Lets not also forget something thats been thought about for a while and that
is a persistent Home directory.
tim
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> Datum: Mon, 07 Feb 2011 21:15:27 +0100
> Von: anonym <anonym@???>
> An: "The T(A)ILS public development discussion list" <tails-dev@???>
> Betreff: Re: [T(A)ILS-dev] Freeze ->0.7?
> 07/02/11 18:53, intrigeri:
> > Hi,
> >
> > Now that all serious Squeeze-related regressions I know of have been
> > fixed in our devel branch, I'd like to start stabilizing a 0.7 release
> > based on Debian Squeeze.
> >
> > The main issue I have with this process is that work has been started
> > not very long ago on two pretty interesting features (wipe memory on
> > media removal, minimal bridges support); big parts of this work are
> > done, but it seems these features still need some more care before we
> > can dare announcing and supporting any of those. I would be delighted
> > if these features could make it into 0.7, but I would prefer not to
> > treat it as release blockers. Also, it seems to me both are somehow
> > optional, i.e. users who don't actively do anything to use one of
> > these will not suffer from it being not perfect
> >
> > => I think we should release 0.7 with these features in half-done
> > state in case their implementation / documentation lags behind the
> > rest of the stabilization and testing work.
> >
> > I therefore propose merging the current devel branch into the testing
> > branch and partially freeze the testing branch; changes that may enter
> > testing during the freeze period would be:
> >
> > A. fixes for grave bugs
> > B. fixes for not-so-grave bugs when we are sure the fixes won't break
> > anything else
> > C. non-invasive enhancements of the two features I was talking of,
> > i.e. they must not touch areas that can break other stuff
> >
> > I propose this merging + freeze to happen at the end of the current
> > week in order to leave a bit more time to work on the two
> > aforementioned features.
>
> This sounds like a pretty good approach to me. I'm in favour.
>
> > Depending on the state of these features at the time of the release,
> > we might or might not mention it in the announcement, or announce it
> > as experimental and unsupported, or whatever we feel like is
> > appropriate.
>
> I'd say we don't mention anything about them before we're positive they
> work properly (I don't think we want to risk getting a reputation of
> shipping half-baked solutions). We'll see if time allows for that to
> happen before the 0.7 release.
>
> Cheers!
>
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