[Fedora-livecd-list] RFC- proposal for livecd filesystem layout changes

[Jeremy Katz]

On Thu, 2007-09-20 at 18:43 -0500, Douglas McClendon wrote:
> Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> > Douglas McClendon wrote: 
> >> How about we split livecd-iso-to-disk into its own package, 
> >> specifically because of the use-case scenario of a user just wanting 
> >> to put their newly downloaded f8-livecd on usb, without any need or 
> >> interest in full-blown livecd-creation?
> >>
> >> And install it by default, perhaps even in the minimal base spin config?
> > 
> > This sounds like a good idea especially if we provide a menu option to 
> > make this feature more visible to users and reviewers who don't read the 
> > release notes which is unfortunately quite a lot.
> 
> I could throw together a ghetto zenity gui pretty quickly.  The only 
> user interaction is
[snip]
> I'm curious, what kind of deadlines should I be thinking about for this 
> and other livecd related things.

Technically speaking, features should mostly be done prior to the
feature freeze (test2).  How much of a feature this is could be
arguable, though.

> I.e. the f8 devel freeze is Oct 4th, as of f8t3 release.  But then there 
> is an f8t3 devel freeze as of Sept 25th (along with translation freeze).
> 
> What sort of development is considered acceptable between those two dates?

Bugfixes only.  The big difference is the severity of bugs fixed changes
as of Oct 4th.

> Obviously I would like to get anything in by say... tonight, so that 
> Jeremy has time to decide to accept it and commit it  before tuesday, 
> and then not try to get anything in after that.
> 
> And would this theoretical gui livecd-iso-to-disk separate package fall 
> outside the scope of even the oct-4th devel freeze, because it is a 
> 'new' package?

If we don't install it by default, then it would be reasonable to put
in.  So given that livecd-tools isn't installed by default anywhere, in
that respect, we could just put it in.  But Rahul I think wants it
installed by default.

That said, in any case, I'm willing to put it on a branch for now

Jeremy