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Re: publicity
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Abbott)
Thu Feb 26 20:02:50 2009
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 19:57:52 -0500 (EST)
From: Tim Abbott <tabbott@MIT.EDU>
To: Jonathan D Reed <jdreed@mit.edu>
cc: Evan Broder <broder@mit.edu>, William Cattey <wdc@mit.edu>,
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On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Jonathan D Reed wrote:
> On Thu, 26 Feb 2009, Evan Broder wrote:
>
> > I like debathena.mit.edu/beta/ - I know it was created to preview what a
> > merged website looks like, but calling this "Debathena Beta" seems more
> > or less appropriate.
> >
>
> That was my thinking, but I wasn't sure if there would be any objections to
> calling it "Debathena Beta".
Fine with me.
> This idea has the following advantages:
> - The debathena website can be an evolving concept, and trivially replace
> debathena.mit.edu when we're ready.
> - The URL matches the naming scheme.
> - We don't have to migrate content formats twice.
>
> There are a couple of cons, as I see it:
> - It requires merging the installers (we should have one installer page). This
> means that debathena-workstation and lower should have the same packages
> across both repos. (ie: if I install debathena-workstation from the debathena
> repo, I should get exactly what I get from the athena10 repo). I think this
> is mostly true, right? We would have to merge the greeters, I guess. I don't
> care if cluster machines stick with the athena10 repo for now, but since we're
> planning on merging, we should minimize the number of machines that we don't
> control which are using the athena10 repo.
> - Hrm, I guess that's only one con.
>
> Thoughts?
Sounds reasonable. I will attempt this weekend to make sure the following
happen:
(1) a merged installer is committed and deployed on debathena.mit.edu
(2) the apt repositories are compared to make sure we're aware of any
outstanding differences.
Since I'm sick and hosed, this will probably involve pestering other
people. Since there's a reasonable amount of Debathena work needing doing
(e.g. recompiling all our lenny packages and fixing the
debathena-gconf2-config bug that's now been reported by price as well as
orbitee), I will attempt to organize a SIPB hackathon this Saturday.
-Tim Abbott
