[Texmacs-dev] Re: TeXmacs and Redhat (fwd)

[Joris van der Hoeven]

It seems that they have set up a voting system for including programs
in the main distribution of Mandrake. Could someone figure out how
this works? If we can all vote, then maybe we should do so :^)))

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Date: Fri, 29 Nov 2002 11:14:02 +0100 (CET)
From: Denis HAVLIK <address@hidden>
To: sebastian sauer <address@hidden>
Cc: Joris van der Hoeven <address@hidden>, address@hidden
Subject: Re: TeXmacs and Redhat

On Thu, 28 Nov 2002, sebastian sauer wrote:

+ > Notice that we *are* already in Mandrake Cooker.
+ i know. but i actually do not understand why it does not get into the
+ mainline distribution. texmacs is a fantastic & rock solid piece of
+ software. denis, count this as my vote for texmacs inclusion in mdk.

Well, since we have this RPM-voting system on Club, "included in the main
distro" isn't a matter of life and death anymore, and I bet that will
eventually influence the main distro.

+ > I am also in touch with Lenny Cartier from Mandrakesoft,
+ > who does not reply quickly,
+  :^) you seem to be quite lucky. last time i wanted to help mdk with
+ their pptp packages. since lenny was (is ?) maintainer i mailed him...
+ ...never got any reply, and i wouldn't be too surprised if this buggy old
+ stuff is still packaged in mdk 9.0

Eer... Want a VIP account on MandrakeClub and a
possibility to upload stuff with RPM-voting system? .-)

I'll tell you what I want to do next (within a few weeks/months): offer
Club members a possibility to run a cronjob that sends back the info about
programs they actually run on the system.

Once this is running, and assuming that folks actually want to use the
system, I'll insist that the stats i gather must be used to decide what's
important and what not. So you would have the following types of things:

1) ABSOLUTE MUST: programs which good percentage of users use on a regular
basis.
2) VERY IMPORTANT: programs that many people use ocassionally and those
that some people use on a daily basis.
3) LESS IMPORTANT: programs that only a few people use, and even they
don't use very often.
4) JUNK: programs nobody ever uses.

This is just a simple idea, but I presume you can interpolate...

cu
        Denis
PS: I'm thinking of a serial of "tutorials", similar to ones Phil did on
MandrakeLinux site on MandrakeClub, and I'm thinking of making these
tutorials readable by everyone. If you want to do one about TeXMacs, you
are welcome. I don't care which language, as long as I can understand
the text, and we ahve enough folks who are likely to translate the text,
so English, German, French or Dutch would be fine.
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