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
