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Enrico Zini <address@hidden> described the package as follows:
License: other
Other License: Choosing a license is not quite applicable at this stage, since 
we\'ll start with just list discussion.

We\'ll hopefully be producing some documentation and code, and since they\'ll 
be part of Debian, they\'ll be DFSG-compliant.
Package: Debian Usability Research
System name: d-usability
Type: non-GNU

Description:
At the Linux Conferenct Australia 2003 there was a BOF about debian usability 
issues.  At the end of the BOF we gathered e-mail addresses and decided to 
continue working on these issues once we got back home.  Nearly two months have 
passed and the continuation has not begun due to many random problems, but now 
it seems that the right time has arrived.

We will mainly need a mailing list, although the savannah facilities are likely 
to prove useful for the group work.  We decided, together with Anand Kumria 
(the debian.org listmaster) to start the list in some separate server, possibly 
bringing it later into debian if we see that it takes off.

The goal of the project is to address general usability issues on Debian.  
These are some issues identified in the BOF, to give a practical idea about 
what we have in mind:

 - status of package metadata: what is ok, what is still missing, how could it 
be added
 - package searching and browsing techniques, to cope with the large and 
increasing number of packages
 - how \"debian flavours\" could help produce distribution that better address 
the needs of different communities and how they could be easily created.
 - how to handle usability bug reports

This does not start as a software project, although it might lead to writing 
some code.

Other Software Required:
This project is all about Debian and all dependencies will be part of the 
Debian project.

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