Heikki Toivonen wrote: > 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
Bear was recently at a conference with the Ubuntu people where Hardy Heron was discussed. There has been some talk on what he learned, but we'd better put it all on the list as well so everyone will have the same info. Some things I remember bear saying: * openjdk won't make it as the default java in Hardy Heron timeframe. I think this means that we either need to still ship Chandler with openjdk, or we'll have to pick some java package to depend on. I'd prefer if we picked sun-java 6 dependency rather than ship openjdk (of course if openjdk package is included in Hardy Heron we should go for that). * It will be a lot harder to get to "main" repositories as opposed to "universe" or others. I don't actually think this is a problem, I'd be happy with anything at all where the user needs at most to do the following to get Chandler: enable universe/whatever repository in synaptic, update, click to install chandler. I found the Hardy Heron release schedule at https://wiki.ubuntu.com/HardyReleaseSchedule and one thing that immediately pops out at me is the Debian import freeze on December 13th. I think the easiest way to get into Ubuntu is by being packaged by Debian, so this route is open for only about a month. We need people to step up to help with packing. There are still many things that are not clear to me, though. Are there other tasks we need to do that are not on the list at http://chandlerproject.org/Projects/UbuntuHardyHeronChandler? Did the Ubuntu folks offer any advice on doing the tasks and getting into the repositories? Bear, anything else you learned that is relevant to getting into Hardy Heron? -- Heikki Toivonen
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