[Hamara-devel] Hamara Server Edition

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Vikas Tara (2015-11-04 18:47:29)
> On 04/11/15 17:39, Jonas Smedegaard wrote:
>> Quoting Anant (2015-11-04 17:43:35)
>>> Hope you are doing well, I am writing this to inform that I am 
>>> taking initiative to build process of Hamara Server edition.
>>>
>>> Suggestions and feedbacks are welcome.
>> How will Hamara erver edition be different from plain Debian?
>>
> The idea of the hamara server edition is to have an iso / DVD that can 
> be shipped containing packages that are suited to the Indian user 
> base.

How is Indian user base different from, say, Venezuelan or Peruvian user 
base?  Language is different, but that's hardly reason for deriving.

Debian aims to be universal, and considers India part of that universe.
How is Debian unsuitable for Indian user base?  What more specifically 
do you want to differentiate, and why?

Don't get me wrong - I don't try start a pissing contest here.  I just 
dearly want to avoid wasting resources on duplicated work.  Enthusiastic 
developers in Venzuela have made great progress getting the Intel 
Classmate to work more smoothly but sadly work on a derivative of Debian 
so ny work they do, someone needs to additionally mirror for the rest of 
the universe to benefit from it.


> As with all hamara things - we may elect to ship versions of packages 
> that are not in debian or are older versions.
>
> Diaspora Installer is on example, as is the case with software such as 
> Gnu Khata.

I don't follow: Both those concrete examples seem in active process of 
being packaged for Debian.

Is it that you dislike how those are packaged for Debian and wanna 
"compete" - i.e. do it differently in parallel?  Or that you expect it 
to take too long to enter Debian "stable" and you consider it needing 
less testing to expose to your users?  Something else?

I can understand if you want the flexibility of forking at any moment 
you see fit, for various reasons - what puzzles me is if as a _starting_ 
point you choose to burden yourself with work already done or in the 
making in Debian.  Which it seems to me that you might be aiming for 
here.

The better I understand your reasons for working in parallel to Debian, 
the more likely Debian realizes its limitations for local needs and 
hopefully improves to be more welcoming to projects like Hamara.

 - Jonas

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