The Packaging Team involves making Tiki easily deployable on various platforms and 1-click installers.

Release responsibilities

1. Run Release scripts for packaging all releases (Alpha/Beta/RCs/Official)
2. Make sure everything is OK with Packages
3. Submit to and keep up to date each of the 1-click installers and Distro
4. Maintain Installation guides

Urgent

• Coordinate with Bluehost / SimpleScripts
  • Tax info from Finance Team
  • Versions are outdated: https://www.simplescripts.com/script_details/install:TikiWikiCmsGroupware#versions (+ LTS discussion)
  • But v3 is different

Tasks

• Coordinate with Bitnami (Greg Martin)
• Coordinate with Cloudways (Greg Martin)
• ISPConfig now offers "APS package installer", but APS is still offering Tiki 3.x
• Look into http://www.standingcloud.com/search/node/tiki
• Try to get on http://bitnami.com/stack/xampp
• Investigate docker.io

Ongoing

• Coordinate with 1-click installers (in collaboration with Partnerships
• Microsoft Web Platform installer WebPI coordination and package updates (Greg Martin)
  • Relations with Microsoft (Pascal St-Jean of Partnerships)
• Keeping things tidy at https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/
  • Move old stuff to the Old_Stuff folder: https://sourceforge.net/projects/tikiwiki/files/
• Make Tiki the best possible platform for a hosting company
• Coordinate with Distros

Projects

• Decide what do to with EC2
• Negotiate with hosting companies for hosting and affiliate agreements (Marc), along with Partnerships
• Testing Tiki installations on major Shared Hosting companies (Marc)
• Remove stuff from the package
  • doc/stable.version
  • unstable.version
  • Replace changelog.txt with a link to tiki.org/Changelog, which itself redirects to SourceForge's SVN view
• Improve the release process
• Improve Tiki Server Check
• Improve Tiki Permission Check
• Improve the installer
• Reduce disk space

Todo

• Tiki is not working on WebPI 3.0
• Related to Testing Tiki installations on major Shared Hosting companies, investigate for a way to set permissions properly from the .zip Ex.: on http://bluehost.tiki.org/92b1/, there was an error 500 until sh setup.sh was run
• Review USB Tiki
  • Make doc more complete
  • How about a script to automate?

Related

• When to release - think popcorn

Background info

• http://producingoss.com/en/packaging.html
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_package_(installation)
• http://redmonk.com/dberkholz/2012/07/23/what-is-packaging-its-all-about-the-barrier-to-entry/
• The Software Package Data Exchange® (SPDX®) specification is a standard format for communicating the components, licenses and copyrights associated with a software package.
• https://hub.docker.com/r/montefuscolo/tiki-wiki/

Page Aliases

Packaging Team