Frank Murphy wrote:
But in the interim, they should work as a pure "update"
disk\stick
whatever. I will try liaise with the Unity ppl,
see what sort of feedback they have had, re the re-spins.
I'm both the composer of the Fedora Unity Re-Spins, as well as an
Ambassador to the Fedora Project, like lots of the people within Fedora
Unity, so I'll be watching this thread as well ;-)
The feedback on Fedora Unity Re-Spins vary;
Some people are very, very much appreciative to the fixes that are in
the Fedora Unity Re-Spins, because they enable them to install or deploy
Fedora in a way that turned out to not be possible with GA media
(General Availability media). Things that are fixed in the Fedora Unity
Re-Spins may vary from i586 hardware compatibility, to simple fixes in
pykickstart that simply needed to be during the media compose.
Some people come in #fedora-unity on FreeNode or log in to
bugs.fedoraunity.org explicitly requesting we fix a certain issue with
the next release of our Re-Spins, which, if we find their use-case
appealing and if we think we can fix it (and test the fix), we'll
happily do.
Some people come in #fedora-unity or mail us requesting when the next
Re-Spin is to be released, and/or whether we are planning on doing a
Re-Spin for a given Fedora release any time soon.
Needless to say, the Fedora Unity Re-Spins are often much anticipated
for by the community, as well as utilized a great deal (we see thousands
of downloads a month).
This, for Fedora Unity at least, are the reasons, amongst others, we
think make it very much worth our efforts in creating and testing and
distributing the Re-Spins. Whether it is something the FreeMedia program
wishes to adopt when distributing Fedora amongst those that request Free
Media, is up to you ;-)
Kind regards,
Jeroen van Meeuwen
-kanarip