On Sat, 18 Jun 2011 23:20:33 -0500 Yaro Kasear <yaro@marupa.net> wrote:
I'm talking about the images found here: http://www.archlinux.org/download/
We're long overdue for a new "snapshot" (...)
The "automatic network configuration" is broken now that networking in Archlinux has changed how it works, for example.
reported bug? provided patch?
So, I'm asking a simple question, with the dm-snapshot its being merged into the mainline releng, does this mean that we won't have to wait terribly much longer for a new image?
nope, nothing to do with it. in fact this is disruptive and may cause some regressions.
Because, frankly, we could have easily soon (...blah blah)
There are way too few contributions, if things go as they are going now, we might see a new release at the end of the year, or next year. If more people in the community would contribute bugfixes the process could go quicker. Dieter