Hey all, Last Sunday there was a meeting of all the parties involved with the Skolelinux-RLP project. The main topics discussed were the current status of Skolelinux-RLP and how to move on from now, with the importance of sustainability in mind when the project ends (from the governmental side) in February 2011. A rather drastic change of course was decided, which hopefully will help the RLP project as well as the international Debian Edu project. These are the most important things that have been decided: 1) Installation ---------------- From now on, Skolelinux 5 will be the base for all new installations, using the DVD for the main-server, and optionally PXE for the other installations. No more pre-/self-built images :) 2) Features + Documentation ---------------------------- All features that were/are being developed for the specific requirements of RLP shall be documented soon in the wiki. Until now, they were built-in with the images and hard to use/implement by other parties. In the future it shall be easier for everybody to use these features, if required. Specially developed software shall be offered as packages for Skolelinux 5. The RLP specific documentation shall be put into a package, similar to debian-edu-doc. These packages will be made available on http://rp.skolelinux.de/packages/. Naturally, the amount of packages shall be kept to a minimum, to stay as close to Skolelinux as possible. What can go into Debian shall go there. An AddOn-CD shall be created, containing the material to add the RLP flavour to Skolelinux 5. 3) Discussions --------------- Furthermore, all future discussions shall take place on the known public mailinglists (as opposed to the private mailinglists before). So expect some more traffic on debian-edu@lists.debian.org in the future, as well as on user@skolelinux.de and cipux-devel@cipux.org. 4) Bugtracking --------------- Bugtracking shall be improved. Bugs are reported directly to the BTS / the bugzilla if their root is in Debian / Skolelinux. Wishlist bugs and problems with the RLP specific features shall continue to be tracked on http://rp.skolelinux.de/trac/ Bottom line ------------- The overall goal is to make the project more sustainable. For this it is important not to be a "fork of a fork", but rather be a flavour of the "real" Skolelinux, which itself is trying to become a Debian Pure Blend for the same reason. The RLP project is still rather young and might lack some experience about how to accomplish this. Any guidance, help and assistance for self-help is welcome. This is a great chance to give a new push of life and manpower to Debian Edu, let's work together and use this chance! ---- A personal note on #2): On Tuesday I started cleaning and reorganizing http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu and its subpages. I wanted to set up a clear structure, to make it more easily accessible for users and hence be able to convince the RLP project to put all technical documentation there. I will now add an area for "Flavours" of Skolelinux, like Skolelinux-RLP (Skolelinux 5 with the features required in RLP). Those features which are not specific for RLP, but ones that other people could use as well I would like to see in the general HowTo section, and then linked from the RLP flavour. Hopefully this plan will be appreciated and put to use. Best wishes to everyone, -- .''`. Philipp Huebner <debalance@debian.org> : :' : pgp fp: 6719 25C5 B8CD E74A 5225 3DF9 E5CA 8C49 25E4 205F `. `'` HP: http://www.debalance.de, Skype: philipp-huebner `- ICQ: 235-524-440, Jabber: der_schakal@jabber.org
Attachment:
signature.asc
Description: OpenPGP digital signature