Dear Debian Live team Recently, there has been some good discussion about the future of Debian Live images[1]. One problem that particularly stood out was lack of testing Debian Live during the stretch cycle and very little testing right before release.
For Buster, I propose that we aim to release alphas and betas regularly, as close as possible to the debian-installer releases which have been really good at doing those in the last few cycles. On Friday night Steve kicked off builds that we could use for an alpha, which uses the freshly released d-i alpha. I went ahead and mostly tested the amd64 images already, i386 still needs to be tested and I hope to get to those today if no one beats me to it. More information about where to get images and how test it: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/buster/iso-testing/alpha-1 Draft release notes: https://wiki.debian.org/DebianLive/buster/iso-testing/alpha-1/release-notes This happened a bit spur of the moment, so apologies for not communicating better on this list. We should have better co-ordination and hopefully much improved testing infrastructure with every following upcoming alpha release. Thanks for reading! -Jonathan [1] https://lists.debian.org/debian-live/2017/06/msg00064.html
