-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 6/27/10 2:12 PM, Micha? Piotrowski wrote: > Hi, > > I wonder if it would be a big problem to create regular (for example, > every three months) re-spins of main installation images - cd's and > dvd's for i386 and x86_64 (not livecd's). > > Fedoraunity http://fedoraunity.org/re-spins creates such images, but > it's not regular. > > Regards, > Michal Re-spins take time and energy. Part of the reason the Unity project doesn't do them regularly is because changes in the distribution packages happen during a release and cause things to no longer work as designed within the installer. Anaconda has over the years made use of more and more existing utilities to get it's job done instead of maintaining their own versions of things. While this is good for code sharing, it means changes in these utilities can break anaconda. Discovering these changes and preparing / backporting code to take them into account takes time and energy, time and energy that would have been spent on making the next release better. Our releases come fast enough for our development team, one might say too fast. If we were to insert re-spins every 3 months we would be doing a rather insane amount of release wrangling between the re-spins for each active release and the ongoing work to prepare the release in development. Put simply, we don't have the resources to take this on as an "official" offering, requiring devel, releng, QA, marketing, et al resources. - -- Jesse Keating Fedora -- Freedom² is a feature! identi.ca: http://identi.ca/jkeating -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkwovu0ACgkQ4v2HLvE71NVPKwCfbHsGJzPgdbhmk39peIzc+t6u eZoAnRd6PhoZlEL3Q8A7ZRRFTfxu5eoz =NeLU -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
