[Live-demo] OSGeoLive 6.5 RC1 status

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On Sat, 16 Feb 2013 17:53:16 +0200, Angelos Tzotsos 
<gcpp.kalxas at gmail.com> wrote:
Hi all,
> I have completed a new build based on 12.04.2 and it looks good so far. 
> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-debug-build10000.iso
> This could be RC2 if we decide to make this extra step towards Secure Boot. 
>
> I would like to hear more opinions about our options here. 
> Hamish proposed another option on IRC yesterday:
> 4. Release RC1 as Final and do a 6.5.1 with the 12.04.2 Xubuntu base 
> after a month or so, when more feedback will be available. 
>

from a testing point of view, you have to say, where are the risks?  e.g. 
What set of users and hardware are affected by the changes in 12.04.2 ?
How could those be at risk given this change?

internally, it is unlikely that application layer software is affected much by
a tiny point change like that, but what might the interactions be?
Are there changes that effect any of the software stacks?

The rote way to test is to mechanically re-examine all bugs, and 
re-examine all features, and re-examine all quickstarts, when there
is a platform change.. This is labor intensive and as noted, we dont
have the labor available to do that.. 

It is always smart to characterize the nature of the delta, and use
insight to try to find where bugs and problems are likely to be... 

Since Ubuntu Linux and the software on the Live is very complex,
I welcome the ideas of others to make good decisions about testing
to acheive quality, and decisions about change to lessen risk to quality. 

best regards
  -Brian

--
Brian M Hamlin
OSGeo California Chapter

>
> On 02/16/2013 12:03 AM, Alex Mandel wrote:
> > Secure boot support would simplify things for a great deal of users on
> > new hardware (Windows 8 boxes ship with it on). So it's a pretty
> > important feature going forward. I'm on the fence as to just putting a
> > bug acknowledging the issue, and that currently you have to disable
> > secure boot (pushing the fix to 7.0) vs just re-building with the new base. 
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Alex
> >
> > On 02/15/2013 01:30 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> >> Hi all,
> >>
> >> The only issue found in RC1 so far was a documentation problem (headers
> >> were inactive in the installers section). 
> >> No software issues were reported so far and no blocker issues. 
> >>
> >> Thanks Cameron for fixing the above issue. This fix was included in
> >> latest nightly build [1]. I tested this nightly build and everything
> >> works as in RC1. 
> >>
> >> During the last 24h a new iso for Xubuntu 12.04.2 was released [2]
> >> As per [3] there is Secure Boot support within the kernel included in
> >> this version. I believe that this update might be worthy for doing an
> >> upgrade and a RC2. 
> >>
> >> I have started a test nightly (build 9999), based on 12.04.2 iso and
> >> this will be available soon at [4]. 
> >>
> >> So our options:
> >> 1. Release RC1 as final. The doc issue is very minor in my opinion. 
> >> 2. Release build 9997 as final. The doc issue is fixed but I am the only
> >> one who tested it (I have tested UAT, VM installation and USB creation)
> >> 3. Build RC2 based on new Xubuntu iso and call this the final if
> >> everything works as expected. 
> >>
> >> Thoughts?
> >>
> >> Best,
> >> Angelos
> >>
> >>
> >> [1] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/osgeo-live-debug-build9997.iso
> >> [2]
> >> 
> http://se.archive.ubuntu.com/mirror/cdimage.ubuntu.com/xubuntu/releases/12.04/release/
> >>
> >> [3]
> >> 
> http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Secure-Boot-comes-to-Ubuntu-12-04-2-LTS-1804203.html
> >>
> >> [4] http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/dev/
> >>
> >> On 02/13/2013 09:00 PM, Angelos Tzotsos wrote:
> >>> Hi,
> >>>
> >>> Today we announce the first release candidate for OSGeoLive 6.5. 
> >>>
> >>> We are happy to report that we have no major known issues:
> >>> http://trac.osgeo.org/osgeo/report/11
> >>>
> >>> All applications have been tested the last few weeks, especially after
> >>> a very successful OSGeoLive hackathlon. 
> >>>
> >>> We now need more testers to check the installed applications before we
> >>> declare Final. 
> >>>
> >>> You can download the RC1 iso here:
> >>> http://aiolos.survey.ntua.gr/gisvm/6.5/osgeo-live-mini-6.5rc1.iso
> >>> 
> http://osprey.ucdavis.edu/downloads/osgeo/gisvm/gisvm/6.5rc1/osgeo-live-mini-6.5rc1.iso
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Greetings,
> >>> Angelos
> >>>
> >>>
> >>
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> -- Angelos Tzotsos
> Remote Sensing Laboratory
> National Technical University of Athens
> http://users.ntua.gr/tzotsos
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