Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (29 mails)

[Thorsten Wagner <wthorsten27@xxxxxxxx>]

Hi

First: my Name is Thorsten and I'm a trainee teacher in a school in germany. 
I'm currently trying to migrate some of our PCs to openSUSE - which works very 
well! Thanks to all!

While searching for additional apps which are not part of the 
openSUSE-Education Add on DVD, I found a lot of "Education" projects in the 
openSUSE Build Service and now I'm a bit confused about the state of these 
different projects. I hope, somebody here can help me to get an overview about 
the different repositories. (Note: I know the official Education repository on 
www.opensuse-education.org already - I just want to get an overview how things 
work together in openSUSE ;-)
 
I found the following projects (and I hope my suggestions about there status 
are true - otherwise, please correct me):
1) "Education"
...which is IMHO the "original" project (?)

2) Education:deskop
...which is the project for Desktop applications as described in the wiki. But 
this project doesn't contain so much packages as the Education project (?)

3) Education:server:Factory
described as "This project is used by jfehlig to prepare packages for 
openSUSE:Factory submissions. Usually all package changes should get submitted 
here for review and testing first." But the project just contains the package 
moodle and two Novell employees as maintainers. What's the meaning of this 
project?

4) Education:server:OSS
Announced as "Packages for the current stable Open School Server." - What is 
the "Open School Server"? Is this the Server from Extis?

5) isv:hp:education
The description of this project sounds very interesting to me:
"HP and Novell have joined forces to create the most compelling open source 
desktop solution for Schools. From the tremendous work of the openSUSE 
Education community, HP and Novell are looking to leverage the openSUSE Build 
Service to create a central place where educators and students alike will be 
able to find all the greatest open source software for Education."

Currently I miss the announcement of this cooperation on the Novell or HP side. 
Can someone please point me to such an official press announcement?
Does this mean, packages in this repository will be official maintained?
But I'm a bit confused as I just see one maintainer of the Education project 
being part of the isv:hp:education project - and most of the project-members in 
isv:hp:education are from Novell or HP. But many packages in the HP-Repository 
are just symlinks to the Education or other projects. Is this intended? Why?

6) home:*
Some home-Projects also "talk" about Education - some of those home-project 
maintainers are already part of the Education or HP-Project - so I think these 
are their "development" repositories. But other home-Project maintainers are 
not part of any project - what's the status here?

Thanks in advance for your answers!

With kind regards,
Thorsten



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