Launchpad: [https://launchpad.net/people/ubuntu-installer ubuntu-installer]

Goals and Responsibilities

• Maintain the Ubuntu installer at the quality of the last stable release or better.
• Keep the Ubuntu installer in sync with the Debian installer as much as we can, and feed back relevant changes.
• Develop new installer features, in cooperation with Debian and with the other groups using d-i.
• Support users who have problems installing Ubuntu.

Goals for Hoary

• Implement Kickstart compatibility using new debconf preseeding feature in d-i.
  • should be a relatively simple translation job
• Move from devfs and discover to udev and hotplug.
• Support any new architectures being added to Ubuntu (ia64 is a candidate).
• Support USB-stick installs; not everyone can manage with CD or netboot (and unfortunately the kernel doesn't fit on a floppy).
• Ask all questions before the first reboot.
• Fix bugs!

Goals for Breezy

• Develop a graphical front-end to d-i.
  • preferably build on the existing work that's been done on cdebconf-gtk
  • work out a way to hook custom UI widgets into debconf: glade, complete custom widgets or debconf callbacks or both
  • usability testing

  • cooperate with DesktopTeam, maybe HIGify?

• write PartitionProber d-i component, which will find partitions from computer's hard disk(s) (and maybe other non-hotplugabble storage), for example windows C (and other) disks, linux and *bsd partitions from other distributions, etc...

Bug List

https://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/buglist.cgi?keywords=installer&resolution=---

People

• ColinWatson

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