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