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There has been a surge in activity on the installer project as of late. |
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I'm going to give a very broad overview of some of the things that have |
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happened or are happening. If you have questions, I invite you to ask on |
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list, in #gentoo-installer on freenode, or off list if you're more |
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comfortable doing that. |
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-- Tangible -- |
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Coding has picked back up on GLIInstallProfile. Profiles instantiation |
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from XML files is greatly enhanced and has been made more generic. |
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Overall improvements have been made to the profile object. (See |
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GLIInstallProfile) |
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Work has begun on an implementation of the architecture templates |
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discussed in the design documents. While still relatively generic and |
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rough, it has brought a number of points to light and allowed us to |
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answer some questions about design and how it translates to |
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implementation. (See GLIInstallTemplate) |
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A module of generic utility functions has been broken out to make common |
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tasks easier and more focused. (See GLIUtility) |
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Minor code restructuring has been done to facilitate recent changes. |
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-- Organizational -- |
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A developer by the name of Scott Myron (samyron on freenode) has been |
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regularly contributing quality code to the project. Scott is "on loan" |
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to us from our friends at Indiana University. Contrary to the previous |
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statement, Scott is not property even if it sounds funny that way. |
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(Watch in the future for more news about Scott... hint hint.) |
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Karl Trygve Kalleberg (or karltk as most of us know him) is back from |
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his Real Life Hiatus(tm) and will become more involved in the coming |
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::insert plural time unit here:: |
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The community continues to contribute new and interesting ideas and |
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we're doing our best to integrate said ideas into the prototype. |
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Please feel free to drop by #gentoo-installer with questions and / or to |
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say hi. |
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Regards. |
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Eric Sammer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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