Re: Education projects in the openSUSE Buildservice

Hi Thorsten

Sorry for the late reply - I was on vacation (and had sworn not to use 
any computer in this time ;-)


On Samstag 08 November 2008 23:32:06 Thorsten Wagner wrote:
> First: my Name is Thorsten and I'm a trainee teacher in a school in
> germany. I'm currently trying to migrate some of our PCs to openSUSE
> - which works very well! Thanks to all!

Welcome! Can you post some more technical details about your school?
How many Clients, Servers, prefered Applications, etc.?


> While searching for additional apps which are not part of the
> openSUSE-Education Add on DVD, I found a lot of "Education" projects
> in the openSUSE Build Service and now I'm a bit confused about the
> state of these different projects.

Yes, there are currently a lot of "Education" projects/packages which 
are not really part of the "real" openSUSE-Education. I'll contact the 
other authors and ask if they won't work together with us.


> 2) Education:deskop
> 3) Education:server:Factory

As Andrea already said: these two repositores are outdated (and 
hopefully deleted soon).


> 4) Education:server:OSS
> Announced as "Packages for the current stable Open School Server." -
> What is the "Open School Server"? Is this the Server from Extis?

Yes. (Note: the Open School Server is a SLES9 based server for schools.) 
Some users ask for additional packages - and I have created this 
repository for them as most of the packages need some patches to 
integrate well into the admin-frontend of the OSS.


> 5) isv:hp:education

Something for Lowry, our Partner Technology Manager, I think. 


> 6) home:*

As Andrea already said: Really "hot" repos: those are development repos 
and should not used until you have the "go" from the original 
maintainer of the project/package.

With kind regards,
Lars