(bringing back an old thread) Dennis Gilmore (dennis@xxxxxxxx) said: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Sun, 12 May 2013 17:56:20 +0200 > Christoph Wickert <christoph.wickert@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Hi, > > > > back in April we discussed the F19 spins and it was widely agreed > > that http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Releases/19/Spins is the canonical > > list of approved spins that need to be produced. However this doesn't > > seem to be the case, I only see the desktop spins. In fact, that is > > not even true given that I cannot find MATE either. > > > > What does the spins SIG need to do in order to get the remaining > > spins? > > We have for the last few releases composed the 5 main desktop spins > Gnome, KDE, LXDE, XFCE and SoaS for Alpha and Beta and in theory > nightlies have been used for QA. before making the 5 we only made KDE > and Gnome. QA has not been really happening as is evidenced by spins > regularly failing to compose, and being shipped DOA, as in the > design-Suite in F18 and Games being dropped for failing to compose. I > personally fixed a bunch of spins in F17. > > For Fedora 19 I'm planning to only compose those 5 for GA also and I > will only be shipping them if they have been tested and signed off by > at least 3 people as working. This is due to Spins having been shipped > broken in the past. I think we need to stop pretending there is a spins > SIG as its not been functional or working for a few years. Functional or not, has this been widely disseminated? - Are all the spin maintainers aware? - Is the websites team that builds and maintains spins.fp.o aware, and ready to handle only updating some of the spins listed there? - Is it in the release notes? etc. It's a very large change to drop five deliverables, obviously. Bill > > Perhaps the question we really need to ask is how should we deploy and > install Fedora, Which is not something we can change or solve for f19 > or probably even f20. An idea that comes to mind is to have package > selections and post install config tasks ship as kickstart snippets > with the DVD. we then use grub/syslinux to present a menu to the users > to have different frameworks that resemble the spins the kickstart is > fed to anaconda then at boot time or anaconda gives you the option to > select them. > > Dennis > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.19 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAlGRG2kACgkQkSxm47BaWfervQCfcXLPBL3ucCxdOdFnYqE52iZP > Q4YAoIESAgq60oY1xph75EdK3A9fcxzR > =3O/u > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > spins mailing list > spins@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/spins > -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
