In terms of packaging I am more then willing to help out with packaging this and potentially getting it included in Ubuntu 12.10 releases. I know someone whose a pro at packaging who could more then likely mentor me, if its something that I could help with in terms of packaging.
On Thu, Jun 6, 2013 at 4:34 PM, Florian Effenberger < flo...@documentfoundation.org> wrote: > Hello, > > I wanted to follow-up with some details on the MirrorBrain migration > that's still in the works - and telling why it takes so long. ;-) > > TL;DR: We need to package MirrorBrain on our own and contribute that > upstream. As I lack development experience, help is needed. Cloph will > support me, and maybe Alex and Robert would like to join? > > So far, we have been running MirrorBrain on an Ubuntu 10.04 based machine, > where official packages do exist. For the migration to a 12.04-based > system, we had success with using the official packages for Ubuntu 11.10 > (as no newer ones did exist). > > I used this version as basis for installing it on the new machine and > documenting it there. > > Just when I was ready to pull the plug, those packages disappeared all of > a sudden from the official download location - reason is unknown, maybe > some recent changes broke the build. > > I managed to come up with my own set of packages, thanks to the help of > Michael and Kendy, available at http://download.opensuse.org/** > repositories/home:/floeff/<http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/home:/floeff/>. > The installation of those work, although some more manual intervention is > necessary, e.g. with regards to Python modules, and I have quite a huge > documentation patchset compared with the official version. > > I feel a bit honoured, as I just heard that the VLC folks seem to > officially use my build now that I've also created for Debian 7.0. ;-) > > However, I still don't feel comfortable with the result, even if it works > - target OS is Ubuntu 11.10, and I have to manually update the mod_geoip > module to support IPv6, plus some other fixes and glitches. Feedback I have > received so far tells me several other projects using MirrorBrain are > suffering from similar issues, and IMHO, for such a central infrastructure > as the download redirector, having a clean and stable basis is a must. > > Sadly, I totally lack development experience. While I basically of course > do understand how packaging works, I'm really a newbie here, and I think it > would take a while to get me introduced to all that magic. ;-) > > I just gave Cloph a call, and he will help me. What I'd like to have is > that we - either via the OpenSUSE build service, or on one of our own > machines - provide clean and stable packages, at least for Ubuntu 12.04 and > Debian 7. This requires developing our own control files, taking into > account dependencies and the like, and I'd also like to contribute those > upstream, to the benefit of all MirrorBrain users. > > @Alex, Robert: Would you like to join these efforts? You two also do have > development experience, and could be a great help! We could meet for an > afternoon or evening in Munich and try to get it running. > > Thanks, > Florian > > -- > To unsubscribe e-mail to: > website+unsubscribe@global.**libreoffice.org<website%2bunsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org> > Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/**get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-** > unsubscribe/<http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/> > Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.**documentfoundation.org/** > Netiquette <http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette> > List archive: > http://listarchives.**libreoffice.org/global/**website/<http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/> > All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be > deleted > > -- Jonathan Aquilina -- To unsubscribe e-mail to: website+unsubscr...@global.libreoffice.org Problems? http://www.libreoffice.org/get-help/mailing-lists/how-to-unsubscribe/ Posting guidelines + more: http://wiki.documentfoundation.org/Netiquette List archive: http://listarchives.libreoffice.org/global/website/ All messages sent to this list will be publicly archived and cannot be deleted
