Dave Miner wrote: > Karen Tung wrote: >> Dave Miner wrote: >>> This discussion seems like it's gone a bit off the rails. Karen, if >>> your goal is to provide direction to the intern team, then I'd >>> suggest drawing a very clear line to scope a set of functionality >>> that is possible for them to complete given the constraints in time >>> and experience. It seems like we've wandered into larger, >>> longer-term goals which this particular team is unlikely to meet. >>> >>> Dave >> Hi Dave, >> >> When I sent out the original email, my intention was to discuss what >> functionalities >> we want to have in the text installer, even in the longer term. >> When we are clear on which direction we are going, we can then define >> the set of functionalities they can implement depending on the amount >> of time and experience they have. >> >> I think that whatever code they write should be in the direction of >> where we want to >> go in the future, so, we can use their work as a starting point or as >> a prototype, >> and add other functionalities in the future. What I wanted to avoid >> is that they >> do something now which is not the direction we want to go, and their >> work >> will be completely thrown away. >> > > Agree with all of that, but want to ensure that you get to closure > quickly so that the team doesn't spend 50% of their tenure waiting for > requirements. > To summarize what I have read, sounds like the project baseline for the student team is to take the GUI installer and replace the GUI with a curses UI for both x86 and SPARC.
Maybe extra credit for improved support for server installs, primarily setting a static IP. Additional options e.g. use of AI backend, net install, etc. would be handled as follow-on projects. Frank
