Re: CDs DVDs or netboot. Oh my!

[Chuck Anderson <cra WPI EDU>]

On Sat, Oct 20, 2007 at 02:50:39PM -0600, Jonathan Steffan wrote:
> Does anyone have the *technical* reason we are not doing CDs? Is this
> because we don't want to have mirrors hosting the additional data? I can
> assume the Live images have taken the space we have dedicated for CD
> ISOs in the past, is this the case? Is it the testing load.. or is it we
> don't want to have to maintain pkgorder in anaconda anymore? ;-)
>
... a whole lot about Jigdo and PyJigdo ...
>
> These are our stats for CD images for our Re-Spin:
> 
> Re-Spin Jigdo CD, Mirror Member 1: 261
> Re-Spin Jigdo CD, Mirror Member 2: 204
> GOLD CD Torrent (last 4 weeks): 760
> 
> These numbers are not "wow, we need to do CD images" but they would be
> exponentially increased if they were for "official images" promoted by
> the Fedora Project.

+1

I agree.  We should do CD images for Fedora 8.  Either by the regular 
ISO distribution, or via Jigdo.  Perhaps regular ISO for now, and work 
on Jigdo for Fedora 9.