Tuesday 15:00, Madrid Preface The municipality of Munich runs a Debian-based free desktop system on 18.000 machines, typically called »LiMux«. When maintaining such a big amount of installations in such a heterogeneous environment, unforeseen demands come to surface. This talk gives a typical example. Questions may cover other LiMux-related topics, too.
Abstract Office applications, particularly spreadsheets, are used pervasively to model and support business processes. This is promoted further by extensions and macros: office applications usually provide means to extend them programmatic. While this is fine at first, there are life cycle nightmares lurking ahead: self-baked macros provide hardly what you expect to maintain an economic life cycle, and there is a tendency to provide functionality for which office applications are not the platform of choice. When maintaining an office suite, new releases inevitably exhibit incompatibilities and deficiencies in pre-existing customer macros, and these need to be addressed. There are two radical answers: a) leave the business department with their own crap, risking that they will not accept your office service in the long run; b) take over maintenance of macros yourself. An economic strategy acts somewhere in between: try hard to minimize the number of macros in production, but maintain those actively for which no substitute is available. The talk gives an overview how the LiMux project in Munich had coped with that situation, and which tools we have developed to support maintenance. About the presenter Florian Haftmann works as IT system developer at the municipality administration of Munich (Bavaria / Germany) since 2011. On his journey through the vast fields of Open Source Systems in the city, Office macros once have stuck to his shoes and have continued to accompany him until today. -- PGP available: http://home.informatik.tu-muenchen.de/haftmann/pgp/florian_haftmann_at_informatik_tu_muenchen_de _______________________________________________ Debconf-discuss mailing list Debconf-discuss@lists.debconf.org http://lists.debconf.org/mailman/listinfo/debconf-discuss
