summary from the irc meeting 2007-08-23
Summary
Attendees:
danielsan = Daniel Hess
sepski = Ronny Aasen
Andreas = Andreas Tille
pere = Petter Reinholdtsen
winnie = Patrick Winnertz
jever = Jürgen Leibner
1. Who can write the summary?
20 minutes after the begin of the meeting I joined it and so the
summary writer was found ;-)
In the meantime it was explained by sepski, why a summary is so
important: '... the log is allways put on the wiki. but the summaries
are posted on the mailinglists in addition to the wikies. and of course
the summaries only contains the meat of the meeting and not all the
discussion.' So the summary is very important to let those not present
know what was discussed here.
2. Status of press coverage
Pere suggested that we should try to merge the different lists of press
coverage into one list, and join forces to keep that list updated.
The Lists can be found here: http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Presse which
links to the other lists too. If someone can merge and redirect
http://wiki.skolelinux.de/Presse/Texte into
http://wiki.skolelinux.no/Presse it would be great and perhaps
translate it to english.
3. Preparing for release 3.0r1
3.1 rough schedule for rc1
There is a roadmap here: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/roadmap
It consists of the points made by pere some time ago in an e-mail to
debian-edu@l.d.o
danielsan remarks that it would be nice, if people could add their
points and claim points they are working on.
pere asked, if anyone is interested in collecting windows installers of
free software for the live DVD images like openoffice.org, GIMP and so
on. danielsan thinks that we should create a subpage and list software
with direct links to the downloads there. If enough gets in, it may be
worth including it.
jever asked if one can have something like a portal server as an
install profile. winnie and sepski said that the barebone install
profile is the right place for such services.
pere wants to make a new release (r1) at the and of this month. So the
the roadmap has to be checked, the bugzilla for verifying new bugs and
fixing of verified bugs has to be done. While finnarne has made it
clear that he very rarely look at the bugzilla bugs, so we should not
wait for that to happen. So winnie looked over the bugzilla bugs of
lwat and he thinks some of them are closed now.
danielsan would like to see lwat with updated german translation and
offers to add it if.
Overall it is docu missing as winnie remarks.
4. version number and code name for the next release
r1 have no new name and lenny is to far ahead to bother with it now.
So we should move this to a meeting after r1 and put it on hold until
we start working on lenny stuff.
5. developing a development strategy for lenny
danielsan said that last meeting it was sugested to handle this point
at the meeting in Extremadura.
pere would like us to start building lenny images as soon as r1 is out,
from our own repository.
This will give us working images while we spend time to reduce the
amount of packages in our repository.
h01ger want us to not build from our own repository, in the belief that
it will make us more focused on fixing stuff in lenny.
sepski said that this is a good plan for integration into debian, but
it makes it harder for non DD's to test their stuff since they need a
sponsored upload first. The further discussion will be made in
extremadura.
5.1 cd builds
sepski thinks that he can spend some time on it.
5.2 #311188 debian-edu-config: Messes "programmatically" with
conffiles of other packages
- This point was skipped -
5.3 how to make solutions for #311188 a [WWW] release goal
- This point was skipped -
5.4 starting a wiki page with our release goals for lenny
- This point was skipped -
5.5 edu point releases in lenny (h01ger has a plan for that)
- This point was skipped -
5.6 what else?
Nothing else
6. Extremadura 2007
There is a wikipage url where people can sign up/mark the dates that
fits the best: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Extremadura2007
winnie collects info from everyone about when they _can't_ join, and
then try to find such holes.
7. Common CDD tools (AndreasTille)
andreas is working on converting debian-edu to use the common CDD
tools, trying to converge the different CDDs to use a common set of
tools.
pere believes this is a good idea. Andreas' strategy so far is to take
the debian-edu tools, remove the debian-edu specific hardcoded stuff
and make it more configurable. Next convert our packages to use the new
tools. The positive effect is that we can get help from other cdds to
maintain and improve the tools. The negative effect is that it become
slightly harder to modify the tools (have to send then through the
cdd-tools maintainer). Luckily, we can all become part of the cdd
project and do the work directly there, so it is not a big problem.
7.1 Separating Debian-Edu specific data from general code
(partly done)
7.2 Usage of SVN (trunk?)
pere believes it is ok to work on trunk, but only if we are careful.
7.3 Finally Build-Depend from (to be released) cdd-dev and Depend from
cdd-common
- This point was skipped -
7.4. Naming scheme (*-tasks, *-common, *-config)
- This point was skipped -
8. Next meeting?
The next meeting is planned on #debian-edu (irc.debian.org),
2007-08-31 18:00 UTC (20:00 CET).
It will (hopefully) complete in 1 hour.
(danielsan would like to see other people here, was a bit low the last
few meetings)
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