[indiana-discuss] Test image for Preview 2

[Dave Miner]

David J. Orman wrote:
...
> All of this said, when should I hope to be able to use wireless on
> wpa protected networks? Will it be functional in the "release" of
> OSOL/Indiana in March? The reason I ask (aside from the obvious
> desire of mine) is simply due to what I feel would be a big letdown
> for potential users who have picked up on the buzz. I've already
> talked a few buddies into checking out Indiana, but they all came
> back to me a day or two later to tell me they couldn't get wireless
> working, so they threw in the towel.
> 

The most direct answer I can give to your question here is literally, "I 
don't know".  That's not meant to be evasive.  The thing to understand 
is that the expected Indiana release model is time-driven, rather than 
feature-driven, and for the most part it will therefore be a snapshot at 
a particular point in time of features coming from the communities 
contributing to it.  With both preview 1 and the forthcoming preview 2 
we've spent a certain amount of time attempting to stabilize the release 
so that it's more cohesive than just a bag of bits, but the general rule 
is that if you pick a release date as your high-order bit, then the 
feature set will be malleable.  In the case of the wireless and WPA 
functionality, the sooner it gets straightened out by the teams that own 
it, the more likely it is to be in Indiana's next release.  I sincerely 
doubt we'd move the release schedule to accommodate them.  It's not 
quite such a big deal to make a given release when you can do more 
granular updates in between with IPS, anyway.

Hopefully your buddies who threw in the towel on preview 1 will try 
again in the future.  It'd be a shame to judge Indiana by that preview 
(or preview 2, for that matter ;-), as we're a lot closer to the 
beginning than the end.

Dave