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On Sun, 2004-05-02 at 15:04, Paul de Vrieze wrote: |
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> On Sunday 02 May 2004 21:49, John Davis wrote: |
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> > Devs, |
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> > I very much like this idea - I think that a LiveCD release for each |
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> > cycle is a bit too ambitious, especially with regard to how many bugs |
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> > they field. The only thing that we would have to negotiate is the |
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> > universal CD which contains distfiles and stages for a networkless |
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> > installation. We could discuss through that at a later date though |
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> > (2005.x integration if we decide upon it). |
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> Maybe the livecd could be partially updated: new stages and GRP packages, but |
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> the other parts the same. This would stop most bugs. |
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> Paul |
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Yeah, this would be great. Our livecd is the first thing users see when |
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they first try installing Gentoo. If it appears to have any sort of bugs |
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on it, they start to lose faith in the distro at a very early stage. |
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Minimizing bugs on the livecd should be very important because of this |
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(of course, stages, grp packages should have minimal bugs as well). |
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Perhaps, if there are known issues that couldn't be resolved before a |
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release (we should always fix a bug before a release if possible), maybe |
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we should have a message right after the prompt comes up that states |
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something about the bug. I know it would be better to just fix the darn |
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thing, but the more information we give to our issues about known |
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problems, the better! It also minimizes on dup'ed bugs. |
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