Hamradio blend website and live images

["Dave Hibberd" <d@vehibberd.com>]

Hey all,

I've finally sorted out my GPG key and other issues that were holding me back from uploading.

I had a support message from someone yesterday who pulled our live image from here [1] and was asking about wsjtx.
The most recent live image of the blend we've got up is of Debian 8.5.0 - pretty out of date by any standards.
 
Given the webpage hasn't been updated in some time, I suggest a short term solution to pull links for the live images and just direct people towards metapackages.  I spoke with irl and the source currently lives here [3].

Longer term, is there any desire for continued production of live images? It's clear we've done nothing for the last few years. I had a go at using the debian tools to build a new live image [2] a couple of years back, which was fun. 

I like the idea of having the image, and I hope that with CI on salsa, we might actually be able to automate generation of an image - that's definitely a challenge I would be interested in taking on. To get new images on the relevant server we'd need to talk to someone in the debian-cd channel, but thats a "later" problem.

Equally, I can see a good argument against having a live image and just directing users towards metapackages - there's the ongoing maintenance to avoid stale images and the potential expectation of user support. 

Has anyone got any strong feelings on this? I lean towards producing a live image, but I'm not going to be upset if the general consensus is "please don't" :)  

[1] https://www.debian.org/blends/hamradio/get/live
[2] https://salsa.debian.org/debian-hamradio-team/hamradio-blend-livecd 
[3] https://salsa.debian.org/webmaster-team/webwml/-/blob/master/english/blends/hamradio/

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