Tollef Fog Heen wrote: > | As you may or may not know, I will no longer have a "position of > | responsibility" in the installation system after Woody. Joey Hess has > | volunteer for this position, or at least he did about 18 months ago. > | I assume he's still for it -- hopefully the folks on this list agree > | with that. > > Joey has offered me the position of technical lead on d-i, since he > has too many other things taking up his time, and I have said yes. > Assuming that nobody has any big objections, that is.
I think that Tollef has been doing a great job already lately, and it's only fair that he should be saddled with it officially. :-) I will continue to participate with d-i of course, especially in helping with design issues and the parts I am the maintainer of. > | I worry whether debian-installer can have the maturity for a Woody+1 > | release, supposing we were going for a shorter release cycle of 6 > | months. You have to consider that the testing period is at least 3 > | months, apparently, and that would mean that we would have a > | feature-complete debian-installer in 3 months, aka 12 weeks, which I > | don't think is long enough. > > I think we should move to debian-installer, even though it will take > longer time to work out. People want to do some new development, d-i > is getting closer to working (as in actually being able to install > systems in a mostly-reliable way) by the day and I don't think pushing > boot-floppies for yet another iteration would be good at all. IMO, > that is. It feels to me like a recipe for putting us in exactly the position we're in now, a year or however long later, once sarge has released. We have to work on d-i *sometime*, and now is clearly the time. Of course I share aph's worries, particularly when all the architectures are taken into account. -- see shy jo -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
