Fall 2009 SBR600 Weekly Schedule
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Please note:
- The schedule here is tentative.
- Week-by-week details will be filled in as the course progresses.
Week 1 (September 8) - Introduction
Tuesday
- Welcome
- Introductions
- Intro to Build & Release
- Brief overview of the process
- Versioning & repository systems
- Compilation
- Testing
- Packaging
- Compositing
- Release
- Distribution
- Mirroring
- These steps vary according to the particular project/product. For example, when distributing software physically, "Release" means performing a RTM, where the final "gold disk" is sent to the duplicating house to be mass-produced; but when distributing software electronically, "Release" means sending the software to the online distribution system. The sequence of steps also varies between projects/products.
- Brief overview of the process
- Course Layout
- Project-based course
- Working with Open Source
- Working with the Fedora Project
- Communication Tools
- Course Outline
- Visit the CDOT Area
Thursday
- Make
- Makefile Basics
- Targets, Dependencies, and Commands
- Implied rules (e.g., .o files)
- Examples
- Building software from a source tarball using a makefile
Readings/Resources
- Two simple makefile examples
ToDo
Communication Lab: By Wednesday, September 9, Set up your accounts (wiki, IRC, FAS2).
- Create a blog post which will appear on the OpenSource@Seneca Planet, containing:
- A portion of an IRC conversation you've had with someone on a Fedora or Seneca IRC channel.
- A link to your User page on the Seneca wikis
- A link to your User page on the Fedora wiki
- Note: don't just dump this stuff in a blog post, add some introductory text as well!
- Add an entry to the Fall 2009 SBR600 Participants page
Register for:
Lab 1: By Tuesday, September 15:
- Build 2 packages from Source
- The NLED editor from http://cdot.senecac.on.ca
- Any package that uses a configure script -- SourceForge might be a good place to look for such packages.
- Blog about the experience.
Week 2 (September 15) - Overview of the Build and Release Processs
Week 3 (September 22) - Creating RPM Packages I
Week 4 (September 29) - Creating RPM Packages II
Week 5 (October 6) - Compositing
Guests
- Ben Hearsum and Armen Zambrano Gasparnian from the Mozilla build team will discuss what Build & Release means in the Mozilla context.
Week 6 (October 13) - Distributing
Week 7 (October 20) - Server Farms I
Study Week (October 27)
Week 8 (November 3) - Server Farms II
Week 9 (November 10) - Distributed Processing
Week 10 (November 17) - Virtualization
Week 11 (November 24) - Monitoring & Management
Week 12 (December 1) - Presentations
FUDCon (December 5-7)
- Please plan on attending the Saturday Unconference.
Week 13 (December 8) - Wrap-
Exam Week (December 15)
- There is no exam in this course.