[sabayon] Starting to map out a roadmap for sabayon.

[Scott Balneaves <sbalneav legalaid mb ca>]

Hello all lovers of edited profiles,

I'm starting to think a bit ahead to what we can accomplish for sabayon in the
next 6 months.  Now that we've got something that (all feedback appears to
indicate) is functioning, we can start blue-sky dreaming.

Here's what I've got on my hitlist:

1) Group apply.  Federico's already integrated those patches into the git tree,
so we should have that when the next release comes out.
2) Updated documentation.  I'd like to re-vamp and bring the doco up to date,
in docbook format.  I need to have a look at what gnome's doing for docs these
days, but IDEALLY, we'd have a "help" menu off the editor screen with a
bog-standard fully-translated gnome help entry.  this would be ideal, in my
mind, but I'm interested in other people's thoughts.
3) re-vamping the debuglog architechture.  Because of the way sabayon does
logging, by default, the logs are... not very helpful.  Then we run into the
old problem of trying to step a (potentially inexperienced) user through
creating a sabayon-debug-log.conf file in ~root, etc.  My FIRST idea would be
to turn on all logging by default, but we log to a ring buffer in memory.  if
we get an error of any kind, we then cut an actual log file.  But if the
session exits normally, we do the "unix" thing and exit silently.  Again,
thoughts?
4) Better storage handling.  We need to start fully handling things like perms,
ownership, etc, in the zip file.  we'll have to start storing more info in the
metadata file.  Some kind of voodoo magic's going to be needed for
sabayon-apply, seeing as how it runs as the user, but an admin might want to
put root-owned file in a users home dir.
5) A nice code cleanup.  We could handle more exceptions gracefully, and
there's some room for general code-cleanup and documentation.

That's what's bleeping on my radar.  Any other bugaboos out there for people?

Scott

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