OSTEP Meeting 2013-06-18

OSTEP Team Meeting 2013-06-18

Equipment Reorganization

Phase I:

• Done (mostly!) - Thanks Oatley

• Yosemite disk imaging

• Trimslice network setup

• Arndales need setup

• --> Builders available: 2013-06-21 (oatley)

Future (For 2013-06-30):

• Update Pidora builder chroot (oatley+fossjon+agreene) -> Update to ks-based environment

• Document!

• Upstream or figure out carry-forward plan for modified packages (for 2013-07-15)

• Slides + Icon

• Goal: ship NOOBS update by 4:30 today.

Pidora

Release status and feedback--

• NOOBS update

• • Image for NOOBS distribution will be done this afternoon

• • Image for non-NOOBS distribution requires rootfs-resize update to handle extended partitions

Building F18-updates, F19, Rawhide:

• agreene is buildmaster

• start building by 2013-06-28

Pidora blog--

• Need 2 articles per person by EOW (2013-06-21)

Firmware/kernel updates

• Perhaps update daily / automatically into updates-testing, and promote only periodically? (agreene for 2013-06-28)

Russian respin--

• Need i18n for firstboot: http://docs.python.org/2/library/gettext.html (fossjon for 2013-06-28)

• • ex usage: _("This is some text")

• • check modules from upstream, add to our modules

Build Tags

• Remove "candidate" from tag heirarchy for building (agreene w/ oatley for 2013-06-21)

• Add %{rpfr} macros (agreene for 2013-06-21)

• This will solve the %{dist} tag issues!

Optimizations

• No longer mash the f18 repos (agreene by 2013-06-28)

• No longer rsync the f18 repos (oatley by 2013-06-28)

• Possible to optimize the signing? (oatley to check)

Openstack

• x86_64 OpenStack setup (fossjon 2013-07-05)

• • Moving Iraq to room, set up as dashboard/controller/NAT

• • Australia as builder

Calxeda Hardware

• Still ONE STINKIN' REFERENCE NUMBER AWAY FROM ORDERING!!!

Schedule

• ctyler away: June 24-28, July 22-Aug 5

• oatley and ctyler at Flock Aug 8-12

• ctyler to find out about end-of-summer schedule

• July 1 & Aug 5 are statutory holidays

• oatley and agreene may take vacation in August