Thanks for keeping us informed I, personally, appreciate it. Just one question. What is stopping the Live team, which I am assuming you now coordinate, just fixing the bugs that were filed against live-build and concentrating on live-build rather than reinventing the wheel with live-wrapper?
Cheers. Michael. On 15 December 2015 at 05:36, Iain R. Learmonth <i...@debian.org> wrote: > Hi All, > > Following Daniel's retirement from the Debian Live project, a number of > things > have become orphaned. This includes both software projects and services > that > were previously provided by Daniel's server. > > You will have noticed that the live.debian.net service disappeared. The > big > things that people have had issues with are the live-build CGI frontend > disappearing and the hosted copies of live-manual disappearing. > > We are currently in the process of setting up hosted copies of live-manual > at: > > http://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ > > This is a work-in-progress and we ask that you are patient while we get > this > sorted out. We only really have the git repository and the Debian packages > to > go on, so we have to do a bit of figuring things out before we can get this > working. > > If you'd like to track the progress with hosted copies of live-manual, you > can > do that on Debian bug #807954. (http://bugs.debian.org/807954) > > As for the live-build CGI frontend, this is not something that we are > currently > working on. I personally do not feel that it is critical to the mission of > the > Debian Live team, although I would support anyone that wanted to revive the > service. > > You can find more details on this in Debian bug #807957. Please follow up > there > if you are interested. (http://bugs.debian.org/807957) > > Looking at packages maintained by the Debian Live team, there are a number > of > generic packages that are relevant to Debian live images in general, and > then > there are the live-build specific packages. > > In the first category are: live-boot, live-config and live-tools. We will > be > actively maintaining these packages going forward and ensuring that they > remain > usable by both live-build and live-wrapper for as long as live-build > remains in > the Debian archives. > > No one has yet come forward to take over as a technical lead for > live-build. > Daniel has removed himself as an uploader from this package. According to > Debian Policy §5.6.3, this leaves the package technically orphaned. > > live-manual is also live-build specific, and while we do have people > working on > the documentation side of things, live-manual would disappear if > live-build was > to disappear. This package is also technically orphaned as per Policy > §5.6.3 > although we expect an upload for this package to happen soon. > > live-wrapper is the area where I am going to be focussing the majority of > my > efforts within Debian Live and this will be the tool used to produce the > official Debian live images when stretch is released. live-wrapper uses > live-boot, live-config and live-tools and the aim will be to support the > majority of the features that live-build supported. live-wrapper will > however > not be a drop-in replacement and there is definitely a case to be made for > the > continued development of live-build. > > The following should help you find the resources at their new locations > where > they have been moved from Daniel's server: > > * Homepage: https://www.debian.org/CD/live > * Development Homepage: https://www.debian.org/devel/debian-live/ > * Development Documentation: https://debian-live.alioth.debian.org/ > * Mailing List: debian-live@lists.debian.org > * Mailing List Archives: https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/ > * IRC: #debian-live on OFTC > * Alioth Project: https://alioth.debian.org/projects/debian-live/ > * VCS Browser: https://anonscm.debian.org/cgit/debian-live/ > > Thanks, > Iain. > > -- >
