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  • From: Andrew <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>
  • To: sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] Let's make Source Mage not suck!
  • Date: Mon, 1 Jan 2007 14:06:09 -0800

On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 12:46:50PM -0800, Eric Sandall wrote:
> Quoting Andrew Stitt <afrayedknot AT thefrayedknot.armory.com>:
> > On Mon, Jan 01, 2007 at 05:52:06PM +0500, Alexander Tsamutali wrote:
> >> Our main problems, IMHO:
> > <snip>
> <snip>
> > I've made my opinion on this known many times:
> > ISOs, we need more attention paid to ISO development and a more frequent
> > iso development schedule. ISO's are the only thing we produce that
> > distrowatch and other main linux distro websites will mention.
> > More news on other sites means more traffic to our site. More
> > traffic -> more installs -> more users -> more developers.
>
> I agree here, and in that vein I have been helping out with the
> stable/stable-rc integration work. Currently there are no bugs against
> stable-rc (though that's mainly because I haven't moved the bugs filed
> against test when it was snapshotted into stable-rc into stable-rc)
> and there are no requests to integrate fixes into stable-rc left. Once
> stable-rc is deemed "good enough" (with a Prometheus run against it,
> at least on x86 architecture and the bugs fixed that we find) then we
> can probably release a new stable, which is the main holdup of a new
> ISO.

I disagree that the lack new stable grimoires are the main holdup of
a new iso. They might have been in the past, but not in the present.
We've had several stable releases and not a corresponding number of
isos. Nor is there a released iso for the latest stable grimoire.
Certainly there was also talk of weekly or monthly "devel" isos using
the latest
test grimoire.

Im not trying to blame anyone or group for the lack of isos. But I want
to make sure we correctly assess why there aren't new isos. I dont know
what the holdup is now, but I am unconvinced its because of lack of
stable grimoires.

Of course, this assumes that the project's prefered course of action in
making smgl not suck is indeed to make more isos. However we haven't come
to consensus on that, and we might not want to get ahead of ourselves. :-)

-Andrew

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