Em Qua, 2011-01-12 Ãs 21:03 -0500, David Nalley escreveu: > Virtually all of the decisions (except what the finished media > contains, and the artwork on the media) is made by the Ambassadors in > each region. Some regions, like LATAM have a machine for burning CDs > and then labeling them with pre-printed labels. NA and EMEA have discs > pressed (and for instance, EMEA decided to have LXDE LiveCDs made in > addition to the Gnome LiveCDs a release or two back). > > If you want something to come of this, those are the people you should > be talking with, and I think you'll find that those people are > re-evaluating the viability of using USB drives every release. If I > recall their last evaluation correctly, the cheapest USB drive we > could get in mass quantities was still almost 20x the cost of CDs. This is a good point. In some regions USB drives are a lot more expensive than CDs. Even if you think about DVDs, they are still more expensive than CDs. The difference per unity is not big but makes a reasonable difference on mass production. Additionally, CDs can be recorded and printed faster. I believe that LiveCDs are still valuable for us. I know that this is hard to conceive in some parts of the world but in Latin America and probably also in Africa CDs are a common media. Certainly this will change in the near future, so I have nothing against creating both a LiveDVD and a LiveCD for a "transition" period. Of course this will give more work to rel-eng and QA. -- Igor Pires Soares Fedora Ambassador (Brazil) - Member of FAmSCo Fedora I18N/L10N QA https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/User:Igor _______________________________________________ advisory-board mailing list advisory-board@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/advisory-board
