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  • From: David Kowis <dkowis AT shlrm.org>
  • To: sm-discuss <sm-discuss AT lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [SM-Discuss] ISO spell installation method (Was: [Private mail]Cauldron Team Email Meeting)
  • Date: Fri, 03 Jun 2005 16:35:09 -0500

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Karsten Behrmann wrote:
> Hi everyone!
> We're doing some thinking on the ISO team about where we should go and
> be with the ISOs by 1.0.
> As I'm doing the installer, I've done some thinking on how the installer
> should install the spells. We're looking at several requirements:
> 1. Ease to maintain (fix and update)
> 2. Keep ISO size down
> 3. It should work

I'm going to be nitpicky here and pick your nits about this one.
Those are terrible requirements. Not terrible as in they're not things we
want,
but terrible as in quantifiable.

Easy to maintain.
How can this be measured?
Perhaps better would be:
- - Installer will be modularly built, such that each module is one menu item
in
the installer.

Keep ISO size down.
Below what threshold are we talking about here? To me under 700MB is fine. But
that my not be sufficiently small for others. IIRC, the community wants it to
remain under 200Mb for those little card CDs?
- - Total ISO size will remain at or below 200mb as a finished product.

It should work.
These type of requirements are perhaps the most difficult to define. The only
way to quantify such a thing is to perhaps determine a number of bugs found
per
test. Similar to the way the Stable Grimoire's are "certified."
- - A stable ISO release should have no more than X bugs filed against it.

Then we can measure such things and determine if they've been met.
To me this means that we can prove to the Source Mage Community that we've met
the requirements that they've helped define and we can have an ISO we're all
proud of.

Thanks for letting me rant about this one, even if you didn't actually read
this
far :)

David
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