Joey Hess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Martin Schulze wrote: > > . Our boot-floppies are not ready yet. Freezing the distribution > > without working boot-floppies will extend the freeze time which > > would be a very bad idea. Adam di Carlo today told me that he > > doesn't believe that our boot-floppies will be read before > > January. (Since I haven't been able to work on them I can't say > > anything about that.) > > We've already done successful (nfs!) installs with the potato boot floppies, > though there are of course glitches.
Mssr Schultz misinterpreted my comments. We *do* have working boot-floppies now, although they are not yet feature complete. There are many critical features which aren't yet implemented (task selection, automatic CD detection and apt's sources.list configurator). I think we can get a feature complete boot-floppies in 2-3 weeks. > > Therefore I propose to postpone the freeze (and the release) for at > > least two months, hoping to get the FHS issue, Incoming and > > boot-floppies resolved. > > I would much rather go to a slushy freeze now and make it a more solid > freeze when some of these issues have had time to be worked on more. > Delaying the freeze is just going to let other issues develop. Well, I don't know what slushy freeze means. The question is whether you want a short freeze or a long freeze. If you want a short freeze, then we're kinda getting into hot water with the whole christmas/new years vacation coming up. Furthermore, as pointed out, there are a number of issues which would prevent a freeze now from being very successful. However, tactically, maybe Richard is threatening to freeze in a week or so just to motivate people to work on RC bugs. -- .....Adam Di [EMAIL PROTECTED]<URL:http://www.onShore.com/>
