On Wed, Sep 02, 2015 at 01:53:24AM +0200, Cyril Brulebois wrote: >Hi… Hi KiBi!
Apologies for going dark for a couple of days - Debian-UK BBQ then massive cold that left me half-dead... :-( Catching up on stuff slowly now. >> While I'm happy that meetings and discussions take place at DebConf, I'm >> not comfortable with those being a replacement for discussions on >> mailing lists. >> >> I don't think it's reasonable to expect people to be able to follow all >> of those (there are too many tracks, not all of them are recorded, and >> many other reasons…), be it on site or by watching the streams / videos >> after the facts. ACK. If it wasn't for the post-debconf flu I'd have already publicised this widely. >> I've seen no answer for the last two questions: >> > > Where was the discussion? What's the rationale? Where do we point >> > > people to? >> >> I could mention that “it was decided to drop all non-netinst CDs”, but I >> wouldn't quite like doing so without having a reference to point people >> to. Even commit messages don't explain the reason behind this change. >> >> On a personal level again: I would really prefer understanding this >> change and documenting it properly (be it in the d-i release announce, >> in installation-guide, on the website -- many links to change! -- etc.), >> instead of adding a vague “debian-cd decided so” label onto this change. >> >> What about publishing fixes for stuff broken in Stretch Alpha 2 through >> Stretch Alpha 3 (which was my initial plan), and trying to that properly >> another time? > >Would it be possible to get some kind of timeframe for this please? More >changes reach testing as time passes, and avoiding getting too huge a >gap between d-i upload and actual image builds would be nice; I lifted >all block-udebs as building was supposed to happen right after >copy-installer; other regressions/changes can pop up there at any time… > >I could understand if that was postponed until after the upcoming >weekend due to both wheezy and jessie point releases (in which case I >might re-upload debian-installer to account for newer udeb updates, then >block subsequent udeb migrations), but as I explained past week, it >would be nice on our users to deal with the current, known breakages >in a timely fashion. I can do a rebuild including CDs tonight, if you like, or we can wait until after the point releases. What would you prefer? -- Steve McIntyre, Cambridge, UK. [email protected] "Further comment on how I feel about IBM will appear once I've worked out whether they're being malicious or incompetent. Capital letters are forecast." Matthew Garrett, http://www.livejournal.com/users/mjg59/30675.html
