I'm supposed to do monthly reports as well as weekly ones, and I find to my suprise that a month has rolled by since I began to work on skolelinux, so here goes. This was my first month with the project, so it involved a certian amount of learning about things and familiarisaton with the code, infrastructure, and people. To an extent this is still ongoing, but I have most of the information that I need to do my work now. Thanks to everyone who answered my questions, set up my accounts, etc. I've been splitting most of my time between leading the debian-installer project, which is key to the release of sarge and debian-edu on sarge; and working on various parts of debian-edu needed to make it work with sarge. On the d-i front, we have made one beta release in the past month, which works pretty well, and are close to ready with our first release candidate. It seems likely that after that point, debian-installer will stop being a blocking issue for sarge release; we will have a well-working installer and sarge will either release or be delayed by the other usual issues such as release critical bugs, politics (sigh), etc. d-i occupied most of my working time during the beginning of the month, and I've been making changes that let me scale back on the time I need to spend on d-i, and hope this will scale back further ones it's basically ready for release. On the debian-edu in sarge front, I've gotten the debian-edu sarge CDs from something that didn't install a debian-edu system, to something that now would (sort of), if the whole system could only fit on a single CD anymore. This took quite a lot of work on base-config, debian-edu-install, debian-edu tasks, debian-cd, and other things. It involved much waiting for slow CD builds and downloads, which was mostly filled with d-i work. I had hoped to have a CD that installed the packages in debian-edu by the end of the first month's work, as an intermediate point to the goal of having a mostly working debian-edu sarge CD ready within two months. Of course I hope not to need to do everything on my own once I have a minally working CD that others, who have more experience with how debian-edu should look and work, can try. At the moment I am behind on this goal, and I will need to devote a larger fraction of time to it to still make it. I hope to have a local mirror and a fast build machine at home soon (within the next 2 weeks), and that should speed up the CD test process a lot for me. Besides getting the CD ready, my other main goal for next month is to work on testing security isses. So far the plans are too vague to write more about that. I'd really appreciate any feedback that anyone in the debian-edu/skolelinux project has about the work I'm doing and how I'm doing it. It's been a pleasure to work with you this past month. -- see shy jo
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