Due to the last few weeks we’ve managed to get a stable core of packages running. This was our main goal for the 0.1 release. However it hasn’t been released for two reasons: There’s still a bug left which should be fixed before releasing 0.1 and we might abandon the release concept in general and instead become fully rolling-release. Primarily because no one takes care of releases and secondarily because there isn’t really a use for them. Speaking in terms of release dates we’re having almost 0.2 ready and 0.1 isn’t released yet. This classification does therefore not represent the project’s status.
Additionally to the core of packages the extra repository has notably grown in size containing the basic X11 packages as well as the needed libraries. While those packages are not fully maintained yet they are working. One next task will be to assign maintainers to all those packages as for now phil’s maintaining almost all of them on demand.
From developer’s view there’s nothing missing which is vital for working on this project. There are still features the project would greatly benefit from, for instance a build host which takes care of automatically updating the repositories since at the moment this is done manually. But those tasks are not really that urgent.
We are very glad that there’s also ongoing community effort not only in using our distribution but also in supporting it. naeg has taken care of the mpd package along with its dependencies which is already in the official repositories and he is planning to create snapshots from our distribution shortly while admiral0 has managed to get the basic phone functionality working based on qtmoko. His efforts are currently in a private repository but we plan to get them into the official ones. Wiki pages describing how to test his packages will follow shortly.