Well, I was sort of hoping: ---- * We could start to have discussions and work around some/all of the topics as a community. Everyone here has way more expertise than me in many (if not all) of the topics I listed. We can build a much better server if we all can use our expertise in the relevant part of the server. This transcends the pure software-development aspect of XSCE.
---- * As the 0.4 version of the XSCE is nearing release, it's a good time to start thinking about additions/changes for 0.5. One of the consistent efforts (and demands) has been to make the server code more manageable, and by extension, modular and scalable. * 0.2.1 was a drop-in replacement of the XS-0.6/7 * 0.3 involved a major reorganization to make the services more modular * 0.4 built upon that, by providing all the code in the same modular structure Within Activity Central, a team of developers (Santi, Miguel, Ajay, Anna) have been working on converting services available on the XSCE into ansible playbooks. The playbooks are written in a syntax which is *very easy to understand*, and the same playbook can be run on different platforms to produce the same effect. The playbooks can provide variables which may be integrated easily with other administration web-services (for example ajenti<http://ajenti.org/> ). I hope to share the code for the playbooks very soon, so anyone can have a look at and try them. We have been able to get a fully functional server up just by playbooks and reusing/restructuring the available XSCE (xs-config) code. As someone leading the Dextrose Server initiative, I would push for the inclusion of these playbooks in XSCE-0.5. There is long term value in learning a bit of ansible and being able to work at a higher abstraction level. Best, Anish On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 6:48 PM, Tim Moody <t...@timmoody.com> wrote: > Thanks for making this public. What do you see as the next step? > > > >From: Anish Mangal > >Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2013 6:16 PM > >To: xsce-de...@googlegroups.com ; server-devel ; Tim Moody > >Subject: Re: [XSCE] A couple of thoughts about moving forward. > > > >Hi Tim, et. al., > > > >Since it was requested that I share my conversations with various > deployments over the summer yielded in form of potential requirements for > the school server, I created this wiki page: > > > >https://sugardextrose.org/projects/xsce/wiki/Primary_considerations > > > > > >There's obviously more data available, but what you see is a filtered > version of guidelines I think we should keep in mind while developing a > school server. > > > >Do the points in there (summarized below) make sense? I intentionally > created this page on the sugardextrose.org wiki. If it has greater > acceptance community-wide, I'd be happy to move it to the main XSCE wiki. > > > >* Statistics > >* Content > >* Internet traffic shaping > >* Administration > >* Networking > >* Classroom and School management > >* Total Cost of Ownership > >* Power > >* Sneakernet -> LAN -> Internet > >* i18n > > > >Best, > >Anish > > > > > > -- > Sig inserted by AutoHotkey ver. 1.1.11.01 (signature - first line) > WLMail QuoteFix -> http://www.dusko-lolic.from.hr/ (signature - second > line) >
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