Some notes on the Squeeze version of Debian Edu
Just before Christmas, I finally found time to look into the Debian Edu
distribution again, and was sad to discover that the installation did
not work at all (hang), and when that hang was fixed there were heaps of
other blocking problems making the setup unfit for release.
Since then I have fixed heaps of problems, and with good help from the
rest of the developer team we now have a set of CD and DVD images that
are installable and limping along quite well. This has taken most of
the last two to three weeks, and I estimate it will take another two
weeks with rather extensive changes before the code and configuration
base is stable enough for us to start the final polishing. I do not
expect many radical changes, and will be around to test and fix any
issues detected during testing.
At the moment I do around 3-4 test installations a day, and I discover a
new set of bugs and misfeatures every time I install. Fixes are
committed as I find them, and it is based on this testing experience I
believe we need two weeks to work our way up from fixing the basic to
the more high level features.
The next test release, beta2, will be wrapped up this weekend, and I
hope a lot of you will gather around to test it and see if it work for
you. Single machine setups seem to work fairly well, so now we need to
see how multi machine setups work. :)
The next release after that is planned two weeks later, and for this
beta3 I hope the distribution is almost ready for release candidates and
a proper release. I suspect we would want two more beta or rc releases
after this to do the final polishing before we publish the Debian
Edu/squeeze version.
This bring us too close to the end of the security support for
Debian/Lenny, but that is a sad result of the lack of people involved
with the development of Debian Edu these days, and the fact that very
little development have been done the last year.
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Happy hacking
Petter Reinholdtsen
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