[Server-devel] [XSCE] [ANNOUNCE] Release 5.0 of XSCE

[Sameer Verma]

On Wed, Jan 22, 2014 at 6:30 PM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
> This is a slightly belated announcement of the release of the XSCE School
> Server version 5.0.  The full release notes are included below.  Those who
> have been following the project will notice the order of magnitude jump in
> release numbers, e.g. 0.5 has become 5.0.  This has been done to  avoid
> confusion between the XS and XSCE projects, especially as we approach the
> next release.
>
> XSCE has been tested on a variety of  OLPC XO laptops and on 64 bit servers
> and VMs and has been installed on RaspberryPi, Trimslice, and experimentally
> on the Cubox.
>
> To get started (assuming you have git setup) please follow the instructions
> at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.rst
>
> The 5.0 release can be cloned by
>
> git clone https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.git --branch 5.0 --depth 1
>
> or if you want the entire repository:
>
> git clone https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.git
> git checkout 5.0
>
> The release notes that follow are at
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/blob/master/ReleaseNotes5.0.rst
>
> RELEASE NOTES
>
> The focus of release 5.0 is making it easier for contributors to
> participate. This has been accomplished in three ways:
>
> 1) Better Documentation
>
> The documentation concerning installation, configuration, and usage has been
> greatly expanded and clarified. This includes information on alternative
> networking configurations and urls and ports to exercise the various
> services included. There are also an increased number of troubleshooting
> tips.
> The documentation is located at
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/tree/master/docs.
>
> 2) Relocation of Source to Github
>
> While the source code for the School Server has always been public, moving
> XSCE to github encourages a workflow that is becoming standard in the open
> source software industry wherein a git repository is cloned and contributors
> work on their own branches and then create pull requests which allow code to
> be rolled up to the master copy. Github facilitates this work flow and the
> School Server community has adopted it.
> The XSCE project is located at https://github.com/XSCE/xsce.
>
> 3) Use of Ansible for Installation
>
> The XSCE project has been restructured around ansible playbooks. This has a
> number of benefits. First, it allows independent developers to work on their
> individual contributions to the project (mostly) without tripping over other
> developers. To further this aim an aggregate playbook 'addons' has been
> created as a home for installing the playbooks of these individuals.
> Secondly, the effort to perform a testing cycle is greatly reduced. Because
> ansible installs from a git clone it is not necessary to create a new rpm
> and install it in its entirety. A simple git pull gets the latest version
> for testing and this version can be ones own branch or the master. Ansible
> tags have been used widely throughout the playbooks so that it is now much
> easier to test a subset of functionality rather than having to test the
> entire install on each iteration.
> Ansible is documented at http://www.ansibleworks.com/.
> In addition to making it easier for a broader range of contributors, XSCE
> 5.0 includes the following:
>
> Two Flavors
>
> There are gateway and non-gateway ('appliance') flavors of XSCE. The
> installation attempts to determine the mode in which the server will operate
> based on attached network devices.
>
> Platforms
>
> XSCE has been tested on XO 1.5, 1.75, and 4 as well as on i386 and x64.
>
> RPM Based Install
>
> An RPM can be produced from the ansible playbooks using rpmbuild -bb
> xsce-server.spec. This RPM can then be installed using yum.
>
> Not included in this Release
>
> This release does not address the recent announcement that Fedora Core 18 is
> end of life. Experiments with Fedora Core 20 are promising and support is
> expected in a future release.
>

How well does this translate to CentOS 6.x for x86 and x64 machines?

Sameer

> Testing
>
> To get started please install git and then issue:
> git clone git at github.com:XSCE/xsce.git
> cd xsce
> git checkout 5.0
> Please help test this and file bugs at
> https://github.com/XSCE/xsce/issues?state=open
>
>
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