[arch-releng] RC1 ISOs and final release

[Grigorios Bouzakis]

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 06:42:48PM +0200, Grigorios Bouzakis wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:19:29AM -0600, Aaron Griffin wrote:
> > On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 10:11 AM, Gerhard Brauer <gerbra at archlinux.de> wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > i have a proposition on the current RC1 and the final release phase:
> > >
> > > If the current state of the documentation is the real problem not to
> > > release the ISO - hell, let's remove ALL documentation from THIS
> > > release. We have not an official ISO release since 2008.06 and now
> > > someone found a "yaourt" in the docu!
> > >
> > > IMHO: the RC1 is in release state from technical state. Let's build the
> > > final without docu (i guess not many people will ever need them really)
> > > and fix the last minor things (typo in /etc/issue, etc.).
> > >
> > >        *** And release it.  **
> > >
> > > If we switch to aif next release the docu must rewritten again.
> > 
> > Good point, and I agree 100%. I will make sure we add a note to the
> > release notes that documentation has been removed because it is
> > severely outdated. I will point them to the wiki page, updated with
> > dolby's changes, and suggest saving or printing or something if they
> > need offline docs - does this sound good?
> > 
> > Though, if I grabbed dolby's changes right now, and removed the
> > beginners guide, will that put us in a better state?
> 
> With or without docs, i dont know whats best. But since the version of
> the guide im working on is mostly the same but shorter at this point,
> if its decided to include docs, just include the ones available in the
> installer.git now, with a note that its outdated.
> 
Or what Aaron  said . The new guide is updated in some parts. Maybe it
would be better to include that one. I dont really know. Just if you do
make sure to get it from the git repo i posted in BR #13140.

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Greg

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