Sounds like a great idea! Jeremy
> ...We have a team within Edubuntu, called "edubuntu-dev", it consists of the > current Edubuntu developers. You can see the team's page here. > > https://www.launchpad.net/~edubuntu-dev/ > > You'll notice that, about halfway down the page, we have 3 PPA's, namely: > Edubuntu Testing Archive > Edubuntu Stable Updates > Edubuntu Work in Progress > > Work in Progress for "Bleeding edge" or alpha quality work, "Testing" for beta > quality packages, and "Stable Updates" for updates to packages that are > currenly stable, but may have a bugfix that we can apply that hasn't yet made > it to the official archives. > > Per LaserJock's suggestion, I'd like to propose that the developers, and the > users, start taking advantage of this as the "Semi official" Edubuntu updates > repo, over and above the official Ubuntu-sponsored updates. It has several > advantages: > > 1) Users who wish to receive "more frequent" updates may add the appropriate > PPA to their apt config, and gain the benefits. > 2) Users who do NOT want to have anything other than the officially sponsored > updates can simply ignore this ppa. > 3) People who would like to become Edubuntu developers have a much lower > barrier to entry. After doing a bit of packaging or bugfixing work to prove > their worth, the Edubuntu Community Council can simply vote to have them as > part of the "edubuntu-dev" team. This gives them access to the > "edubuntu-dev" PPA's. If they choose, they can use their development work, > when they've done enough of it, to eventually apply for official MOTU-ship. > Or not, as they so choose. > 4) It's a "well known address" where we can point people to to potentially > receive more frequent updates. > > To me, it seems like a good course of action. By way of kicking it off, today > I'll push up a new version of Sabayon to "Testing". This new version will > allow you to apply Sabayon profiles by group, in addition to the usual > by-user. > > Thoughts? > > Scott > > -- > Scott L. Balneaves | He that breaks a thing to find out what it is > Systems Department | has left the path of wisdom. > Legal Aid Manitoba | -- J.R.R. Tolkien -- edubuntu-users mailing list [email protected] Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/edubuntu-users
