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Hi All

Thank John for a topic like this, It is good for us to not wait too
much before to start again the engine of development.

A huge efforts was done, this year and the previous, some of us have
decided to step down for personal and different reasons.  But I want
to thank everyone for the work involved here. Like you have said John,
we are all volunteers and we bring the skill, the time, the envy that
the life provides us, nothing more, nothing less.

Indeed we have to write and update a 'new roadmap' for the SME Server,
I will try to have a look on this, but even if anything start by an
idea, we need coders or people really involved for doing it. You could
easily understand it is not because you need it for your job, That we
will do it for your beautiful eyes. Please come here and become
volunteers :)

However in the meanwhile we have a huge work to migrate the buildsys
to our new cluster, and I'm not the more qualified to talk of this,
but I imagine the amount of things to do.

Here some draft ideas, of course you can disagree, it is not a drama.

- -Find New people In bugzilla

Quite sure that we will find a job for you, even if you know nothing.

- -Horde

I would see SME Server with your contrib to become a core part of sme.
We started with horde, for what I tested, it is useful, thanks for
your works.

- -Samba4

For the next release we will have to use it. It is really not my
circle of competencies, other may answer better than me, mainly if we
want to have an Active directory compatibility. I have the feeling
that it is wanted, asked, but no works really started. Please go If
you want this.

- -DNS name from dhcpd server

I have continued the work of some developers, the purpose is to give a
real dns name instead of dummy name pc-001, pc-002 etc.

see http://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=2388

I have it in use in a college, about 250 computers, work fine. You
have a contribs for sme8 to test it. Of course we could probably
enhance it.


- -Bugs verified not released

some verified bugs are pending a release, that could be good to see
and discuss why and what we wait

http://wiki.contribs.org/Verified_bugs


- -Centos7/SME10

I'm not kidding, huge challenge, at minimum all services must be
rewritten for using systemd.

I Speak only for me, but maybe that could be a good opportunity to
merge neth server and sme server. The fork was a consequence for needs
of their customers, I don't think it was really wanted.

At minimum to share the core between the two distros   if we don't
want their server-manager (written actually in php but that could change).
For what I know, their manager is not a part of their core package,
you can remove it if needed.


- -New enhanced backup from Ian

Is this a bug report which track your work Ian ?


Quite sure that you can add more things to this list, you can add some
informations, or comments.

You are welcome to disagree !


Le 20/09/2014 01:36, I Wells a écrit :
> Although I have had to step down due to change of employment I will
> comment on John's excellent post - not that I have any authority
> any longer. I had earlier tried to update
> http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_wishlist to select from the
> wishlist what could be achievable in 9.1 (based on COS6.6) and also
> 10 Someone needs to take ownership of the development roadmap and
> update this page.
> 
> I personally believe that 9.1 should have an upgraded Horde. My
> backup improvements are not mandatory and I had not finalised it. 
> What is implied but not written is that someone needs to update
> anaconda. Hopefully all the patches apply cleanly, but some may
> need updating.
> 
> 
> SME Server 9.1
> 
> SME Server 9.1 is likely to be based on CentOS 6.6 maybe during
> summer 2014.
> 
> Webmail Webmail is Core For SME Server 9.1 Horde 5.x is the default
> for core. See Bug 6653
> 
> Partial Samba 4 support What can be achieved in the next 3 months? 
> See See Bug 8075
> 
> Minor improvements to Backup - Restore (Ian) My improvements to
> Backup Restore did not make the 9.0 development freeze.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From:
> [email protected] 
> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of John
> Crisp Sent: Friday, September 19, 2014 10:33 AM To:
> [email protected] Subject: Re: [discussion] Where do we
> go from here?
> 
> Hi John !
> 
> Pleased to see you are involved and interested - we need people
> like you !
> 
> On 19/09/14 16:40, John H. Bennett III wrote:
>> 
>> Hello all,
>> 
>> So where do we go from here?  Just like in the past, after a
>> major release, most everything seems to stop until someone gets a
>> whim and tries to rally us again.
>> 
>> IMHO, we need to put together a roadmap showing where we are
>> going. Most of the SMB distros that we compete against have
>> stated roadmaps, but I don't believe we have ever had one.  I
>> stand corrected, we did have something published for 9.0, 
>> http://wiki.contribs.org/SME9.0_Roadmap, and 9.0 and beyond here,
>>  http://wiki.contribs.org/SME_Server_wishlist.  Is that still
>> valid?
>> 
>> There are many people here with varied skill sets, that we should
>> be able to agree on a roadmap, or at least spend some time
>> talking about various items we as a community would like to see
>> added, then assess those options.    Would it then be up to the
>> board to publish the official roadmap that we all work towards?
>> 
> 
> Everything is a bit up in the air with the move etc right now.
> However that basic plan still stands, and we really need to start
> working on it.
> 
> Please feel free to comment on it, add to it, refine it. I hope
> that once we have things settled down we can start to pay it our
> full attention
> 
>> 
>> Now I didn't type this up to be flamed, ridiculed, or shamed.
>> I'm like most of you out there, I'm a volunteer, that enjoys
>> devoting some time to this distro.  I don't sell or make any
>> money off this distro, but I would like to see it continue, as it
>> provides, IMO, an easy way to learn Linux, the server aspect is
>> really easy to learn how to use, offers a lot, and does a lot.
>> 
> 
> You won't get flamed by any of us. Your views are valid. You have
> done a lot of work with SME and I really hope that you will
> continue to do so - we need more active participants in the
> process.
> 
>> I simply wanted to spark some discussion as to what we want to
>> do, where do we go, and how do we get there.
>> 
> 
> You are doing he right thing, and please keep doing it. Working on
> the roadmap is vitally important - we need some plans and
> direction. It may not happen in 5 minutes but it gives us some
> goals.
> 
> B. Rgds John
> 
> 
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