Tuesday, September 6, 2016

Re: Making space for the new Live USB Creator

On Mon, Sep 05, 2016 at 10:40:29AM +0200, Jiri Eischmann wrote:
> Paul W. Frields píše v Pá 02. 09. 2016 v 18:17 -0400:
> > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 11:07:33PM +0200, Robert Mayr wrote:
> > >
> > > 2016-09-02 21:23 GMT+02:00 Matthew Miller <mattdm@fedoraproject.org
> > > >:
> > >
> > > >
> > > > On Fri, Sep 02, 2016 at 02:09:03PM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > > > >
> > > > > So there is work being done in rel-eng to have builds for a
> > > > > cross-platform Live USB Creator.
> > > > > The Change for Fedora 25 is here:
> > > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Changes/FedoraMediaWriterAsPrima
> > > > > ryDown
> > > > loadable
> > > >
> > > > What is the *current* place to get it? That page doesn't say, and
> > > >
> > > > https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/How_to_create_and_use_
> > > > Live_USB#Using_Fedora_Media_Writer_.28Windows_and_Fedora.
> > > > 2C_graphical.2C_destructive.29
> > > >
> > > > links to https://github.com/lmacken/liveusb-creator/, which
> > > > doesn't use
> > > > "Fedora Media Writer" anywhere, and so does not seem to be right.
> > >
> > > WHat Matthew says is one of my concerns too, there is no
> > > documentation we
> > > can take to the website. As I didn't and don't follow this at all,
> > > we need
> > > someone to provide text for this change. We need to tell people how
> > > they
> > > have to use it and what they get exaclty. Otherwise people won't
> > > use it and
> > > will go directly to the old known ISO files, which we will keep on
> > > the
> > > website too.
> >
> > I agree the wiki needs changing too.  We can compile a list of pages
> > as part of the overall fixing that needs to happen.
> >
> > I don't think we need text first -- I'm happy to write it, for
> > instance, but I would rather do that directly using our templates and
> > git.  I don't want to send people to the wiki for anything where not
> > necessary.  (I do agree we should fix the wiki... I'd just like to
> > avoid redirecting more people there.)
> >
> > >
> > > Other issues we should discuss in a short meeting. Paul, is there a
> > > dodle
> > > somewhere? Or any proposals which are fine for all of us? I know
> > > it's
> > > always a mess bringing people from different timezones together,
> > > but we
> > > should not be so many, or?
> > > Thanks for bringing this up here.
> > >
> > > PS: it's optimistic to have it ready for Beta, IMHO, but never say
> > > never....
> >
> > I made a whenisgood:  http://whenisgood.net/fedora-luc-websites
> >
> > I think we probably only need Robert, Mo, and myself there, but I'll
> > also invite Jiří Eischmann who owns the Change and Ricky Elrod in
> > case
> > they can attend.
>
> Hi Paul,
> all proposed dates and times are difficult for me because we're hosting
> LibreOffice Conference in Brno this week and I'm the main organizer...
> But if there needs to be someone present from our side, I can send
> Martin Bříza to the meeting. He's on PTO from Wed, so the only possible
> date for him is tomorrow.

It's not vital we have a developer there, Jiří -- I think the problems
we're solving are all in the web content side. But Martin is welcome.

We're going to do this tomorrow at 11:00am EDT/1500 UTC/17:00 CEST.


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