> The d-i team is constantly working on simplifying debian-installer. Just > > compare a sarge install with an etch install.. > > > I guess I'll take a look at their mailing list - I had some simple ideas You're more than welcome (actually you'll see by doing this that Joey Hess saying "the D-I team" is equivalent to "we".....in short Joey is part of the D-I team, and one of its most ancient members indeed). Regular feedback about new D-I features as well as frequent testing of D-I is something that would really help the D-I team. It is often hard to draw a line between what belongs to D-I and what belongs to other packages and general consistency of the distribution, when users report installation experience but the past has provenn that user's install report are often a good way to enhance the way things work on newly installed systems. > Anyway, I figure I'll get in touch with the respective teams and look into > the source code of the relevant components somewhat. Thanks for answering > my questions - it's nice to see a distribution where development is open and > users can actively communicate with developers. Well, when you started this thread I was fearing a quite long flame with everybody jumping at you with "if you don't like <foo> you're free to some and help improving it"....which is definitely what happens too frequently when some users report issues that can't often be pointed to a given package. Indeed, the thread is really interesting to follow and already shows that big efforts are made to improve those parts who are still not as polished as they could be (or "appear" polished....many things you pointed to be user-friendly in Ubuntu could perfectly be very dirty hacks..:-)) > P.S. I remeber seeing something about a "constantly usable testing". What's > the status of this? Well, we should ask users of testing but my feeling is that this goal is kinda well achieved. Testing being aimed at being "the next release" should theoretically be constantly usable. If it is not, this becomes an RC issue..:) --
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