[Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx

[Jonathan Wilkes]

It's nice to see a plan of basic infrastructure work
and example scripts up to 0.4.0, but that's a mysterious and large jump
to 1.0.0 when you project FBX will be "usable by non-technical users".

Regardless of time frame, I predict when something like 0.4.0 is reached
Zeno's paradox will appear to happen: FBX will then be almost halfway
to the goal of "usable by non-technical users", but with another
mysterious jump between version 1 and the closest version number
not exceeding it.


-Jonathan


----- Original Message -----
> From: Jonas Smedegaard <dr at jones.dk>
> To: freedombox-discuss at lists.alioth.debian.org
> Cc: 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 20, 2012 1:27 PM
> Subject: Re: [Freedombox-discuss] apt-get install fbx
> 
> Quoting JOSEFSSON Erik (2012-11-14 18:55:19)
>>  Just a very general question: What does it take (in detailed steps) to 
>>  get from where fbx is today to apt-get install fbx?
> 
> FreedomBox (arguably) exist today in version 0.1 (and some additional 
> progress beyond that), but not in a long-term maintainable form which 
> (arguably) means it must be fully and officially part of Debian.
> 
> A crude answer to your question: It takes a single (rather large) step 
> of someone converting freedom-maker into a Debian package.
> 
> Here's a transcript from my crystal ball (listed like Changelog of an 
> actual package, timestamps and author deliberately left out):
> 
> 
> freedombox 1.0.0
> 
>   * First user-friendly release: "Boring Box".
>     + Provides Jabber service.
>     + Provides privacy-oriented web proxy service.
>     + Usable by non-technical users.
>     + Works on DHCP-administered and IPv4ALL networks
>       (without voodoo: does *not* penetrate firewalls).
> 
> freedombox 0.4.0
> 
>   * Depend on recent privoxy. Enable paranoid setting by
>     default. Thanks to James Vasile for his work on getting
>     his forked package merged upstream to official Debian
>     package.
>   * Fix adapt and reload ejabberd when network changes
>     (e.g. switching between IPv4ALL and DHCP-provided ip).
> 
> freedombox 0.3.3
> 
>   * More bugfixes to idempotency of postinst script.
> 
> freedombox 0.3.2
> 
>   * Fix install routines when reinstalling package while
>     config files exist (e.g. from older non-purged install).
> 
> freedombox 0.3.1
> 
>   * Setup Jabber service during install, Thanks to ejabberd
>     and avahi package maintainers for improving flexibility
>     of (re)configuring those package automatically.
>   * Simplify jabber example script to only setup web client.
> 
> freedombox 0.3.0
> 
>   * Depend on avahi-autoipd, ejabberd, apache2 and jwchat.
>   * Add example script to setup Jabber service reachable
>     over Multicast DNS, both from native XMPP clients and
>     included web client.
> 
> freedombox 0.2.1
> 
>   * Bugfix release for included example scripts.
> 
> freedombox 0.2.0
> 
>   * Initial official packaging release.
>   * Uses Semantic Versioning (see <http://semver.org/>)
>     (minor version 1 skipped to avoid confusion with prior
>     Foundation non-package release).
>   * Virtually empty package: intended to depend on needed code
>     projects, but these first need to be packaged themselves.
>   * Includes example scripts for the local user to manually
>     download and compile those code projects not yet packaged.
> 
> 
> 
> Hopefully there will be even more releases before 1.0.0 to include more 
> of the work currently shipped by Nick Daly's non-package snapshots.
> 
> Then after the 1.0.0 release there will probably be parallel work on 
> both bugfix 1.0.x releases and feature-extending 1.x.y releases, 
> eventually stabilizing, and in a(n even brighter) future the 2.0.0 
> release which might offer the first non-boring stuff...
> 
> 
> - Jonas
> 
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