On Thu, Apr 7, 2011 at 4:32 PM, James Troup <james.tr...@canonical.com> wrote: > I appreciate the frustration people have with gobby and I'd be happy to > run something better if that's what you guys want to do - the only thing > I'd ask is that someone package Etherpad first[1].
Hi James, I started with some source packages for Etherpad 1.1 I found here: * http://apt.etherpad.org/dists/all/source/ I made a few minor modifications: 1) used openjdk instead of sun java 2) ported the most important subset of the (broken) init script to (a working) upstart configuration 3) updated debian/control and debian/rules accordingly With that, I've pushed it to ppa:etherpad/ppa: * https://launchpad.net/~etherpad/+archive/ppa/+packages This package is now apt-get installable on Natty. You have to answer a few debconf questions, setting passwords for mysql and etherpad, etc. There's certainly room for improvement there, but a few seconds later, I was able to use an Etherpad instance running on http://localhost:9000. Now I'm not necessarily volunteering to be the Etherpad maintainer for now and evermore, but perhaps some of the people here who are vocally opposed to Gobby might step up and help with the packaging? It suffers from most the usual ailments endemic to large Java packages in Debian/Ubuntu. The debconf could use a little bit of love. And obviously the change from sunjdk -> openjdk needs a bit of testing. I can do a complete review of the packaging as an Archive Admin and publish my notes, if we want to consider it for inclusion in Universe for Oneiric, but I haven't done so thus far. Perhaps Jorge/Daniel could get an instance running in a beefy Amazon EC2 instance (m2.4xlarge with 64GB of memory?) and drum up an Etherpad-testing-day ASAP with your requisite 100+ concurrent sessions. I suspect some configuration tweaks will be necessary, which should perhaps be folded back into the packaging itself. James, is this a reasonable starting point? And is there anyone out there on ubuntu-devel@ who feels strongly enough about Etherpad/Gobby to pick up this packaging/testing and take it from here? -- :-Dustin Dustin Kirkland Ubuntu Core Developer -- ubuntu-devel mailing list ubuntu-devel@lists.ubuntu.com Modify settings or unsubscribe at: https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-devel