Just before Christmas, I finally found time to look into the Debian Edu distribution again, and was sad to discover that the installation did not work at all (hang), and when that hang was fixed there were heaps of other blocking problems making the setup unfit for release.
Since then I have fixed heaps of problems, and with good help from the rest of the developer team we now have a set of CD and DVD images that are installable and limping along quite well. This has taken most of the last two to three weeks, and I estimate it will take another two weeks with rather extensive changes before the code and configuration base is stable enough for us to start the final polishing. I do not expect many radical changes, and will be around to test and fix any issues detected during testing. At the moment I do around 3-4 test installations a day, and I discover a new set of bugs and misfeatures every time I install. Fixes are committed as I find them, and it is based on this testing experience I believe we need two weeks to work our way up from fixing the basic to the more high level features. The next test release, beta2, will be wrapped up this weekend, and I hope a lot of you will gather around to test it and see if it work for you. Single machine setups seem to work fairly well, so now we need to see how multi machine setups work. :) The next release after that is planned two weeks later, and for this beta3 I hope the distribution is almost ready for release candidates and a proper release. I suspect we would want two more beta or rc releases after this to do the final polishing before we publish the Debian Edu/squeeze version. This bring us too close to the end of the security support for Debian/Lenny, but that is a sad result of the lack of people involved with the development of Debian Edu these days, and the fact that very little development have been done the last year. -- Happy hacking Petter Reinholdtsen -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
