Fwd: update on ARB exception for /opt installation

[Elliot Murphy]

That time works for me! Thanks for proposing a concrete time, I was
fretting just this morning about how to figure this out to propose
something specific.

On Thu, Dec 2, 2010 at 3:43 PM, Allison Randal
<allison.randal at canonical.com> wrote:
> 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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