Re: Netinstall cannot find wireless access points

[Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com>]

On Tue, 07 Feb 2012 08:27:19 -0500, Tom H wrote:

> On Tue, Feb 7, 2012 at 7:00 AM, Camaleón <noelamac@gmail.com> wrote:

(...)

>> I don't know where these features use to be advertized, I follow
>> debian- news, debian-announce, debian planet and often read debian
>> developers blogs and this went completely unnoticed to me. I think this
>> is something most users are awaiting for and would be glad to try,
>> check and report over... unless they're unaware about the possibility
>> >:-)
> 
> There probably isn't a "debian-testing-announce" because, AFAIK,
> "testing" was never meant to be a widely-used release. 

Sure, but there is a "project" and "news" mailing list for that precisely 
purpose: to allow users seeing what's going on inside the project and 
Debian next steps or proposed directions.

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For instance, it was recently published there that wheezy will get kernel 
3.2, what's the current status of gnome3 in wheezy, etc... very useful 
stuff.

> The announcement of the availability of WPA in d-i'll probably be done
> when Wheezy's released, 

Publishing a new feature at the Release Notes is too late for people can 
test and debug that feature properly, don't you think? ;-(

> in the same way that there wasn't a "we're now
> defaulting to grub2 in testing" announcement when Squeeze was
> "testing"; I've just googled "grub2
> site:lists.debian.org/debian-announce" and "grub2
> site:lists.debian.org/debian-news"). 

I read about the GRUB2 transition from Debian Planet and I'm sure sure it 
was aired in many other places, too.

> It'd be nice to have a generic "testing" announce-list but I suspect
> that the developers are busy enough as it is.

There is "testing" list but I'm afraid is mostly "package-centric":

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Greetings,

-- 
Camaleón