[Fedora-livecd-list] Project goals and infrastructure...

[Havoc Pennington]

On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 11:44 -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:
> At this point, it might be helpful to try and define the goals for the
> project a little more clearly... for example, what are we planning to
> deliver? Is the goal to create a generic build system for generating
> customized Fedora bootable CD's... or are we trying to assemble a "one
> size fits all" release with a flexible set of startup options?

To me the most important thing is to be sure a live CD can be cut from
rawhide, or any test release or final release (modulo bugs of course). 

In other words the really important goal is to have a "convert this
Fedora to Live CD" system rather than a one-off fork at a given point in
time.

I personally think that for a variety of reasons all packages should be
changed to work fine by default on a read-only filesystem, and detection
of hardware should all be dynamic, so essentially the live CD changes
should all be able to go "upstream" (into the standard packages)
eventually. But doing that in the first cut probably isn't realistic.

> Last but not least, leadership. Is there a "benevolent dictator" at
> this point? :)

Whoever does the work ;-)

Havoc