Project Hosting request: LiveBackup_XO-LiveCD

[Mike C. Fletcher]

Bernardo Innocenti wrote:
> Mike C. Fletcher wrote:
>   
...
>> This LiveCD should be very helpful going forward and seems likely to be
>> easily maintained.  Having it available on the OLPC servers would be a
>> good thing and I'm strongly for having the project created (I suggested
>> applying for the project in order to have that happen).
>>     
>
> We *used* to have a livecd flavor being built by pilgrim a few
> months ago, but eventually it bitrot and nobody cared enough
> to restore it.
>
> Maybe you could just see what's broken and send us a pilgrim patch
> to fix it.  I just wrote some documentation that may be useful
> to you:
>
>   http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Building_custom_images
>   
The Pilgrim approach is fine for those who are using Fedora systems and
want to maintain a Pilgrim build system... without someone willing to
put in the time and effort to maintain the solution, the next time the
approach breaks we will again lose the LiveCD build until someone gets
out from under their todo list long enough to work on it.

Wolfgang and Kurt are planning on actually having *users* of their
LiveCDs, schools using them to convert their computer labs into Sugar
environments, and as such have an incentive to work and maintain their
approach.  Because they are using official images as their starting
point it should be pretty easy to maintain (just download the latest
stable version and wrap it).

I'd be happy to see a second, Pilgrim-based LiveCD with a maintainer, as
it might be useful to build developer-focussed systems and the like; but
I still want to see the LiveBackup version (with its maintainers) get a
place to distribute and develop their approach.

Take care,
Mike

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