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