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Author: Alberto Zuin - Private
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To: devuan developers internal list
Subject: Re: [devuan-dev] moving towards the release candidate
IMHO, let's chose the faster option because now it's really important
for us to release a RC as soon as possible.

Bye,

A


On 23/11/16 14:45, Jaromil wrote:
>
> heya,
>
> I resend this after subscribing golinux and parazyd who were still
> missing from this list, which has been barely used in the past anyway
>
> quoting my mail from few minutes ago below, let me add that the test
> is actually succesful, with the last devuan-keyring fix by nextime
>
> https://git.devuan.org/devuan-packages/devuan-keyring/commit/ecd2bd775de0b927484d66bc6aa9b6e2b823db9d
>
> we can confirm that the the CD/DVD install now works offline.
>
> looking forward on more constructive comments to move us towards the
> next release, which will likely be a release candidate.
>
> best
>
>
> On Wed, 23 Nov 2016, Jaromil wrote:
>
>>
>> dear devs,
>>
>> With our team in Amsterdam we are well determined to push towards a
>> release candidate. in the past day we are getting over the (rather
>> urgent) issue of the keysigning and we are now testing if the new
>> devuan-keyring build fixes also the CD/DVD problem in Beta, that the
>> installer doesn't uses the packages included in the ISO.
>>
>> having a look at other current pending issues and after a wisely long
>> beta period, there are only two blockers which I consider major for a
>> stable Devuan 1.0 release:
>>
>> - this keyring problem also affecting CD/DVD
>>
>> - the desktop-base which somehow never ends up landing the desktop
>>    designed by golinux and hellekin

>>
>> there are some other minor issues, lots of stability perceived by
>> everyone and most importantly no other issue that is significant and
>> impacts our original mission of delivering Jessie without systemd and
>> *just that*.
>>
>> therefore I ask you now to focus on this goal for Jessie and tell me
>> if I am missing something.
>>
>> Regarding the desktop-base, I understand that we are hanging on that
>> because the whole package is being refactored and in doing that is
>> left a bit in the air without being finished. I think that rewriting
>> desktop-base goes beyond the original mission of Jessie of removing
>> systemd and should be postponed to ASCII, while we should ship the
>> original desktop-base from Debian just substituting the graphics with
>> Devuan. What do you think?
>>
>> Thanks for any constructive feedback and assistance in preparing this
>> release.
>>
>> thanks,
>> best wishes
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
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