====== Impilo construction cycle ======

Each year, there are two dates in my calendar that can't be ignored, which I use as flags in my process to build Impilo:

  * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swithun|St-Swithin day]], July 15th, which also correspond to the [[http://emboss.sourceforge.net/download/#Stable/|yearly major update of the EMBOSS suite]];
  * 15 September, which more or less the beginning of my Fall trimester teaching cycle at the [[http://www.umontreal.ca|Université de Montréal]], where I teach [[http://www.progcours.umontreal.ca/cours/index_fiche_cours/BCM6010.html|applied bioinformatics]].

These two dates allow me to create a building cycle which has the following steps:

  * Around May 1st, I create a new virtual machine using the latest Ubuntu LTS version. On this machine, I will install and test the desktop environment and non-bioinformatics applications.
  * On June 1st, more or less, I gather all the applications that are to be installed in the next [[bin_app_select|distribution]]. 
  * On July 15th, I download the latest EMBOSS suite and I start on building and installing the applications as well as updating the documentation related to the installation process.
  * Around August 15th, I distribute the next version to my fellow trainers to detect and squash the inevitable bugs.
  * After finishing the bug hunt, I create a new VirtualBox appliance and I build a LiveCD using[[http://www.geekconnection.org/remastersys/|remastersys]], all ready for September 15th.


 --- //[[sylvain.foisy@diploide.net|Sylvain Foisy]] 2010/06/24 21:10//