[Pkg-r-builders] Restart?

[Dirk Eddelbuettel]

Hi Michael,

On 23 August 2017 at 19:08, Dirk Eddelbuettel wrote:
| 
| 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) ?

Another poke:  Can you and I maybe try to start with your code base there?

Dirk
  
| | 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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