Re: State of the Woody

[Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org>]

Anthony Towns wrote:
> One way of handling it would be more like:
> 
> 	woody/main/disks-*  <--- recommended installation method, tested,
> 	                         working etc
> 	sid/main/debian-installer/* <--- new development thing hax0rs 
> 	                                 might use
> 
> Once woody's tested, and fixed, and released, (and debian-installer is
> usable on i386 for many cases, and somewhat ported or so, say), we switch
> to:
> 
> 	sarge/main/debian-installer/*   <--- recommended installation method
> 	sid/main/debian-installer/*     <--- development on above
> 
> and spend the entire six to eight months or more of the development cycle
> building CDs of testing, and installing them with the debian-installer.

I guess I could live with that.

> As far as losing the buzz goes, I'm quite sure that you'll only become
> *more* interested in getting debian-installer to work after spending a few
> months working on boot-floppies. :-/

I've already done that, thanks all the same. :-P I wouldn't be working
on debian-installer otherwise. Besides, I was referring to buzz amoung
potential testers.

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