On Mon, 25 Feb 2008, Igor Pires Soares wrote:
I am interested in a Fedora Spin for Brazilian Portuguese, but there
are a few things I am concerned about.
I am interested in this as well, especially with FISL coming up in
April. It would be great to have a Brazilian Portugues spin that folks
can use.
Here is how I would encourage you to start (and actually how I would
encourage anyone who wants to begin dabbling with a custom spin to
start):
(1) Install the livecd-tools package on your machine, and take a look at
the .ks files that were used to create the "official" Fedora 8 spins.
(2) Using those as an inspiration, create a .ks file for yourself, that
is what you believe the ideal desktop package set for someone living in
Brazil, who is a native speaker would want to use.
(3) Build it using livecd-creator, and test it out a bit. One good way
to do this is by putting it on a USB key with the livecd-iso-to-disk
utility.
(4) Once you are pretty happy, publish your .ks file for others to look
at and suggest comments on. This will all be based on Fedora 8.
(5) OPTIONAL -- FISL is on April 17th, by which point we are likely to
have a release candidate for Fedora 9. Once your Fedora 8 spin is
working like a charm, you can change the repositories to point to
development and see what the same spin, coming from Rawhide looks like.
We would have to do significant testing of it, but it's likely to only
get better and better as Fedora 9 approaches.
(6) We figure out a plan for maintenance of the spin, and for hosting of
the ISOs. But until there is something actually working, this is not
much of a worry, because it's simply a bunch of text in a .ks file, and
hosting that is trivial.
--Max