Fwd: update on ARB exception for /opt installation

[Allison Randal]

Judging from timezones listed for ARB members on Launchpad (let me know 
if you're in a different timezone) looks like our best meeting time is:

- 8am Pacific/Auckland
- 11am US/Pacific
- 2pm US/Eastern and Canada/Montreal
- 7pm EU/Dublin
- 8pm EU/Berlin

We could probably shift an hour earlier or later, but don't want to get 
much earlier for Australia/New Zealand or much later for Europe.

Would this work on next Tuesday (Dec 7th) for you all? That's Wednesday 
Dec 8th for Australia/New Zealand.

Allison

On 11/30/2010 01:27 PM, Andrew Mitchell wrote:
> Thanks for following this up with the TB. I should be available as
> needed, though would rather not have a 4AM meeting :)
> I'm not sure what would suit everyone, but as I tend to be the outlier
> in terms of timezones, I should be able to make it fit.
>
> Thanks,
> Andrew
>
>
> On Tue, 2010-11-30 at 11:35 -0500, Allison Randal wrote:
>> This unblocks us, so we can move forward with the applications currently
>> in the queue.
>>
>> Could we schedule an IRC meeting later this week or early next week to
>> run through those quickly? IIRC, we're scattered across US, Europe, and
>> Australia, which makes timezones tricky, but still possible (I have
>> another weekly dev meeting across those timezones).
>>
>> Allison
>>
>> -------- Original Message --------
>> Subject: update on ARB exception for /opt installation
>> Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2010 11:17:24 -0500
>> From: Allison Randal<allison at canonical.com>
>> To: ubuntu-devel at lists.ubuntu.com
>>
>> Tech Board met again today and agreed on:
>>
>> - Allow .desktop files to be installed outside /opt. This is the only
>> exception needed, and persia has a potential workaround for Maverick.
>> - In Natty, we'll modify Quickly, cdbs, python-support, and related
>> packages to support installation in /opt.
>> - For Maverick, accept that .pyc files and version symlinks won't be
>> generated for Python libraries.
>> - For Maverick, ARB will perform manual package fixes on proposed
>> applications, to install in /opt and load libraries from /opt.
>> - Binaries only in /opt (no exceptions for Maverick), will not be in $PATH.
>> - Official install location is /opt/extras.ubuntu.com/<packagename>
>> (with version number, i.e. "/opt/extras.ubuntu.com/foo-1.5")
>>
>> Allison
>>
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