[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- proposal for livecd filesystem layout changes
Jeremy Katz
katzj at redhat.com
Fri Sep 21 01:06:29 UTC 2007
On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:43 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Douglas McClendon wrote:
> >> How about we split livecd-iso-to-disk into its own package,
> >> specifically because of the use-case scenario of a user just wanting
> >> to put their newly downloaded f8-livecd on usb, without any need or
> >> interest in full-blown livecd-creation?
> >>
> >> And install it by default, perhaps even in the minimal base spin config?
> >
> > This sounds like a good idea especially if we provide a menu option to
> > make this feature more visible to users and reviewers who don't read the
> > release notes which is unfortunately quite a lot.
>
> I could throw together a ghetto zenity gui pretty quickly. The only
> user interaction is
[snip]
> I'm curious, what kind of deadlines should I be thinking about for this
> and other livecd related things.
Technically speaking, features should mostly be done prior to the
feature freeze (test2). How much of a feature this is could be
arguable, though.
> I.e. the f8 devel freeze is Oct 4th, as of f8t3 release. But then there
> is an f8t3 devel freeze as of Sept 25th (along with translation freeze).
>
> What sort of development is considered acceptable between those two dates?
Bugfixes only. The big difference is the severity of bugs fixed changes
as of Oct 4th.
> Obviously I would like to get anything in by say... tonight, so that
> Jeremy has time to decide to accept it and commit it before tuesday,
> and then not try to get anything in after that.
>
> And would this theoretical gui livecd-iso-to-disk separate package fall
> outside the scope of even the oct-4th devel freeze, because it is a
> 'new' package?
If we don't install it by default, then it would be reasonable to put
in. So given that livecd-tools isn't installed by default anywhere, in
that respect, we could just put it in. But Rahul I think wants it
installed by default.
That said, in any case, I'm willing to put it on a branch for now
Jeremy
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