Dave, Speaking as a teacher, this would be a fantastic idea! We could have a tool to build our own spin.
I am not a developer, but would happy to work on requirements. Thanks. Gerald On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 10:31 AM, Dave Bauer <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, May 26, 2010 at 3:50 PM, Daniel Drake <[email protected]> wrote: > ... > > > > 4. Build/customization documentation - in addition to actually > > adjusting the process to make customization clean and possible, > > they've written *good documentation* on how to do it, even ready for > > the release date and not done as an afterthought: > > http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/docs/customization-guide/ > > > > > > Thanks to the SoaS contributors, great work! > > Daniel > > > ... > > and thanks to Daniel for the email that inspired this idea. > > Based on the idea of making it easy to customize SoaS I had an > advanced idea to make it even easier. I can't personally work on this, > but maybe there is someone who can develop this idea further. > > I am thinking of a web-based form that would allow deployments to > customize their own SoaS spin. This would simplify things because the > deployment wouldn't need a lot of bandwidth to build the custom SoaS, > and would not have to setup a Fedora 13 install to do the builds. This > is sort of like http://susestudio.com/ which is supported by Novell, > and unfortunately the underlying platform is not open source. > > I chatted with Mel and Sebastian on #sugar last night and we agreed > this was an interesting idea. > > The first step could be just a web based form to generate a correct > custom kickstart file, which a deployment would download to do a > custom build. > > The next step would be to setup a local Fedora repository so the > packages don't need to be downloaded for every build. Then after that > a system could be designed to take the custom kickstart files and > build custom ISOs. > > It would probably make sense to limit this to registered deployments > in the beginning until it was known exactly how much resources would > be consumed. > > I hope this summary idea will be useful, and I regret I cannot > personally build this, I really like the idea. > > Dave > > -- > Dave Bauer > [email protected] > http://www.solutiongrove.com > _______________________________________________ > Sugar-devel mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel >
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