On Wed, 19 May 2010 00:54:10 -0400
"Keith Hinton"
Do you folks start the process as soon as a "official release" is made from the Arch repository?
I usually take a while off after a release ;)
I know the general process, thanks to Dieter. What I am so curious about is if anything can be done (while not a developer) I am able, to test various things-and although most of it occurs in a VM, I am able to report specific feedback. Is it testers that the Arch-release team lacks to make the process a bit easier?
yes. testers and people who fix bugs and improve things. in both archiso and aif.
Another good question is what system does the Arch Linux team have in place to insure that Arch will boot on any machine?
we don't ensure anything. we handle reported problems in a "best effort" way.
Please keep up the great work on your ArchIso system Dieter, as it appears that you lead that effort. Thanks to you, your efforts in ArchIso, including Thomases efforts to fix things with it, have enabled us TalkingArch Users to role our own snapshots thanks to ArchIso-git, so please keep up the work on that!
I don't know much about archiso. I've been lucky to get great help from the community (mostly Gerardo) and sometimes a dev like Thomas, because no one else currently has time for it.
Though if users wished to build there own Iso images of Arch Dieter, couldn't they do so without needing to wait for you folks, and just pull in AIF, and other various packages? If Archiso does indeed take a snapshot of the repo as it is, perhaps it pulls in AIF, no matter what version that's at.
yes. you can make your own images with archiso. Dieter