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For those that have been lurking around the #gentoo-installer channel, |
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you may have noticed a recent surge in activity. No, I'm serious. Really. |
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SM[1] has picked up the controller code and run with it. He's made some |
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impressive progress, solidifying many of the ideas that we've received. |
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Additionally, two people, independent of each other, have come up with |
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working front ends using the controller code. Now, the really cool thing |
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is that both PC[2] and SM have built *working* front ends (of course, |
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super-mega-supreme-alpha status and more of a proof of concept than a |
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final product) that perform at least a simplistic install. The really |
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cool thing is that this shows how developers can take advantage of the |
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design of the code base to do things the way they want. This will allow |
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for many different kinds of clients - automated, GUI, command line, |
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curses, text - whatever you fancy. A huge thumbs up to these two guys |
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who have put in some awesome effort. |
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There have been numerous refinements to other parts of the code |
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including the client configuration, install profile class as well as the |
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profiles themselves, and the controller described above. |
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Work and discussion continues on the partitioning code. This is going to |
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be the death of us. Seriously. |
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Coordination with the Gentoo Release Engineering team has begun. The |
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friendly RelEng folks reached out a helpful hand to us and offered to |
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provide assistance with integrating with the livecds as well as planning |
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for an initial release date. That's right, I said it: *A RELEASE DATE!* |
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A (currently still) tentative date of the 2005.0 release of Gentoo has |
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been set for the installer. Read it and weep (for joy or pain, you decide). |
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The previously mentioned developer PC has been providing bug fixes, |
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suggestions, and improvements to the project as a whole. He's a great |
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addition to our little community. Stay tuned for another announcement |
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regarding this chap in the near future. (Hint hint, nudge, nudge.) |
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We are going to have another "live" meeting in #gentoo-installer |
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(freenode) where we will go over status in real time, talk about the |
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release date, goals, contributions, and coordination with the releng |
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team as well as live cd requirements for the "official" client front end. |
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As always, feedback, comments, constructive criticism, patches, bug |
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fixes, documentation authoring, and support are all welcome both on this |
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list and the channel. Speak now or forever hold your potentially good |
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ideas for improvements! |
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[1] Scott Myron - samyron on freenode. |
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[2] Preston Cody - codeman on freenode. |
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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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