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[Stefan Winter <address@concealed>]

Hello,

> First:
> nice new website, but some paddings/margins are wrong in german..

First, thanks for testing! Much appreciated!

Yes, I've seen those, too. We'll look into it in the coming weeks.
German is notoriously longer than the English equivalent expression and
always puts layouts to the test.

> Second:
> The installer for Linux switched to python (? not the best idea, adds
> dependencies and blocks out systems with python below 3)

Well, it used to be a bash wrapper around a python script; the wrapper
decided if python2 or 3 should be used, and complained if it didn't find
Python.

The utility of this bash entry door was only useful as long as python3
was not "universally" available.

Over time, we had the impression that many if not all distributions do
ship Python by default and offer both python2 and python3. The script
itself is compatible with python2 and python3, so the value-add of the
bash around it is minimal.

> and does not
> work (out of the box):
> 
> ./eduroam-linux.py: Line 5: Syntaxerror on unexpected word `('
> ./eduroam-linux.py: Line 5: `def missing_dbus():'

I get the same result on my openSUSE Leap 15.0 - if I call the script
directly from bash. My suspicion is that this executes the script with
bash, which doesn't know about Python syntax naturally.

If I execute the script with

python2 ... filename ...
python3 ... filename ...
python ... filename ...
then ALL of these work (the latter defaults to python2 on my system).

So I guess this is happening on a distribution which doesn't
automagically figure out that a script ending on .py should be executed
with Python.

I wonder how common that is. Could you try if this works for you, too,
and let me know the distribution you use?

Greetings,

Stefan Winter

> 
> 
> Am Montag, den 27.08.2018, 10:01 +0200 schrieb Stefan Winter:
>> Hello,
>>
>> we are happy to release a first beta version of the CAT 2.0 codebase.
>>
>> Since the codebase is really very mature, we now encourage everybody
>> to
>> test installer generation. We have ported the production database
>> content to that new version, so you can use it as if it were the real
>> thing.
>>
>> To test the new version, please log into
>> https://cat-test.eduroam.org/beta/
>>
>> As usual with test versions, any change you make on that version will
>> be
>> lost in the future when we move the actual production version. So
>> feel
>> free to try out new settings and things to your liking in this
>> parallel
>> world. You may also want to take screenshots etc. for your local
>> support
>> pages as the default skin is a lot different from before.
>>
>> Please note that we are close before putting 2.0 into actual
>> production.
>> The release is named "beta" only because of features for the new
>> deployment mode "eduroam Managed IdP" - which is not what will be on
>> cat.eduroam.org later; that one has its own release date and will be
>> on
>> a different set of VMs. The subset of code that goes to
>> cat.eduroam.org
>> is so stable that any subsequent release - say, beta2 - could be the
>> one
>> we push into production.
>>
>> So the time to test this in a pre-production stage is NOW :-)
>>
>> The new release also marks a significant change in deployment: the
>> previously separated instances of CAT in Germany (cat.eduroam.de) and
>> CAT world-wide (cat.eduroam.org) will be merged into one single
>> deployment on cat.eduroam.org. The beta1 version already provides
>> installers for all eduroam countries, including Germany.
>>
>> The release is already tagged on GitHub ("v2.0.0-beta1") and a new
>> branch "release_2_0" has been created. The tarball is a GitHub
>> "release".
>>
>> You can find the Changelog at
>> https://github.com/GEANT/CAT/blob/release_2_0/Changes.md (this URL is
>> also linked in the footer of the deployment; which was a feature
>> request
>> for the new version).
>>
>> We ship this version in 10 languages; four of which are 100%
>> complete:
>>
>> 'Български', 'Català', 'Čeština', 'Deutsch', 'English(GB)',
>> 'Español',
>> 'Hrvatski', 'Italiano', 'Polski', 'Srpski', 'Suomi', 'Português'
>>
>> If you see a string which should be translated to your local language
>> but is not, please switch to one of the complete translations
>> (German,
>> English, Polish, Bulgarian). If the string is translated there, all
>> is
>> fine (translation pending). If not, please report the string in
>> question
>> as "misses a translation tag".
>>
>> The schedule for the subsequent release is: testing and catch missing
>> translations until 09 Sep (two work weeks from now); fix remaining
>> bugs
>> and update translations until 30 Sept); in case of no showstoppers
>> release beta2 and put into production on 01 Oct (pending approval by
>> GEANT Operations).
>>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> Stefan Winter
>>


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