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  • From: Benoit PAPILLAULT <benoit.papillault AT sourcemage.org>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] [Cauldron] Meeting Planning
  • Date: Mon, 03 Jan 2005 17:23:37 +0100

Andrew a écrit :

Sounds good. I want to add a few ideas, I think one goal (perhaps the
first and foremost) should be that using the iso generation scripts (and
having identical config files), anyone can make exactly the same iso,
so that way everyone is on the same page and theres no question about
who is rolling the official iso because it'd be the same. It should
be a deterministic process for /everyone/.

The first goal is to make ISO that can be used to install Source Mage. But you are right about having a reproducible system. That's why I have tried my best to make everything done by scripts. Any person joining the ISO team should try those scripts and enhanced them and commit the modifications back to our p4 repository (//sgl/devel/cauldron/devel/iso/generation-scripts/scripts/).

Also I think some people have brought this up, not sure who exactly but
having periodically generated testing iso's available would be helpful.
That way for a period of time the rest of us developers and friends can
try it out to verify our bugfixes before publishing a major stable iso.
I for one volunteer to try them out each period (within reason :))
and give some feedback.

That would be good. We can do that on a monthly bassis for instance (my upload bandwidth is quite limited).

It might even be feasable to do those periodic iso generations on our
mirror or at least on a machine all the iso team members have access
to with reasonable bandwidth. It might make collaboration a little
easier.

Yes. That would solve the bandwidth problem. However, it requires a lot of things and especially root access. Who/where can host that stuff?

It would seem contradictory to the "same iso anywhere" idea initially,
but also it seems to compliment it. One can try things out on their
local machine, if theyre good then commit to perforce, and the shared
machine will produce the same results for others to try (and others can
update from perforce and roll the same iso).

-Andrew

Benoit PAPILLAULT, ISO guru




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