On Thu, 2007-09-27 at 21:10 +0530, Rahul Sundaram wrote: > We would like to request Fedora Project Board's approval on having this > as part of the official release for Fedora 8 starting with test 3. Honestly? I think it's too late for F8[1]. The other live images that are being done were pushed to have things that were testable for the feature freeze (test2). This coming in at the last minute means that they're going to say why couldn't they wait. And really, there's something bigger here. We need to be able to have groups (such as the Games SIG) able to create and build their own live images and make them available without requiring the overhead of 1) Release engineering being involved to actually do the build[2] 2) Being able to do their own testing, etc. As it is, Will can't try all the combinations of everything. Adding more doesn't help. 3) Be able to have releases that aren't carried by all mirrors. Because the explosion of images is going to be a lot of space on mirrors which isn't necessarily practical given how "popular" they are Also, we really need to be able to have a better way of guiding people to the best option for them to download... with Fedora 7, things had enough confusion. As we add more to the matrix, it only gets more so. Jeremy [1] At least, to have as a spin that's done by release engineering, carried by all the mirrors, etc. I'd love to see it done, though, and have us solve some of the problems so that we can make it easier for groups to start up their own spins like this [2] I only scale so much. Right now, Fedora 8 is already at twice as many live images to build and test as Fedora 7... and Fedora 7's number was plenty for one person _______________________________________________ fedora-advisory-board mailing list fedora-advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxx http://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-advisory-board
