[cut-team] Where do we go from here?

Asheesh Laroia asheesh at asheesh.org
Wed Oct 6 16:24:59 UTC 2010


On Wed, 6 Oct 2010, Michael Gilbert wrote:

> On Wed, 6 Oct 2010 10:47:39 +1000, Anthony Towns wrote:
>> On Thu, Sep 23, 2010 at 23:04, Raphael Hertzog <hertzog at debian.org> wrote:
>>> Are you ready to work on snapshots? If yes, do you have conditions?
>>
>> So I don't think I've seen anyone else actually say "yes" here. Are
>> testing snapshots DOA?
>>
>> I'm still interested, but not to the point of working through them on my own.
>
> After thinking about this some more, I am interested in testing
> snapshots. My plan to put together a demonstration using the
> squeeze alpha installer.  Basically, I'll just modify the apt sources
> so that it installs a snapshot.d.o snapshot from the day that the
> installer was released (Feb 21st 2010).
>
> That's rather straightforward and simple, so it can be done rather
> quickly (when I find the time). The hard part for this approach is
> setting up a mirror network for snapshot.d.o's squeeze snapshots. I'm
> not a DD, so I can't do any work on that, but its really needed if
> snapshots were to become popular.

If you need a high bandwidth place to drop a bunch of files, find me and 
we'll see if we can find a nice .edu that would be friendly. (Answer is, 
"Almost definitely yes.")

-- Asheesh.

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