[Server-devel] Introduction / What can I do to help?

SgtPepper ncorrare at gmail.com
Wed Aug 11 22:04:53 EDT 2010


Jerry,
The xs-livecd kickstart for f9 (from the git repo), is the same that you're
using for Fedora 11?

Is there anything in particular I can start working with? or shall I just
build the Image, test what I like / dislike, and go ahead and fix stuff?.

2010/8/11 SgtPepper <ncorrare at gmail.com>

> Jerry,
> Are you in the IRC? in what channel?
>
> 2010/8/11 Jerry Vonau <jvonau at shaw.ca>
>
> On Tue, 2010-08-10 at 17:34 -0300, SgtPepper wrote:
>> > Hi Guys!
>> > I'm Nicolas Corrarello, from Argentina. I used to be a Red Hat
>> > Technical Support Engineer, now I'm working at Symantec. I met Walter
>> > Bender, and the XO a few years ago.. and since then I've been a
>> > believer. I'm a UNIX Sysadmin and Fedora Contributor and I'd love to
>> > help with the project in any way I can. If you need to contact me you
>> > can reach me via Google Talk (ncorrare at gmail.com) or M$N messenger
>> > (nicolascorrarello at fibertel.com.ar). I generally have my ipkall number
>> > transfered to my cellphone (+1 (253) 242 8786) so you can reach me in
>> > that number at any time.
>> >
>> Welcome aboard.
>>
>> > I've been checking the server distribution, you've done a great job.
>> > I'd love to help in new builds. Are you using a bugzilla or something
>> > like that?
>> Think for the most part, the discussion goes on here, on the list.
>>
>> > I've been thinking on maybe creating a firstboot module to perform the
>> > configuration that now is done via
>> > the /etc/sysconfig/olpc-scripts/domain_config script, or stuff like
>> > that. In any case.. let me know what can I do to help, and what tools
>> > are you using for the builds.
>>
>> Now that fits in really well with the proposed changes to xs-config, if
>> your kickstart file doesn't turn off firstboot-xs, run it. The current
>> install is more or less controlled by the xs-config rpm and the
>> kickstart file, with the rpm providing a drop-in networking layout.
>> We're going to split the configuration of the XS's services and
>> networking into different packages, allowing us better use the stock OS
>> configuration tools such as firstboot. That should allow us to present a
>> more friendly installer.
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-config/
>>
>> The tools used to spin up the installer are found at:
>> http://dev.laptop.org/git/projects/xs-livecd/
>>
>> My sandbox is at(ATM):
>> http://24.79.179.72/pub/
>>
>> Jerry
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