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

[Tom Lisjac]

On 4/10/05, Colin Charles <byte at aeon.com.my> wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-04-10 at 11:44 -0600, Tom Lisjac wrote:

> > How about a project website, cvs and download mirrors?
> 
> ... cvs/download mirrors, well, more work needs to be done first

>From my experience, the work tends to get done when there's a place
for posting and sharing results. Since some of the largest components
of this project currently exist, the release early, release often
stuff could potentially start as soon as some basic architectural
decisions are made.
 
> > Last but not least, leadership. Is there a "benevolent dictator" at
> > this point? :)
> 
> No, aptly described, its anyone "that get's shit done"; 

That model seems to work pretty well when a project starts with a
single idea or a blank page... but that's not the case here.

Neville has a complete (and excellent!) FC3 based CD and build system
available right now. Steve has offered his Rookery Build system that
looks very promising. I've also developed an architecture called
EpikBuilder for creatiing CD, UML or disk images from rpm
repositories:

http://theseus.sourceforge.net/index.php?wiki=EpikBuilder

... and I'll bet there are probably others on this list who have some
great code and ideas to offer. The other GPL'ed live CD
implementations are also available to borrow ideas and code from:

http://distrowatch.com/dwres.php?resource=cd

So IMHO, most of the hard work has already been done. What's needed
now is a unifying spec or wishlist that can be used to pick, choose
and merge the best parts of all this good stuff into a Fedora specific
build system. I'd be willing to draft a strawman spec for you all to
laugh at if one doesn't already exist. :)

-Tom