[libreoffice-website] update on MirrorBrain

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/. 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

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