[arch-general] arch release schedule

[Aaron Griffin]

On Thu, Dec 11, 2008 at 2:27 AM, Fredrik Eriksson
<fredrik.eriksson at gigabit.nu> wrote:
>> Dieter Plaetinck schrieb:
>>> Hi all,
>>> Any estimation when the next arch release will be?  Or will it be
>>> announced on this mailing list a few days before? that would be good
>>> enough too.
>>>
>>> The reason I'm asking is AIF has again undergone many changes.  I could
>>> start working now on a usable, reasonably stable alpha release without
>>> lvm/dm_crypt support,
>>> or if there's more time I can try to stabilize those features as well.
>>>
>>> Like Aaron said, it would be nice to have aif as an alternative,
>>> experimental installer on the installcd, I would like to synchronize my
>>> schedule a bit with the next release.
>>
>> phrakture wanted to do some work on the ISO scripts, I guess we release
>> after that. The problem with AIF is that we need to get people to
>> actually test it before we release!
>>
>> If we offer it as an alternative to the old installer and say it's
>> experimental, it'd be no problem, but we probably won't get many testers.
>>
>>
>
> Would be nice anyway to get it on the installer ISO. IMHO there will be
> even less testers if they'd have to muck about just to get ahold of it.
> Adding it as an alternative atleast gives you some sort of testing (even
> thou most probably won't report bugs or "features").

Right, that's what I was thinking - put it on there anyway because
it's just about the only way to get people to test it. I doubt people
will make vmware images just to test another installer.