Linux Packaging project

The Linux Packaging project is a project to improve GNU/Linux integration of Kiwix.

Properties

Legal name of organization or individual requesting this grant: Emmanuel Engelhart
Project contact name: Emmanuel Engelhart
Project contact username or email: Kelson
Project contact title (position): Project manager
Project leader name: Emmanuel Engelhart
Project leader username or email: Kelson
Project leader title (position), if any: Project manager
Full project name: Kiwix Linux Package Project
Provisional target start date: 01-01-2013
Provisional completion date: 01-05-2013

Goals

Kiwix is a software which works and although we still try to improve it, its big challenge is currently to be known by people. That why we need to bring Kiwix to people and organization as near as possible. This is the main purpose of this project, here are the details:

Package for Ubuntu + official repository
Package for Fedora + official repository
Package for OpenSuse + official repository
Package for Archlinux + official repository
Package for FreeBSD + official repository
Package for openWRT and DDWRT

Activities

This project would be split in 3 work-packages:

1 - Compilation (3000 CHF)

Integrate Mozilla source code to Kiwix source code
Compile Kiwix against Mozilla source code (avoid using Xulrunner and Xulrunner SDK)
Check that everything compile and run fine like that for what we already release and support (Sugar, WIN, OSX, static&dynaimc + debian package)
Integrate the work in the compilation farm
Everything should work as good like before

2 - Package creation (2500 CHF)

Create the packages for the recent version of the listed GNU/Linux distributions
Create the packages with the compile farm
Check that everything works fine

3 - Package integration in official distribution repositories (2500 CHF)

Take contact with packagers, find an official packager or do it yourself
Do the necessary to integrate Kiwix to the distribution, at least in the testing version (experimental/testing for Debian)
Post-project, do the necessary that everything run fine and that Kiwix finaly land to the current release repository

4 - [Open/DD WRT] Integration (2000 CHF)

Create the packages (one click install using the router WEB UI) for those two WRT distributions
Muss work with the most common model using this distributions (mips architecture?)
Package must have an easy interface to chose/change the content to spread, configure the interface (local network/internet)) and other mandatory things
Take care that this package will be integrated in official catalogs of thus distributions

Wins

Fully deployment of Kiwix in the most known and used GNU/Linux distributions
Remove the Xulrunner dependency which is an almost unmaintained piece of software
Improve the global quality of Kiwix compilation scripts
Create the packages to use kiwix-serve for the time with routers (widely used and really cheap)

Resources

680 hours of professional development
40 hours of volunteer time for the project management
4 months of time
10.000 CHF

People

This project would be lead by Kelson and executed by the company Yeleman which has a long experience with Kiwix codebase.