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John Davis wrote: |
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> Installer folk (I am not sure who all of you are atm) - |
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Primarily, it's tseng, spyderous, npmccallum, samyron, klieber, and |
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myself. Regular contributors, commenters, cheerleaders, and |
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bad-idea-pointer-out-ers are cshields, port001, ciaranm, method, and a |
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few others (sorry if I missed anyone - I'm going from memory). |
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> Although the installer project is listed as a releng subproject, I |
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> cannot remember a time when we have actually coordinated our efforts! |
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Indeed. We've spoken (briefly) about how we might be able to integrate |
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some of our efforts to work toward a common goal, but (speaking for |
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myself only now) I think we wanted to solidify a number of things before |
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we started dragging other teams in. We just didn't want to waste |
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anyone's time. Our current goal was to be able to produce a beta quality |
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chunk of code that met the original design and stated goals. I think |
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that we're coming up on the time when we'll need to coordinate with our |
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friendly releng cohorts and work out things like, well, "release |
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engineering." |
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> So, let's change that. What can releng do to help out with the installer |
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> project? I would like to work hand-in-hand with the installer project |
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> and work towards a Gentoo installer for mid-2005. Is this doable? |
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I think so. I feel like the interest is picking up and more and more |
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people are wanting to get involved. To me, this says we're doing |
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something right. I know it's a slow "right," but it's better than a fast |
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"wrong," in my opinion. ;) |
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My gut tells me our main hurdle (in relation to things that we'd need to |
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coordinate on) is going to be working out the installer / livecd |
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integration. We've talked about this in installer channels like this |
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list and #gentoo-installer and have some ideas how the impact could |
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remain minimal, but I'd like to hear some ideas from releng who aren't |
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tainted by what we've already been discussing. To be honest, our needs |
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aren't exactly minimal - we need python, some extra C libraries and |
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python bindings, network support, maybe even support for netbooting as |
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we get into the automated deployment areas. The goal is to not force |
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anyone in Gentoo land to use the installer - it should be an option only. |
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The best we can do is keep a tight contact with each other. I'll join |
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the releng lists, if that's acceptable to you (zhen) and lurk so I can |
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get a better picture of what you folks are up to. |
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Thanks again for "reaching out," John. It's nice to work with a team |
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that acts like a team. |
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