Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-05 Thread Tollef Fog Heen
* Eduard Bloch | From my point of view, we could have released Sarge one year after Woody | with boot-floppies. The only thing needed was a bit more man power from | the porters. Instead, most of the "core team" and the BFs porters | stopped to work on it. And without manpower (motivated people),

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
#include * Steve Langasek [Sat, Dec 04 2004, 05:30:38AM]: > > From my point of view, we could have released Sarge one year after Woody > > with boot-floppies. The only thing needed was a bit more man power from > > the porters. Instead, most of the "core team" and the BFs porters > > stopped to w

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Gunnar Wolf
Cesar Martinez Izquierdo dijo [Sun, Nov 28, 2004 at 01:25:49PM +0100]: > Yes, we have more packages now, but we also have more developers to deal with > them. And we always have a big pool of people that wish to become DD, so man > power is not the problem, in my opinion. Remember that more peop

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Steve Langasek
On Fri, Dec 03, 2004 at 11:52:08PM +0100, Eduard Bloch wrote: > From my point of view, we could have released Sarge one year after Woody > with boot-floppies. The only thing needed was a bit more man power from > the porters. Instead, most of the "core team" and the BFs porters > stopped to work on

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-04 Thread Eduard Bloch
Moin Thiemo! Thiemo Seufer schrieb am Montag, den 29. November 2004: > > > Well, if people had been willing to maintain it, yes. But there didn't > > > seem to be any significant interest in doing so. > > > > On the other hand, it worked already. > > Yes, it worked once upon a time. Without 2.6

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
Steve Langasek wrote: > The "existing installer" used a kernel that is not being shipped in sarge, > and would have installed this kernel, with all its vulnerabilities and lack > of drivers, onto the installed system as well. Partially wrong. It would have done that only on the perhaps 15% of mode

Re: Finding an improved release process.

2004-12-02 Thread Joey Hess
John Goerzen wrote: > On the other hand, it worked already. So have you ever ported boot-floppies to a new major kernel version? I have (partially). Not fun. > We seem to decide we have to > rewrite the installer from scratch for each new release, and it seems to > slow us down each time. We've