On Sun, 6 Sep 2009 16:30:00 -0600
Keith Hinton
Hi, As one of Chris Branon's friends, and as one who has submitted valuable feedback, I'd like to see Chrisses CD get more support from the Arch team leads, etc. I'ld like that too. The reason I didn't do much here is pure lack of time. And I probably speak for most of us.
I also have another suggestion. Why couldn't core snapshots be automatically generated, yeah we should do that at some point and Chrisses CD/and the other official images could be all updated? As newer kernels came out, we could even get weekly/monthly netiso images automatically wich each core update, so that we'd never have to worry about waiting for 2 3 4 months or whatever. :) sorry I'm out of the loop. is there a common place (wiki page)/project page/..? I know we've mailed around at several points in time, there should be a central place to keep information and to work on this stuff.
Just a suggestion, only. I don't expect that this could be automated. I'm just suggesting something, nothing more. But the fact that this CD of chirsses is unofficial isn't great. He does a wonderful job. I'd like to see him get more people who could build CDs, or whatever. That way he doesn't have to do all the work, and can focuss on maintaing Speakup/etc. Maybe an #Arch-Accessibility channel should be created with an associated mailing list. Your thoughts? I welcome anyone including Chris and anyone else who feels that Accessibility is important to comment on this. I will CC this to Arch-General as well so that the community in general can be made aware of this. Also, I wanted to ask why weekly builds couldn't be done? I'm talking about autobuilds, btw, taht use your isoscripts. I have seen other distros that offer accessibilty I.e. GRML, etc, wich have automatic CDs. Gentoo now has minimal stage3 tarballs, and automated snapshots, etc.
Just curious why Arch hasn't done somethinglike this.
lack of time
Thanks so much all, happy arching, and have fun! :) P.s. My favorite feature of the LiveCD (I've only used Chrisses bc I can't use the others) is that you folks don't start anything we don't want. This might also be a nice way to have chrisses work ported to AMD64, not just I386. Maybe someone has an 64-bit box to test chrisses CDs on? :)
Regards, --Keith
Dieter