Who is providing the progress messages? I can help review.

Also, I looked at iso image for build 85 and the welcome screen did not 
have the corrected docs links that I'd provided. Are those corrections
in build 86?  Build 86 is not yet available for me to look at.

Barbara


Frank Ludolph wrote:
> Niall Power wrote:
>   
>> I installed from a test iso today and saw the new progress messages during 
>> the installation phase.
>> I think the appropriateness of some is debatable. Once the target 
>> instantiation bit was done and the transfer phase began, the messages I saw 
>> were as follows:
>>
>> 1. "Building cpio file lists"
>> 2. "Transferring LiveCD Contents"
>> 3. "Fixing zero-length files"
>> 4. "Extracting archives"
>> 5. "Cleaning up"
>>
>> 1 and 3 definitely seem unsuitable to me. There is too much implementation 
>> specific
>> information that indicates how rather than what is being done, at least to 
>> my mind.
>> These messages should not be treated like a debug log.
>>
>> Thoughts?
>>   
>>     
> I agree. Those two refer to internal implementation rather than stating 
> the activity from an understandable end user point of view. Even 4 is 
> questionable.
>
> Frank
>   
>> Cheers,
>> Niall.
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