On 22.12.2007 14:32, Jesse Keating wrote: > On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:15:47 +0530 > "Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <debarshi.ray@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >>> Maybe half way through as in Fedora 8.5 or something like that >>> where all the common bugs get fixed? >> Not all fixes, but just the installer specific ones would be enough. > This assumes that the installer from F8 would get updates. It > doesn't. Installer work is entirely done on the /next/ release, and > interspersed with all the new features we're doing. To require the > installer folks to work on updates to the old installer would be a sure > way to stagnate future development. Sorry, I might be shortsighted, but why is the installer different to other packages? Sure, it's a bit more work to produce updates for older releases, but isn't that what we do everywhere else as well? So why can't the installer guys do it as well? Further: we create update images like http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img so those problems we are talking about get analyzed and fixed already. But the fix is hard to access for some people; and it's a extra step you need to know about. All we'd need to do is to get this and similar *small* updates into a updated install iso image and we'd make a lot people happy that currently have a hard time installing Fedora. Cu knurd -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
