[lsb-discuss] LSB conf call notes for 2008-08-13

Darren Davis ddavis at novell.com
Wed Aug 13 15:32:32 PDT 2008


Jeff Licquia wrote:
> Attendees: Jeff Licquia, Darren Davis, Dalibor Topic, Ron Hale-Evans, 
> Carlos Duclos, Jesper Thomschultz, Stew Benedict, Mats Wichmann, Russ 
> Herrold, Chris Thiel, George Kraft, Robert Schweikert, David Herron, 
> Vojtech Pavlik, Ted Tso, Jiri Dluhos.
>
> Introduce Chris Thiel.  Chris: Project Manager for SLES SDK.  Looking at 
> the idea of adding the LSB SDK, how to better support distros with 
> installing the tools.  Darren: how can the LSB people make it easier for 
> distros to include the tools.  Source or binary?  Conclusion: seems that 
> source is the best option.  Ted: can you also talk about improvements 
> that would make life easier?
>
> Chris: prefer to include source.  Had a look at the LF site for the SDK. 
>   It's tough to include prebuilt RPMs.  Taking a defined set of source 
> packages is easier than taking built RPMs.  Best form: source tarballs. 
>   Creating project in the openSuSE build service, with spec files, etc. 
>   Darren: preliminary project done there, but would be good for LSB 
> people to work on.  Alexey has created an account.  Darren: there are 
> preliminary projects.  Jiri has created these.  Could simplify our 
> management, because can build for all distros.  Ted: currently building 
> LSB-compliant, so they work anywhere, so might not be as useful.  Could 
> be interesting for the openSuSE build service to build LSB targets. 
> Darren: another issue.  Chris: aware of feature request, but not the 
> right people.  Shouldn't be difficult.  Ted: can it build from version 
> control?  Chris: bzr isn't supported; there's a project to add others. 
> Could write a script to do it.
>
> Ted: lots of things to take.  Chris: lsbcc, other SDK stuff, 
> app-checker.  Ted: app checker is five or six different packages; maybe 
> easier to reduce the number of pkgs.  Darren: redundant pieces, too. 
> Chris: removing redundancy is important.  Jiri: command-line appchk is 
> already in build service.  Jeff: project security?  Chris: by default, 
> project creator owns project.  Can create groups.  Packages are 
> contained in project.  Collaboration: build for different distros, 
> targets, etc.  Chris is willing to help getting acquainted.  Web 
> interface and command-line tool (like svn).
>
> Jeff: who shoudl do this from the LSB side?  Mats: might be early to 
> settle on that.  Ted: want this to be as automated as possible, so it's 
> easy to push to the build service.  Maybe it integrates into the 
> autobuild system.  Is the build service amenable to this?  Darren: yes, 
> command-line client.  Chris: presentations are available on the build 
> service, can present if needed.  Ted: email links to the presentations 
> to lsb-discuss?  Chris: OK.
>
> Jeff: eager to get the process going.  Ted: current efforts location? 
> Jiri posted a link to IRC:
>
> https://build.opensuse.org/package/show?package=lsb-appchk&project=home%3Ajdluhos%3Alsb-experimental
>
> Darren: login mechanism is hooked to Novell site login.  Chris: also 
> hooked to Bugzilla login.
>   

Here are the links to information about the openSUSE Build Service that 
I posted in IRC.

See FOSDEM Presentation:

http://tube.opensuse.org/

About openSUSE Build Service, command line interface, and programmatic API:

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/CLI

http://en.opensuse.org/Build_Service/Curl


> Java.  Jeff: introduce Dalibor and David.  Dalibor: trim some more 
> options from the man page.  Will work with Ron.  Decision to make trial 
> use not made yet?  Jeff: no decision; can be made as late as the 
> release.  Do we need a Java libchk?  Dalibor: probably best to delegate 
> that to the TCK.  Ted: may need something equivalent to a "hello world" 
> for Java anyway, but may not be able to do much more.  Dalibor: probably 
> has this test in the TCK.  Ted: probably, but we may need something more 
> in the LSB test suite if the TCK is decoupled from the rest of the tests.
>
> Dalibor has reached out to Russ.  Russ: putting together a set of legal 
> issues to consider.
>
> 4.0 status.  Database updates?  Mats: not quite done.  Bug fixes, plus 
> greater data on excluded interfaces.  Ted: not really an issue for the 
> 4.0 release, is it?  Mats: problem is, where do those bugs live?  Ted: 
> split bugs into "what to do for LSB 4" and "what we need to do eventually".
>
> Printing status.  Ted: realistically, it's probably not happening.
>
> Best-effort.  Jeff: need to review Jiri's spec for /proc, propose spec 
> wording (possibly based on Jiri's work), fix bugs.
>
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