Re: Volunteer needed: Snapshot live image project

[Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org>]

No one is currently maintaining the rPath images - I've talked to the
developers at the last 2 GNOME releases and they no longer have the
time.

Paul

On Thu, Dec 9, 2010 at 10:24 AM, Sriram Ramkrishna <sri ramkrishna me> wrote:
> I believe someone was maintaining an rpath appliance.  The live cds used to
> come from that some time ago.  I rather we only have one solution instead of
> multiple.  If Frederic is going to do it then I'll back off.
>
> sri
>
> On Wed, Dec 8, 2010 at 9:16 AM, Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com> wrote:
>>
>> On Wed, 2010-12-08 at 07:20 +0100, Frederic Crozat wrote:
>> > >  * As automated as possible but no more so. We probably at least need
>> > >   some sort of manual QA to make sure that the top download link
>> > >   is for a snapshot that isn't entirely broken.
>> > >
>> > > Anybody interested in taking on this project?
>> >
>> > I've already started to work on a GNOME-Shell GIT ISO, using both OBS
>> > (http://build.opensuse.org/) which does now support source service,
>> > allowing easy packaging from git snapshots, and SUSE Studio to
>> > generate the ISO (or USB image) itself (also, I'd like to use OBS to
>> > generate the image, so it could be generate one time in a raw).
>> >
>> > In addition to your requirement (except maybe the prefix thing, but it
>> > can be easily modified), we could have automatic update handling for
>> > the GIT package, so people wouldn't have to regenerate their entire
>> > USB stick.
>> >
>> > Any opposition ?
>>
>> While there are some appealing advantages to actually having the GNOME
>> bits on live CD built with jhbuild:
>>
>>  * We get a 3-way uniform build process between build.gnome.org, the
>>   developers working on GNOME, and the live CD. If build.gnome.org
>>   is green, the live CD will work.
>>
>>  * We are forced to do do everything in jhbuild and not add on extra
>>   stuff in the packaging layer to "make it work"
>>
>> Really, any way we can get this going is good with me! The main point is
>> to get the latest code into the hands of users. Details like where
>> things are installed are definitely secondary. So, if you have something
>> going with OBS, that sounds great.
>>
>> - Owen
>>
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