Hi all server folks, There will be a mini demo at 1500 UTC on #schoolserver tomorrow showcasing some of the stuff we've been working on for DXS. It's still very early beta. This is in sync with proposing these features for XSCE-0.5. Some of the things in the short demo would be:
* Ansible playbooks * Ajenti - GUI | Wondershaper - Bandwidth throttling * Github workflow for DXS * Transparent Client Authentication - How does Moodle magically log clients in, and how may it be scaled to other services * Munin A public DXS instance running on a XO-4 is temporarily setup at: http://schoolserver.alabamaxo.org Note: Please have an XO laptop with you, if you want to test out collaboration, and registration to the schoolserver. Cheers, Anish On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:34 PM, David Farning <dfarn...@activitycentral.com>wrote: > Thanks anish, > > This reduces my freakout level by an order of magnitude :) At time my > mental model fails me. I think of DXS as downstream to XSCE. I think > of AC as doing less frequent releases than XSCE with the goal of > increased stability. This release was inverted as DXS led the painful > shift to ansible. > > If you are into such things. The affect of a downstream getting ahead > of an upstream is remarkably similar to 'interest rate inversions.' > http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/06/invertedyieldcurve.asp > . Normal planning starts to go out the window. :) > > I would like to encourage Tim, George, and Jerry to play with and > explore and test the code at https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs . > We have three general approaches for upstreaming thing code: > > 1. Do a complete rebase to the DXS code when the XSCE 0.5 window open. > While riskiest it minimizes the amount of duplicated effort. > 2. Create a stepwise plan. While possible, is quite hard due to > circular dependencies. :( > 3. Keep the code separate. > > A couple of considerations: > 1. Is it worth learning Ansible? While pretty easy to learn, read, and > code, Ansible is yet another language to learn. > 2. How does this affect 0.5 planning? How will the XSCE community > determine priorities and goals for the release. > > Have fun and thanks for everything :) > > On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Anish Mangal <an...@activitycentral.com> > wrote: > > Hi George, Jerry, Tim, et. al. > > > > Please have a look at the DXS github repository. We have been able to use > > ansible playbooks to install a School Server. One can try setting it up > > using the instructions in the INSTALL.rst file. We also added Ajenti as > an > > admin GUI, there are separate instructions for that. Also included is > Munin > > (i think on an experimental basis). Some things which are present in the > > XSCE-0.4 are missing in our repo, like Pathagar, or IIAB, or CUPS. > > > > Mostly, we wanted to be much more public with the code, and the > development > > process, as we move beyond the XSCE-0.4 release. Ideally, I want to > merge a > > majority (if not all) of this code with the upstream, so we all have a > > common base. Within AC (Santi, Miguel, Ajay, Myself) we will participate > > more openly with the XSCE project going forward. Anna already does a lot > of > > work within the XSCE community :-) > > > > https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs > > > > Best, > > Anish > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Server-devel mailing list > > Server-devel@lists.laptop.org > > http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel > > > > > > -- > David Farning > Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com >
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