Summary from irc meeting 16/10-2006 17:00 UTC
Meeting notes for the Debian Edu meeting taking place on #debian-edu
2006-01-19 17:00 UTC.
Formalities
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Moderator: Petter Reinholdtsen
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Log collector: Holger Levsen
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Writing the summary: Ronny Aasen
Agenda
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Status of Etch <http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Etch>
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useradmin problem and solution (webmin is removed...)
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#311188 <http://bugs.debian.org/311188>
Summary
The following people gave input to the meeting:
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pere: Petter Reinholdtsen, h01ger: Holger Levsen, sepski: Ronny Aasen
Meeting time and participation
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There was some initial confusion, since one time had been
published on the wiki and another on the irc topic. but the
meeting started 17:00 UTC. It was decided to keep the meeting even
with the low number of participants.
Status of etch
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There is a wikipage at
http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Etch, that we will try to
keep current with issues and problems for the etch install. This
is also a good resource to check before testing the installer.
Petter reported that the cd build should be stabalized, and in the
cases where it fails, it should do so in a detectable fashion, and
not create broken cd's. He have also enabeled the grafical
installer as default, this seams to break the installation of a
few packages. This needs to be tested and bugs
<http://bugs.skolelinux.no> written. It was decided to try to
autobuild the source cd's too. The content of these must be
verified match the binary cd's
There are 2 serious issues befoer we can release a test02, the
libnss-ldap issue, and the broken ltsp build. Ronny would try and
fix the ltsp issue after the meeting.
useradmin problem and solution
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current status is that we have no easy to use user admin tool.
webmin is gone from etch, so wlus have no framework to run on. The
alternatives currently in etch including GOSA and phpldapadmin are
not very userfriendly. the alternative with cipux is not packaged
in etch, and it's unclear how much work is needed in order to have
it packaged.
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Holger is working on helping cipux integrate in debian.
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Anders Kringstad Hanssen is checking out the alternatives in etch,
to see if we can configure them to become more userfriendly. A
decition on what to focus the enery on should be made soon
bug http://bugs.debian.org/311188
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In order to resolve the RC bug, we need to reduce the amount of
configuration needed. And then focus on solving the problems for
the remaining few packages. Work must also be done to purge
debien-edu-config for old woody and sarge configurations. Then the
remaining must be evaluated if it is needed, or not. If a pacakge
must be configured and can not be fixed, in time. We can also try
and look at using alternative packages that are preseedable and
included in etch
date and time for the next meeting
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The date for the next meeting was set at 2006-10-30 17:00 UTC.
Please update the http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Meeting
<http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Meeting> agenda and reserve the
time in your shedules.
Ronny Aasen
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