Re: Finding an improved release process.
John Goerzen wrote:
> 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.
Yes, it worked once upon a time. Without 2.6 support, without hardware
detection, without LVM, without Wireless support, and so on.
>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.
Apparently everyone who actually had a look at the boot-floppies source
used up a stack of brown paper bags and decided to _not_ put more
effort into it.
We don't even managed to do security updates of boot-floppies for that
reason.
Thiemo
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