, it means that Dragora 
already has or is at now the level of security offered by commercial 
distributions such as Ubuntu, Fedora.

On performance, currently I have been compiling the packages with the 
-O2 flag, but I plan to go back to -Os for size.  I haven't noticed much 
of a difference, and I don't think there will be since the performance 
in Dragora was improved for the kernel side (-O2), Musl (which was 
optimized for performance, plus it includes a new malloc that is 
faster).

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

Recently, done:

http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora.git/commit/?id=890753674e6994954888c4fcfe605facd5eaf1b8
http://git.savannah.nongnu.org/cgit/dragora.git/commit/?id=ef6195cf0fe51f7362ca9d0b3eb246c5dfa0644b

This required introducing two more packages (musl-obstack and musl-fts) 
to provide functions not available in Musl.

> 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.  :-)