Long time, no post
I’ve promised two things that I have not made good on.
- I said I’d post much more often, which I’ve been neglecting to do.
- I said I’d have the first release ready Real Soon Now.
The second part has been holding the first part back as I was hoping to save the next blog post for the release notes, but alas the release is not quite ready. Don’t get me wrong, it’s mostly there. One can boot a d-i iso, select some items to import and they magically appear once the install has completed. This after many, many builds of the installer and many tiny (stupid) bug fixes. The reason there’s no release yet is the some items part. I really wanted to have the importing of My Documents, My Pictures, My Music, the wallpaper, user image, proxy settings, and so on working for the first release as I figure that most people expect the Windows items to work before regular applications do. I thought these were low hanging fruit. Some are, but some require saving gconf keys, which I’ve only recently started working on. Again, I say “Real Soon Now” for about the fifth time, but the project is progressing, regardless of offical releases, and I hope to have the Ubiquity front-end also done soon, so the first release could be a big one.
As always, if you’re anxious you can check out the code from bzr (though as always there’s code in my local branch that I haven’t checked in yet).