Beginning of the meeting: 19:00 UTC (20:00 CET) 2008-11-05
Attendees: Petter Reinholdtsen, Holger Levsen, Vagrant Cascadian,
Daniel Hess, Klaus Ade Johnstad, José L. Redrejo
Moderator: Vagrant Cascadian
Summary writer: Daniel Hess
Full log: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Meeting/20081105/log
1. Who moderates the meeting?
Skipped as Vagrant did volunteer to moderate the meeting before the
meeting.
2. Next (Lenny based) release
1. Name and version number
Holger did start two pools ([1] and [2]) on a web polling
platform some weeks ago. Not only did quite some developers and
contributers of Debian Edu/Skolelinux participate, there where
also some comments.
After a longer discussion about the different possible version
numbers, the variant Vagrant proposed on the page of poll 1 ([1])
was chosen. This means, that our first release, based on Debian
Lenny r0, will have the version number 5.0r0+edu0. If we need to
do a “point release” before Lenny r1 point release, it would be
5.0r0+edu1. If otherwise it is based on Lenny r1 point release it
would be 5.0r1+edu1 and so on.
The second point in the discussion was the codename to be used. Of
our three past major releases (based on Debian Woody, Sarge and
Etch) two had a codename (only Sarge has not had one). The
majority of the second poll ([2]) stated, that they would prefer
to not have a extra codename for Debian Edu. In the comments of
the poll it was even explained, that the use of a second codename
could be very confusing. As nobody came up with a good reason to
keep our second Debian Edu specific codename, it was decided not
use a extra codename.
2. Current state of our Lenny
Our Lenny based version does not look as releasable as Lenny.
There are still some things left to be done, before we could
release. This will most probably mean, that we will not release
our first release of the Lenny based Debian Edu version together
with Debian Lenny. This reflects the result of the third poll
([3]) Holger did start. There most participants voted in favor for
“release r0 when its ready”.
The current status of the release is tracked in the wiki under
[4].
3. bugs+features that need fixing before we can release
There are still some problems that need to be fixed before the
release. Currently most known problems are named on the Lenny
status page in the wiki ([4]). This problems need to be
transfered into the bugs.skolelinux.org. Everyone should take a
look at the wikipage and see if the information there is correct
or if something is missing. It would also be nice, if the one with
special knowledge about one bug could add them to
bugs.skolelinux.org including more information.
Some of the problems/needed features named at the irc meeting are:
- Partition size created by the installer are too small. The
partitions are automatically resized when they get too small,
but this costs an extra fsck during fistboot.
- The questions of the “edu-expert” installer profile are messed
up in text mode.
- The LDAP integration is not finished. For example the dhcpd
accesses the information in the LDAP directory, but we are
lacking a tool to add the data. Also the nameservice (bind for
now) does not use the LDAP data currently.
- The sugar profile is not up to our standards. Holger reports
that we should either drop it, or include Jonas backports in our
archive.
- Neither italc nor controlaula work out of the box.
- The OCS Inventory server is not configured automatically.
- PXE installs need to be fixed.
- Installing mainserver on a laptop can cause problems because of
network-manager.
- Rewrite the squid config to not include static IPs.
- SSL certificate check in Iceweasel.
As discussing this problems (bugs and needed features) without
bug numbers and classification is not possible on an irc meeting,
it was suggested, that this information should be put into the bug
tracking system. Then the problems should be discussed at the next
meeting and classified accordingly.
3. usbstick image
Skipped
4. any other business
Skipped
5. Next meeting?
The next meeting is on Wednesday, the 19th November 19:00 UTC (20:00
CET) at #debian-edu on irc.debian.org.
End of the meeting: 20:03 UTC (21:03 CET)
Links:
[1] http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=ycn7rw4rtiasbmy6
[2] http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=cvt5bi5qz5x2iu7a
[3] http://doodle.com/participation.html?pollId=bcb76h6f2cep9hud
[4] http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Status/Lenny
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