Re: Website - Pending Content Tasks

["Jaap A. Haitsma" <jaap haitsma org>]

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 13:35, Paul Cutler <pcutler gnome org> wrote:
> Hi Lucas,
>
> On Sat, 2010-02-20 at 11:54 +0000, Lucas Rocha wrote:
>> Hi Jaap,
>>
>> 2010/2/20 Jaap A. Haitsma <jaap haitsma org>:
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Maybe I missed a part of a discussion somewhere but the page says "The
>> > GNOME live images contain the latest and greatest GNOME software"
>> > but we are offering images based on GNOME 2.26 which is almost a year
>> > old. So it's not really latest and greatest.
>> >
>> > Wouldn't it be better to offer latest live release of Ubuntu, Fedora
>> > etc. Maybe even the development releases of those distros such that
>> > people can really test the latest and greates
>>
>> Maybe we could ping the right people to get updated images with the
>> latest GNOME release. I agree we should just point to live releases of
>> major distros in case we don't manage to get our own updated images.
>>
>> Volunteering to take this task? :-)
>>
>> --lucasr
>
>
> Sorry, I should have mentioned it:  I pinged Ken VanDine mid-last week,
> and he is going to work with Zhang Sen next who is the new maintainer of
> the GNOME live images created on the rPath platform.  (I also copied
> Vincent Untz as a backup plan if we need to move to the SUSE Build
> Service instead).
>
> I'm hopeful we'll have 2.30 images available at release.
>

What's the reason we promote these images or foresight linux instead
of live CDs/images of Ubuntu, Fedora etc?

Jaap