[Mageia-dev] Final set of isos for Mageia 3

Tue Oct 2 23:13:09 CEST 2012

2012/10/2 Wolfgang Bornath <molch.b at googlemail.com>:
+>
+> As everybody can see from the afore mentioned discussion as well as by
+> the answers to this announcement it is not possible to cater to each
+> and everybody's needs & wishes.
+>
+[...]
+>
+> And at the end it wraps up everything resulting in a customized Mageia live cd.
+>
+> This way Mageia would only have to distribute even less ISOs than
+> currently planned (saving QA time) and everybody can roll his/her own
+> flavor, depending on the purpose (showing and hand-out at events, in
+> your environment, for special projects, etc.)
+>
+> I know that there is a way to do this already but I'm talking about a
+> userfriendly "interactive tool" for the not so experienced. Looking at
+> the work&time Mageia could save in future it may be a reasonable
+> suggestion.
+>
+
+I fail to see how it would be better from a QA point of view, since
+the purpose of this change is to decrease the number of ISOs that we
+have to test to ensure that Mageia works as intended... Should we make
+a blog post saying “Hey guys it took too much time to test all the
+LiveCDs and DVDs we used to ship previously, so now we don't provide
+any medium and you just have to make your own... of course we can't
+ensure the distribution will behave as intended because we didn't test
+it :)”?
+
+But I guess I may have misunderstood your point.
+Though if it is really about letting people create their own customs
+ISOs instead of using ours, I fail to see how it could be more
+user-friendly that having to download a 1 GB LiveDVD and to burn it or
+dump it on a USB key. I suppose most end-users would just freak out
+when they see that they have to do most of the job by themselves. At
+least I would.
+
+Regards,
+Rémi
+