infotropique roadmap (draft)

This occasionally updated posts describes the tentative roadmap of infotropique projects. Since I am not very good with being bothered to updated such documents, it naturally does not reflect ALL of infotropique. Eventually this will be moved to infotropique.org.

• Version: 0, Date updated: 2018-10-04
• Version: 1, Date updated: 2018-10-17 Changes: Renumbering

Vocabulary and meanings:

• porting and modularization:
  • 3 types of porting:
  • plant in foreign environments
  • plant building a foreign OS
    • for example:
    • Gentoo with portage and plant
    • OpenBSD
  • plant using different kernels and userlands to build infotropique OS/core
• plant: everything guix is (but reduced in monolith size). It also provides a small’ish OS you can boot into.
• infotropique OS/core: The main Operating System family, using plant and ports
• ports: currently a monolithic provider of services, packages, and more.
• ports-wip is the ‘dump experiments here’ variant.

Unfinished Tentative Roadmap for infotropique, Generation 1 codename Duesenjet / Düsenjet:

Version 0.0.1

• plant

  • rebased on latest Guix (at least including channel functionality)
  • extended licenses record-type and integration of it into UI and other parts, allowing a fine-grained selection of packages for the mixture of software we provide
  • plant is stripped down to the bare minimum we require, everything else has been moved to ports resp. ports-wip
  • documentation change to mdoc
  • drop translation support (for now), drop gettext
  • services
  • gnunet (if no release is out, either use prerelease or provide this service in ports for now)

• infotropique OS/core

  • templates: core, cwm, spectrwm, FVWM
  • mandoc as default man(1)

• ports

  • packages: too many packages to list
  • services: sorted in the services from guix core.

Version 0.0.2

• plant and ports

  • implemented PLIST phase
  • implemented install-examples phase
  • drop texinfo in UI

• plant

  • mandoc database integration

• infotropique OS/core

  • templates: MATE, GNOME, XFCE4
  • mandoc is fully functional (database gets generated)

• ports

  • services: add xdm service

Version 0.1

• plant

  • implement fine-grained license control (see TODO \“misc\” in plant repository)
  • PAGER support for all output of UI
  • finish documentation of plant
  • DISTFILES support

• ports

  • Nim build-systems is functional
  • Nim build-system, Nimble build-system, Nake build-system or a combination of all 3.
  • finish documentation of ports
  • “firmware discussion” implementation

• apomixis

  • rebased on cuirass - if we settle for this - and adjusted to plant

• infotropique OS/core

  • provide a first set of operating system templates

Version 0.2:

• plant

  • implement ‘frozen DAGs’
  • import supports versions
  • hardening
  • ‘delete system generations’ functionality
  • ‘where is FILENAME’ tool / functionality
  • UI either can have external (external to plant) scripts or ports gets its own scripts which in this release implement:
  • ebuild importer
  • improved nix importer
  • pkgsrc importer
  • openbsd ports importer
  • PKGBUILD importer

• ports

  • hardening
  • Use libressl where possible

Version 0.3

• plant

  • “\“is it reproducible?\” ledger-functionality for known peers (\“friends\” and yourself)
  • “build only \“known to be reproducible\” packages for a system - functionality
  • FHS-compatible chroot environments
  • support texinfo-less builds (with mdoc documentation as drop-in replacement)

• ports

  • support texinfo-less builds (with mdoc documentation as drop-in replacement)

Version 0.4

• plant
  • XEN support

Version 0.5

• plant

  • (start work on) FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and some more, support

• infotropique OS/core

  • templates should now be mature enough to start looking into the dedicated templating part

• ports

  • native support for more libcs

Version 0.6

• plant
  • gnunet-fs provides content addressable mirror and binary substitutes

Version 0.7

• plant

  • Some exceptions apply, but now gnunet-fs is the default source for source locations as well as binary substitutes

• ports

  • Cinnamon

Version 0.8

• infotropique OS/core

  • offsite data storage / backups
  • templates: KDE3, KDE4, KDE5 (or just KDE5)
  • (start work on) FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and some more, support

• ports

  • KDE3, KDE4, KDE5

Version 0.9

• plant

  • Genode support

• ports

  • Xenocara