Indeed, it's a good way forward for now.

Once everything is in place, I'll start playing with rebuilding GDM without tons of dependencies, to ease the debugging of LoginKit. Once I can debug GDM on a Devuan system with sysvinit and a barebones build of GDM with debugging symbols, things will be a lot easier.

On Sun, 4 Jan 2015 11:08:34 -0800
Go Linux <golinux@???> wrote:

> On Sun, 1/4/15, Franco Lanza <nextime@???> wrote:
>
> Subject: [Dng] Release roadmap
> To: dng@???
> Date: Sunday, January 4, 2015, 12:03 AM
>
> As many already known,
> i will be unreliable next week, and this will cause a little bit
> of slow down in the package repository population.
>
> Sorry for that, but my primary job is calling me for a week long trip
> i cannot postpone.
>
> Anyway, i want to let you know the roadmap i have for the release of
> what i consider the "alpha" version of devuan jessie.
>
> Firt of all, this alpha release will NOT yet include loginkit nor eudev by
> default, as they are not yet ready for use, hoping they can be an option
> for the release, for the moment we prefer to let developers do they're
> work.
>
> It will have of course no systemd, sysvinit as default, many core
> packages rebuilt to remove systemd and libsystemd0 dependencies, xfce4
> as default desktop.
>
> Gnome3 will be installable, but it will use systemd-shim, a temporary
> workaround waiting for loginkit or other solution to arise.
>
> I will be back in january, 13, and then i will immediatly start to work
> hard on make it real before the end of january.
>
> We will probably have the repository populated with all needed packages
> for friday 23 january, and the first iso installer is scheduled for
> saturday 31 january.
>
> If anyone want to contribute by assuming the role of devuan maintainer
> for one or more package that actually in debian depend on something from
> systemd, please drop me an email to nextime@??? with subject
> "devuan package maintainer" and specify which package you want to
> maintain, a little description of your competences, and your account
> name on git.devuan.org.
>
> Seeya next week!
>
> --------------------------------------------
>
> Thanks to you and everyone on the Devuan team for all your hard work. It's an excellent idea to get the ball rolling with XFCE and a not yet fully systemd-free Gnome. That will come in time. Meanwhile, we'll have something to test which will help to move things forward.
>
> Safe travels and see you next week. :)
>
> golinux
>
>
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