Re: [gentoo-dev] The Gentoo Installer Project

[Joshua J. Berry]

Thanks for popping up and clarifying.

On rereading the EI thread, I realized I might have come off as trivializing the
work you guys are doing, and that wasn't my intention.  The installer is a
hugely important part of this whole mess, and I want to apologize if any of you
felt that I was ignoring/trivializing it.

-- Josh

On Sat, Aug 07, 2004 at 03:03:01PM -0400, Eric Sammer wrote:
> All:
>
> One of the other members of the installer project (samyron) brought my
> attention to the Enterprise Installer thread. I haven't been able to
> keep up with gentoo-dev email as my day job has me quite busy as of
> late. First of all, I'd like to apologize for "not coming out of the
> woodwork" - it certain wasn't on purpose or due to lack of interest - it
> was just due to Real Life(tm). :)
>
> The purpose of this email is just to clarify some points and attempt to
> be a bit more transparent about the GLI project.
>
> The installer project was started to create a flexible installation
> framework for both non-gui automated installers, and "desktop style"
> installs ala other major distributions. We are creating a series of
> frameworks and libraries that will allow automated server deployment,
> imaging, and other common installation tasks. Installation will be
> possible from source or prebuilt binaries - the installer is not tied to
> either and is not related to GRP at all. Also, to answer an immediate
> concern of long time Gentoo users and devs - the current method of
> installation ("by hand") will absolutely NOT be going away or become
> unavailable.
>
> As it stands, we have a working design and are concentrating on
> implementation. We have a rather small team at the moment and Real Life
> does interfere, but the project is still active.
>
> If you're interested in contributing (in any way - not just coders are
> needed) please join us in #gentoo-installer on freenode and / or
> subscribe to the gentoo-installer mailing list. Please also check out
> the docs on the project page which should provide additional information
> about what is going on (but yes, they are a bit out of date and haven't
> been updated as of late). The current team is:
>
> Kurt Lieber (klieber)
> Donnie Berkholz (spyderous)
> Brandon Hale (tseng)
> Nathaniel McCallum (npmccallum)
> Scott Myron (samyron)
> (me) Eric Sammer (esammer)
>
> Other active people in the project are (by IRC nick): cshields, codeman,
> blackace, agaffney, and others.
>
> Join us. All are welcome and all (polite) comments are equally welcome.
>
> Hope to see more people getting involved soon.
> Regards.
> --
> E. Sammer
> esammer@g.o
> Gentoo Linux - http://www.gentoo.org
>
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>
>

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