Am 17.03.2011 16:50, schrieb Dieter Plaetinck: > Gerhard is inactive. > Since I'm the only other releng person, some people expect me to do it, > even though I don't like being involved in archiso and I already spend > a lot of time on all other releng tasks (aif, image building, image > testing, releasing, ...) > Gerardo knows archiso and has commit access to it, but he also has > little time and he never made any commitment to us in any way (he is > just a community member).
Gerardo has done some work in the past, but not in the last 3 months. This is worse than I thought: I saw Gerardo reply to some patch sent, but he never commited it. I even sent him an email if he could finish some cool work that I started, but he never got back to me. I assumed he was semi-active, which apparently is false. (The work I started was about making a self-contained image in the /arch/ directory on the ISO. This is partially done already, but I recently succeeded in moving /syslinux/ into /arch/ and only leave behind a tiny /boot/ directory that would chdir() to /arch/boot/syslinux when loading. This would further simplify installing onto an existing vfat USB drive, as you only need to 1) copy the whole /arch folder 2) extlinux --install /mnt/arch/boot/syslinux 3) adjust the archisolabel in the syslinux configuration files) > Thomas (and a few other devs) know archiso and has commit access, but > he also has more then enough Arch stuff on his plate. Hell, and I can't even get that done. If someone can collect the pending patches from this list (and maybe Gerardo's github) for me, I can check and apply them. But I guess we desperately need a maintainer for archiso. It is a task with not a lot to do, but still needs to be done.
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