Hello All, After reading a few requests for the project status on this list (e.g., http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/livecd/2010-March/005331.html, http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/livecd/2009-August/005314.html) and a couple of personal emails, I think I need to bring this subject up to determine what will happen to this project. It's important to discuss, because while we've produced something here that a number of people like and find useful, there are some pretty large reasons as to why this project became stagnant.
Here's some of the main ones: 1. Maintenance nightmare. The build scripts for the CD just take way too long, they're very procedural. And their current format makes them difficult to maintain. (Of course, this may be just the nature of a LiveCD based on LFS - this is difficult to say.) 2. The purpose of _this particular LiveCD and project_ has not been maintained very clearly. And so the produced CD and many of the decisions made about it have wandered. 3. Little real development support from others. Neither myself (nor Alexander who probably doesn't even associate himself with this project anymore) have the time or energy to keep this project moving by ourselves. If people want this CD, they're going to have to help produce it. It comes down to this. If you, the readers of this list and users of this CD, would like to produce future "official" versions of this CD, you are going to have to come together to decide two things. 1. What future direction should the CD take and why (i.e., Stated Purpose, build method, packages included, other features) 2. How are we going to organize to achieve the answers to question 1? If we can't answer those two things satisfactorily and put it into action, then I'm afraid the best thing would really be to shut down the project completely and officially. Regards, Jeremy Huntwork -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
