Re: Finding an improved release process.
On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 02:35:52PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 08:28 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> > On Mon, Nov 29, 2004 at 12:23:08AM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > Miquel van Smoorenburg <miquels@cistron.nl> wrote:
> > > Thankfully, this no longer seems to be the case for Sarge. The two
> > > things that are holding us up are the installer and the security
> > > support. It's unlikely that the installer would have been finished any
> > > faster if it had been supporting fewer architectures - many people have
> >
> > In that case, we could have just kept the installer from woody and been
> > done with it, no?
>
> Well, if people had been willing to maintain it, yes. But there didn't
> seem to be any significant interest in doing so.
On the other hand, it worked already. We seem to decide we have to
rewrite the installer from scratch for each new release, and it seems to
slow us down each time.
This isn't to say that the d-i folks aren't doing a great job. They
are. Just to say that we have something that works now, and using it
for sarge would make sarge no worse than what we have now.
-- John
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