Ok, so that I'm not useful by packing, yet, I'll try to be useful in other
ways.

So welcome to Devuan Weekly News. Weekly issue I also corresponds to Week 1 of
the project.


* Project name:

There has been some discussion about the name 'Devuan' being the best (e.g.
[1]). No conclusive answer has been given in favor or against.

[1] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.225407.850e868d.en.html


* Fraud accusation and requests for personal and financial data:

There has been a very long and harsh thread starting at [2] with one side
requesting data about the people who runs the project and is asking for
donations, and the other side explaining that some information will arrive on
its own time, since the project has just started ([3]), that more info is
needed but the ways of requesting were unappropiate ([4]), that the
information is in fact available ([5]), and finally some information was
clearly expressed at [6].

[2] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.170833.e3b54777.en.html
[3] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.174747.403042cb.en.html
[4] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.204940.50374e44.en.html
[5] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.182743.c5b53e30.en.html
[6] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.210624.0e629859.en.html


* Project Logo:

There has been some work around logos for the project in the thread at [7]
with proposals around a mouse, the Huffington Horse, a wizards version of the
Debian logo and a wavy spiral, in several colours, mainly orange and black. No
conclusion has been achieved, yet.

[7] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.211706.71a2b821.en.html


* Inclusion of systemd

Another hard thread, but not so harsh as the Fraud one, was started at [8]
with a statament that systemd should be supported in Devuan as an option to
users, since users' freedom to choose an init system should include systemd.
Clear stataments were done about the issue at [9] saying that systemd will be
supported, and later clarified at [10] saying that Devuan is not to 'Put in
effort to keep systemd out because we hate it' but 'If systemd upstream or any
interested party puts in effort to make systemd fit in with the bazaar approach,
then we should welcome them with open arms'.

[8] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.125423.9da1f8c2.en.html
[9] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.131414.34f133f0.en.html
[10] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.080352.494a6c5c.en.html


* Udev

Thre was also a discussion about if Devuan should ship udev at all, starting
at [11], with proposals for eudev and plain devfs ([12]).

[11] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141129.223725.260e1585.en.html
[12] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.165311.0d85d31b.en.html


* 4chan

There was a short thread about how Devuan has been received at 4chan,
specifically at /g/, at [13].

[13] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141201.144055.935d96ac.en.html


* How to work on Devuan

There was a request at [14] asking for information about how to really
contribute. No information about how to code was provided, but the priorities
were clearly pointed at that we need an installer ([15]).

[14] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.164003.44f07a0b.en.html
[15] https://lists.dyne.org/lurker/message/20141130.175322.3092e153.en.html


Ok, that's all for today. Let's hope next week we all have less harsh to read
(and less to read in general) and more to work on.

Noel
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