Meeting Minutes
The meeting took place on #debian-edu (irc.debian.org), on 2008-11-05 (Wednesday) from 19.00 UTC to 20:03 UTC. It completed in 1 hours and 03 minutes.
- Moderator: Vagrant Cascadian
- Log collector: meetbot/Holger Levsen
- Writing summary: Daniel Hess
The full log is at http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Meeting/20081105/log.
Participants
- pere = Petter Reinholdtsen
- h01ger = Holger Levsen
- vagrantc = Vagrant Cascadian
- danielsan = Daniel Hess
- klausade = Klaus Ade Johnstad
- itais = José L. Redrejo
Agenda
- Who moderates the meeting?
- Next (Lenny based) release
- Name and version number
- Current state of our Lenny
- bugs+features that need fixing before we can release
- usbstick image
- any other business
- Next meeting?
Summary
1. Who moderates the meeting?
- Skipped as Vagrant did volunteer to moderate the meeting before the meeting.
2. Next (Lenny based) release
2.1. 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.
2.2. 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].
2.3. 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.