A few historical bits about d-i development
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No idea where this will lead us, but on a quiet morning in July 2005,
I imagined it would be worth keeping track of D-I history, so I just
started this document to keep the information I've found.

Please throw in any interesting information you might have. We'll
think about organizing this stuff as soon as we have enough material.



Original announcement of the D-I project - June 20th 2000
 First mention found: http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/06/msg00279.html

 Interesting quote from it: Joey Hess said '..."debian-installer", or
 some actual cool name someone comes up with. I hate naming
 projects. :-)'. 

 It seems that the name was quite good after all...as we kept it up to now.

The "first" things
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 First "weekly" status report - November 1st 2000: 
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/11/msg00006.html

 First udeb uploads - December 12th 2000:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00336.html

 First D-I team meeting - December 9th 2000:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00276.html
     No meeting minutes found up to now..:-)

 First appearance of the graphical frontend - December 27th 2000:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00547.html

 First successful (cough) "installation report" - February 14th 2001:
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00503.html

 First mention of devfs (aaaargh) - February 21st 2001
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00747.html

 First "new" tasksel - May 9th 2001
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00162.html
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/05/msg00513.html

 First tzconfig using debconf - June 10th 2001
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/06/msg00490.html

 First Debian derived distribution wanting to use D-I - July 28th 2001
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/07/msg00717.html

 First message to debian-boot by Frans Pop - March 1st 2004
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/03/msg00045.html

 First political struggle around D-I - April 5th 2004
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/04/msg00438.html

 Second political struggle around D-I - Sep 23th 2004
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2004/09/msg01324.html

 First message to debian-boot by Attilio Fiandrotti and begin of
    the "g-i aka graphical installer" revival story - March 31st 2005
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/03/msg01184.html

 Base-config commits suicide - Dec 21st 2005
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/12/msg00917.html

 First daily builds with the graphical installer included - May 17th 2006
    http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2006/05/msg00659.html


Status reports
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First status report: 
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/11/msg00006.html

Following progress reports:
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00020.html (Dec 1st 2000)
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2000/12/msg00338.html (Dec 12th 2000)
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/02/msg00591.html (Feb 16th 2001)
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2001/07/msg00714.html (Jul 26th 2001)
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/07/msg00013.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/08/msg00004.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/10/msg00007.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/11/msg00011.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/02/msg00013.html
 http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2007/07/msg00431.html
 <to be continued>

Debian-installer releases:
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First alpha: December 8th 2002
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2002/12/msg00002.html

Sarge installer beta1: November 9th 2003
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2003/11/msg00003.html
  - i386 and PowerPC only

Sarge installer beta2: January 14th 2004
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/01/msg00006.html
  - install from USB storage
  - all errata from beta1 fixed

Sarge installer beta3: March 16th 2004
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/03/msg00013.html
  - new partitioner with menus (partman)
  - support wireless
  - 2.4.25 kernel, eearly SATA support
  - more arches: ia64, sparc, m68k, mips, alpha
  - boot logo
  - installation manual
  - Languages: 35

Sarge installer beta4: April 30th 2004
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/04/msg00025.html
  - New architectures: arm, hppa, mipsel
  - detection of other OS
  - experimental support for kernel 2.6
  - new boot logo
  - Languages: 38

Sarge installer Release Candidate 1: August 7th 2004
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/08/msg00004.html
  - All 11 arches supported
  - install 2.6 on i386 is OK
  - Languages: 40

Sarge installer Release Candidate 2: November 22th 2004
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2004/11/msg00010.html
  - Support LVM on software RAID
  - Fix RC1 errata
  - Languages: 40

Sarge installer Release Candidate 3: March 23th 2004
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-boot/2005/03/msg00764.html
  - Ready for shipping!

Sarge release: June 6th 2005
  http://www.debian.org/News/2005/20050606
  - Languages: 40

Etch installer beta1: November 12th 2005
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2005/11/msg00008.html
  - Install 2.6 by default
  - Rescue mode
  - Alpha release of the graphical installer
  - Improved locale/timezone/clock settings
  - Automatic laptop detection
  - Languages: 49

Etch installer beta2: March 15th 2006
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/03/msg00013.html
  - Die, base-config, die! One stage installation
  - Switch to udev
  - Installed system is UTF-8 by default
  - Languages: 51

Etch installer beta3: August 11th 2006
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/08/msg00009.html
  - Integration of graphical installer for i386 and powerpc
  - Encrypted partitions support
  - Languages: 60

Etch installer Release Candidate 1: November 13th, 2006
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2006/11/msg00003.html
  - Automated partitionins supports LVM+crypto
  - Support for preseeded software RAID on multiple disk setups
  - Languages: 61

Etch installer Release Candidate 2: March 19th, 2007
  http://www.debian.org/devel/debian-installer/News/2007/20070319
  - Support resize of NTFS partitions
  - Improved support for visually impaired users (high contrast)
  - Languages: 65

Etch release: April 8th, 2007
  http://www.us.debian.org/News/2007/20070408
  - Languages: 57 (some were disabled)

Lenny installer beta1: March 17th, 2008
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/03/msg00012.html
  - support fod CD/DVD is back
  - clock sync with NTP
  - volatile support
  - win32-loader integrated
  - SATA RAID support
  - Languages: 58

Lenny installer Release Candidate 1: November 12th, 2008
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2008/11/msg00002.html
  - support for Live CD
  - loading firmware from removable media
  - integration of hardware speech synthesis
  - Languages: 62

Lenny installer Release Candidate 2: January 31st, 2009
  http://lists.debian.org/debian-devel-announce/2009/01/msg00009.html
  - improved brltty (Braille devices)
  - improved falllback to English when translations are incomplete
  - Languages: 63

Lenny release: February 14th, 2009
  http://www.debian.org/News/2009/20090214
  - Languages: 63

