Hi, It's been a while since there were any news on how the development of the next release is going, so I thought I might give some status update (now that I'm back from my trip, with regular internet access again).
In a nutshell: all efforts have been directed to make the ISO build environment (the scripts, files and repositories from which the ISO is generated) friendlier to collaborative development. This means that the ISO itself has been a bit stalled both featurewise and, errr, bugfixwise, but the idea is that once we have a decent environment where a number of geographically spread people can work with in a distributed manner, then the work will progress in a much faster pace than was ever possible (except perhaps when all of the devs used to sit around a single computer ;) ). To recap: in the olden days, work on the CD was done by actually taking the officially distributed ISO, copying it to the system, tweaking it and then generating a new ISO. In practice, it was not possible for 2 people to work on the CD without substantial merging efforts later: there was no keeping track of what had changed; it was easy to modify things without actually noticing it; etc. Now, since Carlo's MasterLiveCD tarball, all bits and pieces that form the CD are fetched from the appropriate places and then combined to form the ISO. This makes it clear what comes from where and where to change things to have them applied to the ISO. By using UnionFS when tweaking the CD, one can also keep track of the changes easily. Lucas, André and I have been tweaking the MasterLiveCD tools (which were themselves based on the older CompressAndBuildISO script and on some stuff from ChrootCompile) to make them (a) conceptually simpler, (b) faster to build, (c) easier to keep a local copy in sync with the main repository, (d) easier to make, identify and commit changes. I believe we made good progress in (a), (b) and (c) (with still some more to go for (b) and (c)); the transition to the UnionFS-based model improved (d), but committing changes is still a bit of a handful. -- Hisham _______________________________________________ gobolinux-devel mailing list gobolinux-devel@lists.gobolinux.org http://lists.gobolinux.org/mailman/listinfo/gobolinux-devel
