Roadmap
The OpenPKG roadmap for the next one to three years include the following major projects:
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Corporation OpenPKG GmbH
| Goal: |
Enlargement of the corporation OpenPKG GmbH
by aquisition of additional customers to protect
the OpenPKG Project financial backing.
|
| Justification: | Monetary protection, manpower sponsoring. |
| Duration: | 24 months |
| Effort: | 3 man-years |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse>
Thomas Lotterer <thl> |
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Association OpenPKG Foundation e.V.
| Goal: |
Enlargement of the association OpenPKG Foundation e.V.
by aquisition of additional members to protect the OpenPKG
Project development.
|
| Justification: | Monetary protection, manpower availability. |
| Duration: | 24 months |
| Effort: | 52 man-days |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse>
Thomas Lotterer <thl> |
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OpenPKG Marketing
| Goal: |
Creating more awareness in the Unix community for OpenPKG
and especially working off the OpenPKG presentation to newbies.
|
| Justification: | Easier entrance, larger community. |
| Duration: | 12 months |
| Effort: | 52 man-days |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse> |
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OpenPKG Book
| Goal: |
Writing of an OpenPKG book which finally provides a concise
and clearly structured all-in-one documentation of the entire
OpenPKG world. The typical audiences OpenPKG users, OpenPKG
administrators, OpenPKG developers and OpenPKG aficionados
have to be addressed.
|
| Justification: | Better documentation. |
| Duration: | 24 months |
| Effort: | 4 man-months |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse>
Thomas Lotterer <thl> |
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OpenPKG Registry
| Goal: |
Improving the OpenPKG Registry registry.openpkg.org by
adding additional features, improving the style and speeding up
its processing. Additionally, merge "OpenPKG Foundation fellows"
and "OpenPKG Project fellows".
|
| Justification: | Increase community acceptance. |
| Duration: | 6 months |
| Effort: | 1 man-month |
| Contact: | Thomas Lotterer <thl> |
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OpenPKG Affiliation Service Environment (ASE)
| Goal: |
Improving the OpenPKG Affiliation Service Enironment (ASE) registry.openpkg.org/ase by
adding additional features and speeding up
its processing.
|
| Justification: | Increase community acceptance. |
| Duration: | 6 months |
| Effort: | 1 man-month |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse> |
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OpenPKG Deployment Toolkit
| Goal: |
From scratch development of a newly designed and more sophisticated
toolkit for the automatic deployment of OpenPKG in large
scale setups. This especially has to provide us with a more sophisticated
dependency resolver, a client/server architecture for attaching/detaching
to target hosts and for central management.
|
| Justification: | Resolve long-standing deficiencies, enlarge community. |
| Duration: | 6 months |
| Effort: | 6 man-months |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse>
Thomas Lotterer <thl> |
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RPM 4.4
| Goal: |
Finally upgrade OpenPKG from RPM version 4.2 to version 4.4 to
gain from its numerious bugfixes and increased portability.
Additionally, RPM 4.4 has some new features (like an SQLite
backend) which could be interesting for OpenPKG, too.
|
| Justification: | Bugfixes, Portability. |
| Duration: | 2 months |
| Effort: | 4 man-weeks |
| Contact: | Ralf S. Engelschall <rse> |
