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Quick updates on the GLI... |
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Who's who: |
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NM: Nathanial McCallum |
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SM: Scott Myron |
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CS: Cory Shields |
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KL: Kurt Lieber |
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- NM has completed more work on the InstallTemplate class (the core of |
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control logic with things such as network setup, bootstrapping, emerge |
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system, etc.). This brings InstallTemplate closer to completion. The |
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majority of the "tough" work that remains is the device partitioning, |
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give or take. |
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- SM has done more work on InstallProfile and the utility module to |
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round things out. He's also been working on some snazzy security ideas |
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related to the next item... |
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- KL presented an idea of having a simple web based profile generation |
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tool where users could generate profiles that they can later install |
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with the (hopefully) soon to be complete prototype. Everyone agreed that |
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this is a great tool, but will NOT take the place of GUI down the road. |
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- CS began work on the web profile generator. In theory, this will lead |
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the user though the options and generate an XML file that can be used as |
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a deployment profile. (See the design documents for more details about |
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what that means and how it all fits together). |
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- CS completed a GUI design draft and distributed it to some of the |
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other devs. This is preliminary and not yet official hence why it hasn't |
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be made public yet. CS will (probably) continue to refine this as more |
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details become clear during prototype development. This DOES NOT mean we |
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are going to release a GUI any time soon. |
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- A few of us have begun discussions about handling partitioning and the |
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implementation details thereof. This is tricky and will initially handle |
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simple cases. Support for advanced storage device configuration |
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(software raid, lvm, etc.) will be included at a later date. |
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- Discussions have begun on how, specifically, architecture dependent |
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cases will be implemented. |
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- I've added a centralized system for logging messages to a file. |
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- NM and SM have been updating the InstallProfile TODO document (see |
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docs/InstallProfileTODO.txt). Hopefully, we will centralize our TODO |
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lists soon. |
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- I will be releasing a formal time line (road map) for development that |
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will finally answer the question of when there will be a public testable |
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prototype and what features it will have, initially (and no, one of |
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those features will not be a GUI). I'm trying to get this done as soon |
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as possible, but it's very difficult to pinpoint times with volunteer |
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developers and Real Life Interference. |
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- We had a quick status meeting in #gentoo-installer to discuss most of |
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the things above. |
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Overall: |
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A lot of new code has been added, primarily in the InstallTemplate area. |
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InstallProfile has seen refinement and improvement and is becoming a bit |
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more solid. Things are really starting to take shape. The progress made |
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and overall speed of development has increased greatly over the last few |
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weeks. |
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As always, everyone is invited to participate in discussions in |
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#gentoo-installer, where the magic happens. |
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Eric Sammer |
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Gentoo Linux |
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http://www.gentoo.org |
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