FreeBSD Installer Roadmap

[Nathan Whitehorn]

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