[Pkg-r-builders] Restart?
Dirk Eddelbuettel
edd at debian.org
Thu Aug 24 00:08:57 UTC 2017
On 23 August 2017 at 14:21, Michael Rutter wrote:
|
| Yes, I agree we need a little reset to get going. I, without warning,
| got a new job this summer, essentially associate dean of the School of
| Science at Penn State Behrend. That has taken some time to adjust to,
| but now that the semester has started, my schedule is settling down.
Well, congrats!
| I think we need some sort of road map. If we can break things up into
| smaller chunks, that would give me a target to work towards.
As I mentioned: can you and I maybe get your code (for the PPA repos) onto
the box, and I will try to combine with the code to build .deb packages,
after suitable changes (Debian <-> Ubuntu and whatnot) ?
| My mornings (eastern time) are free for a meeting.
Ok.
| Slowly creeping towards the dark side of administration,
:)
Dirk
| Michael
|
| On 08/22/2017 06:42 PM, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| >
| > Hi all,
| >
| > I hope summer has been good to everybody. We have one or two open issues
| > with the ISC itself (need to sign contract, they want status reports). I have
| > no issue saying that we were slow starting.
| >
| > But I am a little worried that we never got going. I remain motivated, and
| > maybe the best thing to do is to just ... get going.
| >
| > So here are two quick proposals:
| >
| > - We need another quick call, if possible. Timezones are an issue. When/where?
| >
| > - I think we should just start hacking. In two largely independent moves:
| >
| > - Generate packages: maybe I can work on that, and maybe off Michael's
| > code base? Is that somewhere?
| >
| > - Build package: I am perfectly happy to just "hack" away with pbuilder
| > before Don sets up something better. Other thoughts?
| >
| >
| > - Shall we set up a Slack channel or something more informal?
| >
| > That's all for now. Let's try to catch up on a few days.
| >
| > Cheers, Dirk
| >
|
|
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