Rahul Sundaram wrote:
Fedora core 3 - Feature requests
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I am not sure whether it is too late but I will post
my thoughts on the upcoming fedora core 3 release.
It's not late. The schedule has only been released two days ago.
Should change the last one to "All your favorite software which has a restrictive license and/or problems with the DMCA"Things that will not be there ------------------------------------
Since many people using bring this up I am adding this upfront to avoid unnecessary stuff. All these have potential legal issues and probably will not be included
Mp3 playback DVD playback Mono NTFS support All your favorite software :-)
This is not simple. Many people have asked this , but so far no one started working on comps.xml... And this is no simple task...Feature Requests ---------------------
* Organisation of packages
CD reorganisation to realise the goals of seperating
the packages as core, alternatives and extras. This
would mean that Fedora core would just be 1 CD where
we will get the defaults for many stuff. The rest
would be available in other CD's not part of core.
Those who download all the CD's will have no
difference and will be able to choose the stuff they
like instead of the defaults
If people start now , maybe in FC4 or FC5 the job will be finished.
DocumentationInitially , the docs for RHL 9.0 still aply for FC. But some changes are needed.. I cant tell for sure , but I bet that people willing to help are welcome.... More details in http://www.fedora.redhat.com/projects/docs/ .
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Basic docs like Installation and reference guides.
Why not place some new reports on bugzilla about this? I never cared about the defaults , as I change them so fast I dont even have the time to get used to them :)Security ----------
Disable as much as services by default as possible or
provide an option during installation to do it the way
the user wants with good defaults.
If you think some of the current services enabled could (and should) be disabled by default , just explain why and probably they'll be changed for the next version.
No idea about those.. You should ask this to the redhat folks... But I believe that the packaging guidelines will probably fit those used by fedora.us.Community -------------
Open up cvs/subversion access to packages
Include a wiki
Provide packaging guidelines Allow volunteers to include packages. Get upstream developers involved in bug reports and
packaging if possible
Incorporate the fedora planet for blogs
Provide links to all fedora related sites
MiscFor a list of things planned (and what people have asked) , check the threads at http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00056.html and http://www.redhat.com/archives/fedora-devel-list/2004-July/msg00068.html .
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* Include a groupware suite - Kolab ?
* Command line equivalents to system-config-* for what
is missing
* System-config-packages should have an option to
install third party packages
* Udev - Enabled by default ( Gnome volume manager
requires it, good thing)
* SELinux - Enabled by default ( needs good exposure)
* NX Support other than VNC - see
http://dot.kde.org/1088363665/ ( Better speed, more
features)
* Include clamav for scanning windows viruses (Useful
for Hetrogenous networks and web hosting)
-- Pedro Macedo
