CDD ideas

I am now at the speach of Andreas Tille about CDDs and let me dump here my idea, what the CDD framerowk should do.

• it should be enough to write one structured text file to create a CDD
• you can select a set of packages that are: needed, recommended, conflicted;
• you can preseed debconf database with answers;
• you can do some specific changes to the conffiles or other files (as diffs or rewrite rules);
• you can add/remove some text or binary files;
• you can recompile a package (with a patch);
• you can add some package that is not yet in Debian;
  
• the framework can generate a set of packages that could be uploaded to Debian, to allow a Debian user to 'apt-get install cdd-something'
• the framework can generate a simplified installation CD that installs the CDD with a minimum amount of questions
• the framework can generate a LiveCD with the CDD
• a summary of bug reports that relate to the CDD should be gettable
• all the actions for a CDD should be possible to be done on Debian infrastructure. cdd.debian.org portal with standartized interfaces for every CDD for documentation, information, bug summaries, cvs/arch/svn/... links, links to all CDs, links to web forums, ...
  
• all the actions for a CDD should be possible to be done fully independently from Debian. Packages for that should be inside Debian and should be easy to install/configure
• a CDD must be able to do releases independantly from Debian
• the should be a way to do security updates for all relased CDDs for some fixed time period
  
• any CDD could be derrived either from plain Debian of from any other CDD
• The feature set must be complete enough to have Ubuntu as a CDD
  

I will add more, once I remember more ideas.