From owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Fri Feb 18 15:46:44 2011 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 355CD106564A; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:46:44 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from nwhitehorn@freebsd.org) Received: from adsum.doit.wisc.edu (adsum.doit.wisc.edu [144.92.197.210]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 070E18FC08; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:46:43 +0000 (UTC) MIME-version: 1.0 Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-type: text/plain; CHARSET=US-ASCII; format=flowed Received: from avs-daemon.smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) id <0LGT00H14L5VV200@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:46:43 -0600 (CST) Received: from comporellon.tachypleus.net (adsl-76-208-68-88.dsl.mdsnwi.sbcglobal.net [76.208.68.88]) by smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu (Sun Java(tm) System Messaging Server 7u2-7.05 32bit (built Jul 30 2009)) with ESMTPSA id <0LGT00FUEL5RRT00@smtpauth1.wiscmail.wisc.edu>; Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:46:40 -0600 (CST) Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 09:46:39 -0600 From: Nathan Whitehorn In-reply-to: <4D35CFFB.3010302@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org, freebsd-current@freebsd.org, freebsd-sysinstall@freebsd.org Message-id: <4D5E945F.60106@freebsd.org> X-Spam-Report: AuthenticatedSender=yes, SenderIP=76.208.68.88 X-Spam-PmxInfo: Server=avs-13, Version=5.6.0.2009776, Antispam-Engine: 2.7.2.376379, Antispam-Data: 2011.2.18.153620, SenderIP=76.208.68.88 References: <4D35CFFB.3010302@freebsd.org> User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; FreeBSD amd64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.13) Gecko/20101214 Thunderbird/3.1.7 Cc: Subject: Re: FreeBSD Installer Roadmap X-BeenThere: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussion related to FreeBSD architecture List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Fri, 18 Feb 2011 15:46:44 -0000 On 01/18/11 11:38, Nathan Whitehorn wrote: > This plan ensures that we have a minimum of three months of testing of > the new installer on snapshot media before the 9.0 release, which > should ensure a minimum of bugs. I would also like to point out that > there are no roads in this map that end up with us having sysinstall > as the default installer past the 18th of February. After 15 years of > sysinstall being "greatly in need of death", it will finally be time > to retire it. Today is the 18th of February. Josh Paetzel and I (mostly him) have done a significant amount of infrastructural work required to do the bsdinstall/pc-sysinstall merge, but it is not quite done yet, so I have imported bsdinstall into HEAD with its own backend. As per the original roadmap, we will now continue work on merging (first retaining the bsdinstall partition editor backend combined with the rest of pc-sysinstall) while simultaneously working on release integration and bug fixes for bsdinstall. Many thanks to everyone who provided test results and feedback. Recent test ISOs can be found at the BSDInstall wiki page at http://wiki.freebsd.org/BSDInstall for amd64, i386, powerpc, powerpc64, and sparc64. -Nathan