This is the first report of debian-images-generator project. First, thanks to everybody that it's helping me and the ones that are answering all my questions: My mentor Steve McIntyre, Baruch Even, Raphael Hertzog, ...<br>
<br> Second, i didn't selected Debian organization just for work in this project for summer, i've been interested in became a DD for a long time and seems that this summer i will have some packages to mantain: debian-images-generator and may be some python libraries that i'm going to use. Anyway, all my efforts will be focus in debian-images-generator to finish before the deadline, and after that, i will continue maintaining the project.
<br><br>Things that have been keeping me busy this days:<br> - The original name of the project was debian-cd-ng. Now, the name of the project is debian-images-generator, it's larger but very descriptive.<br> - Wiki page created: debian-images-generator [1]. Currently, points to the old one but i will update it soon.
<br> - Requested an alioth project. I asked for a subversion and also for a list.<br> - Also, i've requested access at my university to have access to non-i386 architectures because i just have i386 machines in my home/work and it will be helpful to test the first images generated...
<br> - Before i got accepted i started working in the config parser, i will upload the code soon. Thanks to Sergio Talens for recommend me ConfigObj [2].<br> - I've been testing python-apt libs and i'm a little worry about a warning that it shows when you import "apt":
<br> /usr/lib/python2.4/site-packages/apt/__init__.py:17: FutureWarning: apt API not stable yet<br> warnings.warn("apt API not stable yet", FutureWarning)<br> Traceback (most recent call last):<br>
...<br> - Moreover, i've been testing debpartial-mirror as Gustavo Franco points me in the old wiki page [3] of the project but it seems that it is not what i looking for. I'm thinking that debian-images-generator just have to know about the URI of a valid mirror, the user has to be responsible of providing that mirror (locally or external). I don't think that the task of generate a mirror should be inside debian-images-generator.
<br><br><br><br>[1] <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/debian-images-generator">http://wiki.debian.org/debian-images-generator</a><br>[2] <a href="http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html">http://www.voidspace.org.uk/python/configobj.html
</a><br>[3] <a href="http://wiki.debian.org/debian-cd-ng">http://wiki.debian.org/debian-cd-ng</a><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Carlos Parra Camargo<br><a href="http://www.carlospc.org">http://www.carlospc.org</a><br>