Hi, [email protected] wrote (21 Jun 2014 12:57:00 GMT) : > Did you consider issuing an IUK that would only update liveusb-creator > in 1.0.1? It could be published in parallel with Tails 1.1 or a few days > in advance.
I've briefly considered it, and then more or less disregarded it silently due to the larger amount of work, our scarse resources, and the fact we're (I'm) already late and overwhelmed with everything we need to fix in time for 1.1. Of course, providing such an IUK would imply a nicer UX to those who can install it. We still have to somehow deal with the others, though: e.g. those running from a boot medium that's not been created by Tails Installer, or on a stick that hasn't enough free space available anymore, or on a system that has not enough free memory. Given the current state of the 1.1 milestone, and the announced release schedule, I'm not sure that we have the resources to build/test/provide the IUK *and* to prepare/test/document the apt-get update+install steps. If we have, fine. Else, we have to decide for which users we want to optimize. Personally, on the principle I'm fine with optimizing for those who have a boot device created by Tails Installer, *but* it's way more work to validate the IUK (see below), and 1.0.1 still has the crazy-high memory limits when checking for upgrades that'll be fixed in 1.1, so I'm afraid we could leave too many users on the "Upgrade from ISO is unsupported" side if we go this way. > The shitty part of this would be the ISO building and testing of that > IUK, but maybe we can find a trick to create an IUK with that upgrade > only, without having to go through the whole RM process. We can probably imagine a few such tricks, and it would be good to have on the long term. I don't see how we can validate these tricks without going through the whole test suite, but at least we can skip most of the release process. Cheers, -- intrigeri _______________________________________________ Tails-dev mailing list [email protected] https://mailman.boum.org/listinfo/tails-dev To unsubscribe from this list, send an empty email to [email protected].
