MPU Meeting 31st July 2006

Mac mini

Chris has installed the Mac mini. He will now configure against DICE auth/dir services and install buildtools etc (ACTION: Chris)

Procedures documentation

Chris gets a for making a start on the procedures documentation.

64 bit updaterpms

Alastair has started looking at 64 bit support in updaterpms. He has some idea of what is required, but unfortunately it involves changing the semantics of the rpmcfg file and thus would involve changes not only to updaterpms, but also to the LCFG compiler. He has discussed these with Paul, but this won't happen for a couple of months. Meanwhile Stephen suggested making the required changes to updaterpms and using a convertor shim between the LCFG generated rpmcfg and updaterpms. Alastair will continue to work on this. (ACTION: Alastair)

Other 64 bit work

Stephen has done some more work on the 64 bit platform, but is now blocked on updaterpms being ported. The project is currently at stage 4 - we now need to flesh out the proposal. (ACTION: Alastair/Stephen)

install CD

It was agreed that it would be a good idea to create an LCFG install CD as part of building a release. Chris will look at this when looking at scripting the release building. (ACTION: Chris)

PXE install

we need to automate the building of the PXE install. It would be really useful to do this when building a test release. Stephen will discuss with Iain. (ACTION: Stephen)

CSOs

All to consider what tasks we could give to CSOs to do. We will discuss next week (ACTION: All)

This Week

Alastair will

• start work on rpmsubmit project, looking at AFS repository
• continue work on updaterpms 64 bit

Chris will

• issue a testing and stable release
• work on the status page hierarchy
• install the mac mini
• flesh out solaris enhancement project

Stephen will

• continue to flesh out the LCFG distribution project plan and start work on the project

For next week's meeting

• bugzilla components
• staff development time
• project proposal for DICE/LCFG under emulators (Parallels,VMware)
• development projects - documentation,milestones etc
• diydice server to FC5 - and discuss moving rsync.lcfg.org and www.lcfg.org to this server too
• time monitoring
• Solaris platform (Chris's mail)
• removing auto build directory for FC5

-- AlastairScobie - 01 Aug 2006