woody, boot-floppies, and debian-installer projected readiness
[I'm re-sending this due to the subject line damage -- this is a very
important issue.]
Talking to the release manager, Anthony Towns, in IRC, I learned it is
his current plan to freeze woody early in January 2001.
I think this is a laudable goal, but unfortunately I think that means
we need to retain the boot-floppies for woody.
I just don't see how we could have a working and functional
debian-installer in 12 weeks. 24 to 36 weeks seems more like it (even
being somewhat optimistic).
This is seriously bad news for me personally because I was hoping that
we could wash our hands of the boot-floppies -- and that I in
particular could wash my hands of bf maintenance and move on to more
work on the SGML/XML toolchain and Debian documentation.
However, this seems increasingly unlikely.
What does this mean? It means I'm going to branch in CVS for potato
maintenance in early November so that we can go into woody freeze with
working boot-floppies. I know we need a new busybox and I would
rather get that in sooner rather than later (but for Woody only, not
Potato). Erik, I wouldn't mind your opinion on whether we can use
your busybox pkg or instead should just bite the bullet and update
CVS.
There are other serious issues needing to be worked out, such as
better RAID integration, Reiserfs, lilo vs grub, and possibly more
automation.
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.....Adam Di Carlo....adam@onShore.com.....<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
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