[seul-edu] ISO Phase 3

[Doug Loss <drloss@suscom.net>]

While we still need to get more Phase 1 and 2 evals done on the 
software in our App Index, I think we have enough apps that have 
passed Phase 2 that we can begin Phase 3, the packaging of those 
apps.  I think there are three ways to pursue this.

First, we should submit RFPs to Debian for all the apps we'd like 
to have packaged.  If someone picks them up and packages them, 
they'll be available for Debian use (including DebianEdu, of 
course) and for us to convert to RPMs and TGZs with alien.

Second, we should contact the maintainers of the individual 
packages and see if they either have already packaged them as 
DEBs, RPMs, and/or TGZs, or would be interested in doing so.  If 
we can get a substantial number of them to do this it will lessen 
our workload while giving them more exposure for their work.

Third, we should download and package any remaining Phase 2 apps 
ourselves.  I think we should initially package them as DEBs, 
then use alien to convert to the other formats.  This will allow 
us to maintain a similarity of process with apps done for the 
Debian project, and in fact will allow us to contribute to Debian 
(I think).  This will be a good thing for our visibility and good 
feeling toward us in other parts of the Linux community.

I'd like to have some people from this mailing list volunteer to 
help do these things.  I need someone to go through 
http://www.seul.org/edu/Phase2.txt and create Debian RFPs for any 
apps that aren't already in Debian or that don't already have 
RFPs listed.  I also need a few people to locate the maintainers 
of the apps on the above page and send them a message telling 
what we're doing and asking them for packaging help with their 
app.  I'll write up a template for this sort of message later.

After we've done all that we should have an idea of how much 
effort we need to put into the third option I've listed.  We'll 
definitely need some folks to step forward to help with that too.

OK folks, it's time for us all to roll up our sleeves and take on 
a bit of the workload for this ISO!  If we all help, we'll get 
this accomplished pretty quickly without too much work for any 
one of us.

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Doug Loss                 Courage is resistance to
Data Network Coordinator  fear, mastery of fear --
Bloomsburg University     not absence of fear.
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