On 22.12.2007 14:32, Jesse Keating wrote:
On Sat, 22 Dec 2007 13:15:47 +0530
"Debarshi 'Rishi' Ray" <debarshi.ray(a)gmail.com> wrote:
>> Maybe half way through as in Fedora 8.5 or something like that
>> where all the common bugs get fixed?
> Not all fixes, but just the installer specific ones would be enough.
This assumes that the installer from F8 would get updates. It
doesn't. Installer work is entirely done on the /next/ release, and
interspersed with all the new features we're doing. To require the
installer folks to work on updates to the old installer would be a sure
way to stagnate future development.
Sorry, I might be shortsighted, but why is the installer different to
other packages? Sure, it's a bit more work to produce updates for older
releases, but isn't that what we do everywhere else as well? So why
can't the installer guys do it as well?
Further: we create update images like
http://katzj.fedorapeople.org/updates-f8-yumloop.img
so those problems we are talking about get analyzed and fixed already.
But the fix is hard to access for some people; and it's a extra step you
need to know about. All we'd need to do is to get this and similar
*small* updates into a updated install iso image and we'd make a lot
people happy that currently have a hard time installing Fedora.
Cu
knurd