[Fedora-spins] I need content for your spin's webpage- by Fri Oct 16

[David Huff]

On 10/19/2009 05:33 PM, Jesse Keating wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-10-19 at 10:47 -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
>> Per the torrent server it received almost 1,000 downloads for F11.
> 
> But we don't know how many of those were just "download everything and
> seed" people.
> 
>>
>> More to the point, what is required for the spin to be there, that
>> isn't/wasn't being done along the way?  Do the AOS spin maintainers
>> understand that requirement properly? 
> 
> I think all the required stuff was there for it to be there, but since
> it uses a different compose tool it didn't get done in my compose
> script, and I noticed too late for Alpha.  I then waited for anybody to
> notice that it wasn't there any more, which nobody did, and decided to
> play the same game for Beta.  Making spins is not a trivial task, nor is
> hosting them.  If we aren't driving anybody to the spin or if the
> absence of the spin goes unnoticed, one has to wonder if the time and
> effort is worth it.


I admit that the AOS is not currently top priority of my day Job, which
is why I did not notice it was missing in Alpha, however my
understanding is that everything was in place, and was on schedule to
ship with F12.

I also understand that there is still demand for a small version of
Fedora, form ISV's and others who want to add there own apps on a
small-footprint spin.

If the AOS is going to miss F12, which is not optimal, I think there are
a couple issue that need to be addressed.  First I think I need to
better understand the compose process of a spin and maybe we should
rethink the distribution method of the AOS, tarball vs iso image.

So two questions:
- Will the AOS make F12?
- What needs to change to make rel-eng life easier so this does not
happen again?


-D