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Brian C. White <bcwhite@verisim.com> has formed a dpkg-development
group, `deity'
It is my pleasure to announce the formation of the dselect
replacement project, code-named "deity". The project will be made
up of the following 7 people:
Project Leader: Brian White <bcwhite@verisim.com>
- General organization, dispute resolution, final say on
"capabilities"
Chief Programmer: Peter Iannarelli <peter@pisys.com>
- Code organization, task breakdown, final say on "code"
Mechanic(*): Jason Gunthorpe <jgg@gpu.srv.ualberta.ca>
- Low-level class and library design
Dpkg Consultant: Tom Lees <tom@lpsg.demon.co.uk>
- Expert on compatibility with existing dpkg, dependency
algorithms, etc.
Web Designer: Mark Constable <markc@vv.com.au>
- Work on HTML and CGI interfaces
Chief Designer: Behan Webster <behanw@verisim.com>
- Screen layout, ease of use, final say on "user interface"
Documentation: Che Fox <che@imsa.edu>
- high & low level design docs, idea tracking, user manuals
(*) Someone who likes to work on low-level "engines". (I get called
this. :-)
A new list "deity@lists.debian.org" has been created with these
people subscribed to it. I'm sure I speak for the whole team when I
say that we would like to hear everybody's ideas for this new tool.
As the design progresses, we will be presenting it back to the devel
& user lists for feedback.
About the people:
* Brian White has been working within the Debian project for about 2
years now and is current the vice president of engineering. He
has 14 years of intense software development and knows C and C++
very well.
* Peter Iannarelli is fairly new to Debian but is anxious to
contribute. He has 13 years of experience with Unix and C, plus 7
years of C++. He also has a background in java, motif, and
curses, along with strong design and documentation skills.
* Jason Gunthorpe has 4 years of experience with C/C++ and enjoys
working at the class-level of designs. He has already started
working out how some of the underlying problems can be solved
efficiently.
* Tom Lees has experience with C/C++ and has spent time studying the
existing dpkg system. He also has a background in text-mode user
interfaces and sgml documentation.
* Behan Webster has 14 years of experience with C programming and
Unix, plus 5 years of C++. He has worked extensively on user
interfaces (mostly the graphical kind) and has a good feel for
what is intuitive and easy to use.
* Che Fox is a whiz at linuxdoc-sgml and will be managing the
documentation. He also has experience with Tk interfaces.
* Mark Constable has a good background in web/cgi interaction and
will be working to make that a viable interface.