[Live-demo] IRC meeting to discuss RC3 and final releases of the liveDVD

[Cameron Shorter]

Alex,
Yes I agree that we should sort out the menu system before starting the 
next build.

It would be good, but not necessary to get the background sorted too.

Alex Mandel wrote:
> Cameron Shorter wrote:
>   
>> I suggest we have a meeting this Th/Fr to discuss outstanding issues on
>> the LiveDVD, as per wiki page below.
>>
>> Feel free to add items to the agenda
>>
>> http://wiki.osgeo.org/wiki/Live_GIS_Disc_Meeting_Minutes#Th.2FFr_4_Mar_2010
>>
>> Time:
>> http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2010&month=3&day=4&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=195&p4=179&p5=137
>> <http://timeanddate.com/worldclock/meetingdetails.html?year=2010&month=3&day=4&hour=19&min=0&sec=0&p1=22&p2=240&p3=195&p4=179&p5=137>
>>
>>
>> Location: irc://freenode.net#foss4g
>>
>> Background:
>>
>>    * According to our schedule, we are a few days late for our RC3
>>      release. I hope that we can the next release out this weekend,
>>     
>> http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB
>>
>>     
>> <http://spreadsheets.google.com/ccc?key=0Al9zh8DjmU_RdE1SYUN3YWJ2N1NpSUczbW9IRWZNclE&hl=en_GB>
>>
>>
>>    * And we have 12 days till the final release.
>>    * This meeting is to set out our plan for getting this final release
>>      out the door.
>>
>> Agenda:
>>
>>    * Planning and documenting testing, as per: [Live_GIS_Disc_Testing].
>>      I want to have a brief test description for every package, and
>>      then track that someone has tested every application.
>>    * Decide on background image
>>    * Decide on menu structure, (can we loose the icons from the desktop?)
>>    *  From the next release, we need to test creating an ISO image. Do
>>      we have a volunteer?
>>    * Documentation: I'd love it if someone could go through all
>>      documentation and make it consistent (without changing any
>>      content). If we are really keen, it would be good if someone could
>>      incorporate Jody's OpenOffice overview of each package, and
>>      incorporate this into the documentation build. Jody has documented
>>      how to start up and run most of the packages, using screen
>>      snapshots and all. I've worked out how we can convert these docs
>>      into HTML from an install script using abiword. If we haven't got
>>      time for this, it will need to wait until the next release.
>>
>>
>>     
>
> Opps, I didn't realize we had specific dates for RC builds. I was doing
> them as enough things got fixed and tasks were done. So in the case of
> the next one I was hoping to finish the menu moving madness before next
> build and the background change. Otherwise there would be almost no
> change between RC candidates (except that pgrouting might be fixed now).
>
> I can start building ISO files, with RC3. Should I wait until we've
> picked a background and decided on the menu business before I start the
> build?
>
> Maybe we need to stop calling these RC, since that implies that if
> nothing is wrong it will be the final version - but there are clearly
> broken an unfinished tasks known before the build.
>
> See you at the meeting.
>
> Thanks,
> Alex
>
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