Report from the Debian Edu developer gathering in Hamburg --------------------------------------------------------- (June 3rd - 5th 2011)
Our goal: to prepare the release of Debian Edu Squeeze Attendees: 8 (6 from Germany, one from Norway, one from Spain) plus Gizmo (our artist, see below) and several other people who showed by for some time (mostly from "Chaos macht Schule", see below) Pics: http://album.db3ydh.de/main.php?g2_itemId=4770 Webpage: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Gathering/2011-Hamburg Things being worked on: - documentation - gosa fixes (netgroup plugin) - local non-admin user - samba integration - testing of our squeeze installation images, we did 65 test-installs in Hamburg alone, plus there was a mini-gathering in Trondheim in parallel: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Gathering/2011-Hamburg/trondheim-test-report - svn r73285:73506 - more than 200 commits! - fixing DVD images to support i386 LTSP chroot creation - artwork - store installer password as ssha in ldap to fix gosa problems Bugs fixed (in svn & our repo): #629042 #629044 #602863 #629060 #606127 #606314 #602859 #629049 #613167 #617371 #617363 #602859 #602863 #487413 #629062 #629062 #629040 #629058 and a bunch of bugs filed against bugs.skolelinux.org TASK COMPLETED BY / WORKED ON BY: Bugs filed: about 20, not tracked :( (Will improve tracking next time :) The big result^wgoal of the meeting: - Beta1 release - codename "no more nice to have" (still pending, but we're still working on it daily since the gathering) - known problems atm: windows clients cannot join the samba domain Individual work done - Mike Gabriel include netgroups GOsa² plugin into source package debian-edu-config (as binary package: debian-edu-config-gosa-netgroups) add localadmin user account for doing initial set up of a Debian Edu network fixed Krb5/NFSv4 on diskless workstations remove NTP server 127.127.1.0 from tjener's ntpd.conf, replaced by Debian defaults revert Samba security=ADS configuration to security=DOMAIN - Klaus Ade Johnstad Setup test environment testing and bugging GOsa² testing diskless and thinclients filing GOsa² bugs - Jürgen Leibner documentation of GOsa² used to configure Debian Edu - Daniel Hess Store 'super-admin's password in a GOsa compatible way Fix ltsp chroot creation for i386 with DVD install Fixing bugs in our d-i scripts package uploads - Andi Mundt GOsa tests/fixes (+ldap+installation) gathering motivation, thoughts and ideas for the future - Alejandro Escanero Blanco work on gosa upstream help us with our gosa setup, fix some bugs (ie https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/ticket/1144) plus enhancements to "our" netgroups plugin) - Holger Levsen host people at Attraktor hackerspace prepare sprint, maintain report and publish it organize RL status meetings at the meeting sponsor package uploads help people with packaging questions etc help gizmo with requirements etc for new debian-edu artwork bug triage in the BTS - Christoph Muetze (gizmo or http://twitter.com/chris_muetze) create beautiful artwork (work in progress, soon to be included in the debian-edu-artwork package) - Marcel Sandow translation GOsa netgroups documentation of GOsa (work in progress) Extras ------ We also had a 90min discussion with two persons from "Chaos macht Schule", which is a CCC subproject. where CCC people go to schools and talk about data privacy, computer & net security and such subjects. As we both deal with pupils, teachers & parents, but from different perspectives, this was quite interesting. We also had a small Cheese & Wine party, with some cheese from Spain and one of the very last bottles of Debian wine from DebConf9 in Extremadura! You've missed a great event :-D Thanks ------- Many thanks to the CCC Hamburg for letting us use the attraktor hackerspace! Many thanks to Opensides.be, the OLPC.de association and the Debian sprints program for their financially supporting the event! If you want to support these events, please donate via http://www.debian.org/donations Thanks to $you, for making the event a success and to $you, for reading this far! Cheers! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [email protected] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [email protected] Archive: http://lists.debian.org/[email protected]
