Alpha 1 - Manifest?

[Steve Langasek]

On Tue, Jun 05, 2012 at 11:20:42AM +0200, Oliver Grawert wrote:
> On Mon, 4 Jun 2012 16:13:43 -0700
> Steve Langasek <steve.langasek at canonical.com> wrote:
> > > I'd rather see us go to 800MB and give us some breathing room to
> > > experiment with this new form factor,  now that we've made the
> > > decision to not use CDs. 

> > One of the reasons for wanting to only grow the image gradually is
> > that software *will* expand to use all available space, and by only
> > giving ourselves a little bit at a time, we can make sure we're
> > continuing to be disciplined about the growth.  I don't think the
> > difference between 786 and 800 is a big deal either way... but I also
> > don't think "breathing room" should be the deciding factor :)

> given that there is 800MB CD media you can easily get i would suggest
> that we try to fit on this still (now dont ask me how many MiB these
> have)

These may be available, but they're non-standard and I don't believe they're
very common.  I don't think we should care about explicitly targeting this
media.

Anyway, since we're unlikely to completely fill an 800MB image, whichever
limit we pick will probably be fine for the lucky few who have these larger
CDs - for this one cycle only.

-- 
Steve Langasek                   Give me a lever long enough and a Free OS
Debian Developer                   to set it on, and I can move the world.
Ubuntu Developer                                    http://www.debian.org/
slangasek at ubuntu.com                                     vorlon at debian.org
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