Thoughts on potato etc.
Hi!
Just a few things I've been thinking of... Maybe quite wrong, but it's just to
get some discussion (and action!) going. (And I'm quite sleepy :0 )
* The release cycles require several beta-images to be made, for all
architectures. We can't possibly ask every mirror to keep updating.
So it seems wise to
- make beta-images available by rsync only
- have beta-images only on a few servers that can update fast &
frequently
(sunsite.org.uk and ftp.eecs.umich.edu ?? for Europe and USA resp.)
Possibly 2.1 images can be removed from these mirrors.
* 2.2 beta-images must not be available via FTP to avoid unnecessary
mirroring. If the images have to be placed under the FTP tree,
putting them in a `.something' directory might render them invisible
(depending on the ftpd).
* Before making a new beta-image, make sure the used packages mirror is up
to date (compare ls-lR(.gz) files). This has caused a few nasty bugs in
the past.
* New (beta-)images should ALWAYS be announced on debian-cd@lists and
possibly on devel-announce.
* It's nice if there was a page on cdimage.debian.org that discusses
details of getting potato beta-images, with (pointers to) latest .list
and MD5SUMS files (.iso's themselves not being available via FTP/HTTP).
I think I can make a draft for this.
* Some time ago, there was some discussion on this list about people
willing to burn beta-CDs and mail them to beta-testers. This seems the
right time to contact these people and have them stand by. And also to
collect some list of addresses of beta-testers.
* Phil (Hands), a few days ago I sent you some updated pages for
cdimage.d.o, but AFAICS nothing has changed. You did receive them, did
you?
* I don't want to stick my nose into everything, but a little bit of
trouble would be saved when I could maintain cdimage.d.o's webpages
directly. I'm not officially a Debian developer, but maybe we can work
out something.
* Raphael, does YACS (still?) put /project on the first Source CD? IMO it
should not, which saves lots of disk space.
* Finally, I saw YACS being packaged as the official debian-cd package.
Will http://pandora.debian.org/~hertzog/yacs/ remain the location for
the "unpackaged" YACS? (which is used on other Linuxes/UNIXes)
Personally, I won't do anything mentioned above, except some webpages
stuff. Volunteers anyone? Coordinators? (I.e. who's doing what..?)
Regards,
Anne Bezemer
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