Re: [Server-devel] [XSCE] [ANNOUNCE] Release 5.0 of XSCE
On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Tim Moody wrote:
> This is a slightly belated announcement of the release of the XSCE School
> Server version 5.0. The full release notes are included below. Those who
> have been following the project will notice the order of magnitude jump in
> release numbers, e.g. 0.5 has become 5.0. This has been done to avoid
> confusion between the XS and XSCE projects, especially as we approach the
> next release.
>
> XSCE has been tested on a variety of OLPC XO laptops and on 64 bit servers
> and VMs and has been installed on RaspberryPi, Trimslice, and experimentally
> on the Cubox.
>
> To get started (assuming you have git setup) please follow the instructions
> at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.rst
>
> The 5.0 release can be cloned by
>
> git clone https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.git --branch 5.0 --depth 1
>
> or if you want the entire repository:
>
> git clone https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.git
> git checkout 5.0
>
> The release notes that follow are at
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/ReleaseNotes5.0.rst
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> The focus of release 5.0 is making it easier for contributors to
> participate. This has been accomplished in three ways:
>
> 1) Better Documentation
>
> The documentation concerning installation, configuration, and usage has been
> greatly expanded and clarified. This includes information on alternative
> networking configurations and urls and ports to exercise the various
> services included. There are also an increased number of troubleshooting
> tips.
> The documentation is located at
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/tree/master/docs.
>
> 2) Relocation of Source to Github
>
> While the source code for the School Server has always been public, moving
> XSCE to github encourages a workflow that is becoming standard in the open
> source software industry wherein a git repository is cloned and contributors
> work on their own branches and then create pull requests which allow code to
> be rolled up to the master copy. Github facilitates this work flow and the
> School Server community has adopted it.
> The XSCE project is located at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.
>
> 3) Use of Ansible for Installation
>
> The XSCE project has been restructured around ansible playbooks. This has a
> number of benefits. First, it allows independent developers to work on their
> individual contributions to the project (mostly) without tripping over other
> developers. To further this aim an aggregate playbook 'addons' has been
> created as a home for installing the playbooks of these individuals.
> Secondly, the effort to perform a testing cycle is greatly reduced. Because
> ansible installs from a git clone it is not necessary to create a new rpm
> and install it in its entirety. A simple git pull gets the latest version
> for testing and this version can be ones own branch or the master. Ansible
> tags have been used widely throughout the playbooks so that it is now much
> easier to test a subset of functionality rather than having to test the
> entire install on each iteration.
> Ansible is documented at http://www.ansibleworks.com/.
> In addition to making it easier for a broader range of contributors, XSCE
> 5.0 includes the following:
>
> Two Flavors
>
> There are gateway and non-gateway ('appliance') flavors of XSCE. The
> installation attempts to determine the mode in which the server will operate
> based on attached network devices.
>
> Platforms
>
> XSCE has been tested on XO 1.5, 1.75, and 4 as well as on i386 and x64.
>
> RPM Based Install
>
> An RPM can be produced from the ansible playbooks using rpmbuild -bb
> xsce-server.spec. This RPM can then be installed using yum.
>
> Not included in this Release
>
> This release does not address the recent announcement that Fedora Core 18 is
> end of life. Experiments with Fedora Core 20 are promising and support is
> expected in a future release.
>
How well does this translate to CentOS 6.x for x86 and x64 machines?
Sameer
> Testing
>
> To get started please install git and then issue:
> git clone g...@github.com:XSCE/xsce.git
> cd xsce
> git checkout 5.0
> Please help test this and file bugs at
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/issues?state=open
>
>
>
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[Server-devel] [XSCE] [ANNOUNCE] Release 5.0 of XSCE
This is a slightly belated announcement of the release of the XSCE School
Server version 5.0. The full release notes are included below. Those who have
been following the project will notice the order of magnitude jump in release
numbers, e.g. 0.5 has become 5.0. This has been done to avoid confusion
between the XS and XSCE projects, especially as we approach the next release.
XSCE has been tested on a variety of OLPC XO laptops and on 64 bit servers and
VMs and has been installed on RaspberryPi, Trimslice, and experimentally on the
Cubox. To get started (assuming you have git setup) please follow the
instructions at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.rst The
5.0 release can be cloned by git clone https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.git
--branch 5.0 --depth 1 or if you want the entire repository: git clone
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.gitgit checkout 5.0 The release notes that follow
are at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/ReleaseNotes5.0.rst RELEASE
NOTES The focus of release 5.0 is making it easier for contributors to
participate. This has been accomplished in three ways:1) Better
DocumentationThe documentation concerning installation, configuration, and
usage has been greatly expanded and clarified. This includes information on
alternative networking configurations and urls and ports to exercise the
various services included. There are also an increased number of
troubleshooting tips.
The documentation is located at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/tree/master/docs.
2) Relocation of Source to GithubWhile the source code for the School Server
has always been public, moving XSCE to github encourages a workflow that is
becoming standard in the open source software industry wherein a git repository
is cloned and contributors work on their own branches and then create pull
requests which allow code to be rolled up to the master copy. Github
facilitates this work flow and the School Server community has adopted it.
The XSCE project is located at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.
3) Use of Ansible for InstallationThe XSCE project has been restructured around
ansible playbooks. This has a number of benefits. First, it allows independent
developers to work on their individual contributions to the project (mostly)
without tripping over other developers. To further this aim an aggregate
playbook 'addons' has been created as a home for installing the playbooks of
these individuals.
Secondly, the effort to perform a testing cycle is greatly reduced. Because
ansible installs from a git clone it is not necessary to create a new rpm and
install it in its entirety. A simple git pull gets the latest version for
testing and this version can be ones own branch or the master. Ansible tags
have been used widely throughout the playbooks so that it is now much easier to
test a subset of functionality rather than having to test the entire install on
each iteration.
Ansible is documented at http://www.ansibleworks.com/.
In addition to making it easier for a broader range of contributors, XSCE 5.0
includes the following:
Two FlavorsThere are gateway and non-gateway ('appliance') flavors of XSCE.
The installation attempts to determine the mode in which the server will
operate based on attached network devices.
PlatformsXSCE has been tested on XO 1.5, 1.75, and 4 as well as on i386 and x64.
RPM Based InstallAn RPM can be produced from the ansible playbooks using
rpmbuild -bb xsce-server.spec. This RPM can then be installed using yum.
Not included in this ReleaseThis release does not address the recent
announcement that Fedora Core 18 is end of life. Experiments with Fedora Core
20 are promising and support is expected in a future release.
TestingTo get started please install git and then issue:
git clone g...@github.com:XSCE/xsce.git
cd xsce
git checkout 5.0
Please help test this and file bugs at
https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/issues?state=open
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[Server-devel] Fedora 20 status
Hi After testing the xsce install on fedora 20 x86_64, I found the following issues: - cronie package doesn't have a "Provides:" field for vixie-cron, so some packages can't be installed (moodle-xs and ds-backup-server). I used a quick workarround, adding a "Provides" field to xsce-server.spec, building the rpm and installing it. - syck-python isn't build for fedora20. I created a patched rpm that builds with bison >= 2.7 , and is avaliable at http://xsce.activitycentral.com/repos/fc20/ So, for installing xsce 5.0 on fedora20, follow this steps: yum install -y git ansible rpm-build git clone https://github.com/scollazo/xsce.git cd xsce git checkout feature-fc20 rpmbuild -ba xsce-server.spec yum localinstall /root/rpmbuild/RPMS/noarch/... ./runansible In the near future, we will need to rebuild moodle-xs and ds-backup-server ,and change the dependency on vixie-cron to avoid the first issue. /santi -- Santiago Collazo Sysadmin Activity Central: http://activitycentral.com Facebook: https://activitycentral.com/facebook Google+: https://activitycentral.com/googleplus Twitter: https://activitycentral.com/twitter ___ Server-devel mailing list Server-devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel
