Mailinglist Archive: opensuse-edu (29 mails)

[Andrea Florio <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thorsten Wagner ha scritto:
> 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 (?)

indeed, you just need to add that one, but as you can see in release
notes, that one may have unstable (or not well packaged) packages

> 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?


Education:Desktop and Education:server repositories has been merged in
main Education repository. The packages not yet moved have problems. So
you are Warn : DO NOT USE THEM.


> 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?


i miss something too...

Lars can you help us? Cyberorg you?


> 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



home projects are factory, you should NEVER use them. And even if you
are sure of what are you doing you are warn. packages may be broken

Andrea