Re: lightning quick woody+1 release scenarios (was Re: Wishlist for woody+1)
* Joey Hess
| 2. Go on much as we have before, trying for a whole release with the
| testing system in place, so we have a better baseline. Plan a freeze in
| 4 months, or 6 months, push that back.. you know what happened with
| woody, just add trying to get a new installation system to it in place
| of crypto-in-main or another major woody blocker. Release in 1 to 2.5
| years. Bah.
About a year, yes, probably.
| 3. Gather a team of 5 to 10 boot-floppies hackers (who are already familiar
| with it), to maintain boot-floppies as any changes come up. Use a
| criteria similar to in 1., but we don't care if changes impact the boot
| floppies.
|
| First 2 weeks: Decide what packages get updated.
| Second 2 weeks: Development.
| Second month: Testing and any necessary boot-floppies, tasks, etc
| changes.
| Third month: Testing, as 1.
|
| Potential problems as 1; 1.b. no longer a problem, 1.c. and 1.d. even more
| of a potential problem.
I doubt this would work, and we want to get rid of boot-floppies as
soon as possible. People are getting tired of it.
| 4. Gather a team of 20 to 40 determined people and crank through
| debian-installer or PGI; get it ready for release. This will take at
| least a couple of months, during which time the rest goes as in 3.
| Release after maybe 4 or 5 months.
Do we have the required people? Are people that interested? And,
will I be able to coordinate that many people? I fear that we'll end
up with an anthill and people running all over each other's code. d-i
is modular, but one still needs to understand how things are put
together, else we'll end up with very strange installation system.
| Potential problems:
|
| a. We can't really estimate how long it would take to finish either
| installer enough. Estimates will be wrong.
they will, but hopefully they won't be too far off; I sent you some
off-list which are not-too-optimistic.
| b. Testing will take longer.
| c. Documentation updates called for.
| d. Changes to debian-cd called for.
I have those partly working already. Testing is obviously needed, and
I need to clean the patches up for submission.
| 5. Ditch stable and "release" testing every week or so.
|
| Problems: Far too many to list.
ROTFL.
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