The people behind the Ubuntu project are ramping up planning for the next long term release of Ubuntu, code named Hardy Heron. The plan is to release that in April 2008.
We want to get Chandler into the official Hardy Heron repositories, so that Ubuntu users will be able to get Chandler like they get any other piece of software, i.e. using their package manager. The project wiki page is http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/UbuntuHardyHeronChandler. The wiki is the high level plan, actual work items should be filed as bugs (the tracking bug listed on the wiki). On a high level, the work needed includes packaging all modules that Chandler depends on as proper Ubuntu packages, and naturally packaging Chandler itself as well. There is also some other work required to work well in a shared install like Ubuntu where the application is installed in administrator mode but run as a normal user without write access in the installation directory. There are also some Ubuntu-specific customizations to be a good Ubuntu package. We could use some help in getting all of the packages upgraded and into the Ubuntu repositories. The wiki page has links to both Ubuntu and Debian guides on packaging. -- Heikki Toivonen
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