Roadmap

We have released something useful in Tails 0.11, based on the work we've already done on the basis of Fedora liveusb-creator.

Next steps are:

Bugfixes and minor improvements of liveusb-creator

Remove devices from the list when unplugged.
Set cursor to waiting (hourglass) state while working.
Allow setting the system/overlay partitions size via command-line option(s).
command-line option --local-hard-disks that would enable installation on local hard disks (= not external USB); is half-implemented by --force, see special casing in the detect_removable_devices method.
Should be more explicit when no target device is available: currently displays an empty list, no message, is not that easy to understand.

See the dedicated page about ?incremental upgrades.

Implement our specifications in (probably) Ubuntu's usb-creator, that has a much saner codebase.

This should also open the possibility to take care of, at least, verified downloads and Windows support.

notes about GPT
the code: our work on liveusb-creator is in a dedicated Git repository. Integration work is made in the feature/usb_installer branch in the main Tails Git repository.
USB installation specification and design
archived ?roundup of existing tools