Re: [libreoffice-website] update on MirrorBrain

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 <
floeff@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
>
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