[indiana-discuss] [caiman-discuss] My experience with Indiana

[Shawn Walker]

On 05/11/2007, Dave Miner <Dave.Miner at sun.com> wrote:
> MC wrote:
> >> One thing that needs to be discussed is how frequently to refresh
> >> the base ISO
> >
> > Refresh the developer preview as much as you can until an installed
> > developer preview is able to refresh itself with IPS.  Once a month
> > or more would not be unreasonable.  There is more than one project
> > out there that does "nightly" builds :)
>
> Most projects do nightly builds, but right now producing ISO's is a
> non-zero cost in development overhead, so finding a balance vs. getting
> features implemented and bugs fixed is an issue.
>
> The systems installed from the initial ISO are intended to be able to
> update themselves already.

Maybe a good community project would be to help automate that ISO
building process then.

I know that several other communities have such a mechanism in place.

-- 
Shawn Walker, Software and Systems Analyst
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