Today the Ubuntu Technical Board met and discussed a few topics that the Edubuntu Council put forward regarding the future technical direction of Edubuntu. I'm sending a copy of the Meeting Minutes below. I think it's a positive step forward for the Edubuntu community. If you have any questions please feel free to reply.
-Jordan P.S. Also feel free to congratulate Stéphane Graber (stgraber), Ubuntu LTSP maintainer, for making Ubuntu Core Developer today. == Edubuntu Releases for Karmic and Karmic+1 and hosting on Canonical infrastructure == Over the last few months, the Edubuntu development community has been going through a revitalization process, with quite a few new potential contributors and some rethinking. The add-on CD arrangement has come up as a practical concern for many new contributors, as it causes issues for easy installation on multiple computers and makes it hard to produce a single demonstration image (along the lines of the desktop CD for other flavours). The add-on CD was originally introduced because Edubuntu was largely an Ubuntu CD plus some additional education applications, needing two CDs anyway, and refactoring it as an add-on to Ubuntu seemed a reasonable way to keep testing requirements under control. The Edubuntu developers would like to move to a USB or DVD image to address this concern. The TB is happy for this to be worked out with the CD image team, provided that consideration is given to effective testing for release; any new image would supersede previous ones. In the 9.04 cycle, Edubuntu images were moved from the widely-mirrored releases.ubuntu.com server to cdimage.ubuntu.com. While this has caused some issues due to a reduced number of mirrors, releases vs. cdimage is purely an infrastructural concern (i.e. there's a maximum amount of data that mirrors are willing to contemplate before mirror administrators start dropping releases.ubuntu.com or only mirroring it partially), and does not indicate a status consideration. That decision was taken on the basis of which images are downloaded most. If there is a need for more mirrors than are available of cdimage.ubuntu.com, then we encourage the Edubuntu team to discuss this with mirror administrators on the ubuntu-mirrors mailing list. == Inclusion of universe within Edubuntu == Jordan and Stéphane expressed concern that the restriction of Edubuntu images to build only with main leads to a very limited selection of applications. They would like to expand this to include universe as well, similar to Xubuntu and other flavours. Due to pressure of time, the TB moved quickly to vote on this rather than discussing it extensively, but in any case were happy to approve this; since Edubuntu now has a broader scope than previously, and development is much less focused on Canonical, this seems to be a reasonable change. == Ubuntu Core Developer application for Stéphane Graber == Stéphane's application to join ubuntu-core-dev was approved. Congratulations and welcome! -- edubuntu-devel mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-devel
