Infrastructure meeting are (usually) on Fridays. david
On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 1:51 PM, Walter Bender <walter.ben...@gmail.com> wrote: > Maybe we can find a time in the next few days to all meet on IRC to > discuss this? CC'ng Bernie as he is most familiar with the SL > infrastructure. > > -walter > > On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 7:41 AM, David Van Assche <dvanass...@gmail.com> > wrote: >> I think that there is a kind of formal technical/distribution position >> forming here. Ie... someone that would be responsible for supporting >> distribution methods of sugar (this should not be confused with QA, >> bugsquad or anything else) It just needs to be a person that can say >> all the available methods of distribution, and perhaps working on >> communication between distros and Sugar team... what do u guys think? >> Marten or I are both capable of doing this job just fine, but it kind >> of overlaps with the infrastructure team... we'd need to be sure like >> Marten says we have access to a server to set up rsync, torrent >> distribution and even our own build Service (openSUSE build service is >> totally gpl ;-) ) What should this position be called, I have no >> idea, I came up with lateral distro architect, but I have no idea if >> that is specific enough or even too generic. >> >> What do u think? perhaps forming a team that me and marten can be >> integrated with seams obvious for the time being. Both of us also want >> to work towards centralised distribution methods that are push and not >> just pull, whatever they might be. I'm forwarding this to sugar-devel >> as well as this has to do with them too, and an olpc rep so that we >> can make sure they know what we are doing with sugar distribution. >> >> kind Regards, >> David (Nubae) Van Assche >> >> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Marten Vijn <i...@martenvijn.nl> wrote: >>> Thanks David, >>> >>> I will go for bandwith then asking for rsync as requirement. >>> A torrend would optional. >>> >>> Some things I would like to assure mirrors have to: >>> - have directory layout >>> - same names >>> >>> Features I would also like to have >>> - having a "Last_version" symlink to the last version. >>> (keep links valid over time) >>> - md5sums >>> - list of mirrors on the website >>> - or better mirror autoselection >>> >>> >>> Besides from getting bandwidth is there a way I can help to achieve >>> this? (I guess ssh access would be needed) >>> >>> Kind regards, >>> Marten >>> >>> >>> On Tue, 2009-05-19 at 12:10 +0200, David Van Assche wrote: >>>> One thing solution we use at openSUSE to get increcremental images, >>>> ie... you have an older version of SOAS or sugar or whatever image, >>>> but you want a newer one, well solution is to use rsync, but this >>>> would need to be enabled by the host (ie wherever all this is being >>>> hosted downloaded from [bernie, caroline?]): >>>> >>>> First check the latest image at: >>>> >>>> (This definetly works with openSUSE where sugar is completely >>>> integrated, even with an icon on the desktop that takes you straight >>>> into sugar from the desktop. The address for either SugarSuse or >>>> openSUSE-edu is here: >>>> http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Education/images/iso/ ) >>>> >>>> The Soas images (snapshots, ie latests sugar) are here as far as I can >>>> tell: http://download.sugarlabs.org/soas/snapshots/2/ >>>> >>>> Copy old image with exactly same name as new image available: >>>> >>>> cp oldimage.iso exact-name-new-image-is.iso >>>> >>>> Run rsync again to patch it: >>>> >>>> rsync -avP >>>> rsync://mirror.leaseweb.com/opensuse/repositories/Education/images/iso/exact-name-new-image-is.iso >>>> . >>>> >>>> Dot at the end with space before it is part of the command. >>>> >>>> This will download only the bytes that have changed, which in some >>>> cases is just few MBs, saving few GBs of download. >>>> >>>> Obviously p2p is another good solution to get initial images going if >>>> a couple of people choose to upload to linuxtracker.org or >>>> something... >>>> >>>> kind Regards, >>>> David (Nubae) Van Assche >>>> >>>> On Tue, May 19, 2009 at 11:51 AM, Marten Vijn <i...@martenvijn.nl> wrote: >>>> > Dear All, >>>> > >>>> > In the last 24 hours I talked to 12 persons about Sugar. >>>> > >>>> > - 6 persons have downloaded sugar and said to give feedback on Sugar >>>> > >>>> > - I have send a request for testing to i-netw...@dgroups.org. >>>> > This is one the main mailinglistings in Africa. >>>> > >>>> > My findings so far: >>>> > 1. Asking people to help works. I ask can you help me. Can you download >>>> > an iso, burn it to cd, boot it, and give you opinion an email? >>>> > This is very effective in shifting from "talking about" to "doing". >>>> > >>>> > 2. The download seems to be slow. >>>> > >>>> > Possible sollution, shall I ask for bandwith to mirror the iso image? >>>> > Can someone make familiar with an optimal solution >>>> > (syncing/redirecting). >>>> > >>>> > kind regards, >>>> > Marten >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > -- >>>> > http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn >>>> > http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick >>>> > http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit >>>> > http://har2009.org 13th-16th August >>>> > http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August >>>> > >>>> > _______________________________________________ >>>> > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>> > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>>> > >>>> _______________________________________________ >>>> IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) >>>> i...@lists.sugarlabs.org >>>> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep >>> -- >>> http://martenvijn.nl Marten Vijn >>> http://martenvijn.nl/trac/wiki/soas Sugar on a Stick >>> http://bsd.wifisoft.org/nek/ The Network Event Kit >>> http://har2009.org 13th-16th August >>> http://opencommunitycamp.org 26th Jul - 2nd August >>> >>> >> _______________________________________________ >> Marketing mailing list >> market...@lists.sugarlabs.org >> http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/marketing >> > > > > -- > Walter Bender > Sugar Labs > http://www.sugarlabs.org > _______________________________________________ > IAEP -- It's An Education Project (not a laptop project!) > i...@lists.sugarlabs.org > http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/iaep > _______________________________________________ Sugar-devel mailing list Sugar-devel@lists.sugarlabs.org http://lists.sugarlabs.org/listinfo/sugar-devel