Development workflow, and official "Edubuntu PPA"'s...

[David Van Assche]

yeah all sounds good. My suggestion would be to have a -unstable release
that is basically what is being  worked on from day to day... Opensuse-edu
does this and it works quite well, as we can rsync it, to just get basic
changes whenever we wanna check it out. What do you think. Oh... and I'd
llike to take the opportunity to be part of the dev team. Let me know what I
need to do, and I'll document it for other people wanting to do the same
thing. At opensuse, it was just a matter of getting invovled with whatever
by getting th source code, then uploading to build service, together with a
structured rpm build documnet.

I imagine the processwill be similar though somewha les automated and using
differet tools like bazaar and other LP sutff,

Anyway, a step by steo guide will go a long way, and I'm happy to write this
as I go through the prcoedss :-)

kind regards,
David (nubae) Van Assche

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 5:04 PM, Jeremy Bicha <jeremy at bicha.net> wrote:

> Sounds like a great idea!
>
> Jeremy
>
> > ...We have a team within Edubuntu, called "edubuntu-dev", it consists of
> the
> > current Edubuntu developers.  You can see the team's page here.
> >
> > https://www.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev/<https://www.launchpad.net/%7Eedubuntu-dev/>
> >
> > You'll notice that, about halfway down the page, we have 3 PPA's, namely:
> > Edubuntu Testing Archive
> > Edubuntu Stable Updates
> > Edubuntu Work in Progress
> >
> > Work in Progress for "Bleeding edge" or alpha quality work, "Testing" for
> beta
> > quality packages, and "Stable Updates" for updates to packages that are
> > currenly stable, but may have a bugfix that we can apply that hasn't yet
> made
> > it to the official archives.
> >
> > Per LaserJock's suggestion, I'd like to propose that the developers, and
> the
> > users, start taking advantage of this as the "Semi official" Edubuntu
> updates
> > repo, over and above the official Ubuntu-sponsored updates.  It has
> several
> > advantages:
> >
> > 1) Users who wish to receive "more frequent" updates may add the
> appropriate
> >   PPA to their apt config, and gain the benefits.
> > 2) Users who do NOT want to have anything other than the officially
> sponsored
> >   updates can simply ignore this ppa.
> > 3) People who would like to become Edubuntu developers have a much lower
> >   barrier to entry.  After doing a bit of packaging or bugfixing work to
> prove
> >   their worth, the Edubuntu Community Council can simply vote to have
> them as
> >   part of the "edubuntu-dev" team.  This gives them access to the
> >   "edubuntu-dev" PPA's.  If they choose, they can use their development
> work,
> >   when they've done enough of it, to eventually apply for official
> MOTU-ship.
> >   Or not, as they so choose.
> > 4) It's a "well known address" where we can point people to to
> potentially
> >   receive more frequent updates.
> >
> > To me, it seems like a good course of action.  By way of kicking it off,
> today
> > I'll push up a new version of Sabayon to "Testing".  This new version
> will
> > allow you to apply Sabayon profiles by group, in addition to the usual
> by-user.
> >
> > Thoughts?
> >
> > Scott
> >
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