Hi all, In fact, the project started three weeks ago but for now some of its core purposes became more clear, ie, ready for announcing.
Some of major ideas: * Common project within Sugar Labs to keep core development process in one place; * It is not about configuring and supporting the whole server at school from scratch but about having a set of tough, local, doing its job well modules that might be included/excluded in downstream solutions; * Friendly support of customization on purpose in downstream products: * Modularizing, when components might be included on purpose to fulfill local needs, * Not patching in downstream but supplementing the upstream, e.g., install upstream packages and just add new packages with local customization or overrides (but not overriding installed files to let PMS work smooth) of upstream, * Provide useful API for components; * Be a GNU/Linux distribution agnostic, different deployment might decide to use different GNU/Linux distributions. * It is not only about supporting XO laptops but about any Sugar based environments; * Up to 1000 students per server. Why not improving existed OLPC XS: * its functionality is scattered among several projects and many of shell and python scripts * some of architectural decisions make XS not localized app on the server, e.g., using incron, external httpd (for not too high load), creating local users for handling backups * Sugar Server is not about configuring servers from scratch, but about having smart and local tools that might be used in downstream on purpose, eg, moodle and puppet are not a core of Sugar Server More info about Sugar Server architectural ideas might be find here: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Server/Architecture The home page is: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Server Current plans are: http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Server/1/Roadmap http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Server/1/Todo http://wiki.sugarlabs.org/go/The_Server/1/Components Source on git.sugarlabs.org: http://git.sugarlabs.org/server If you share the same vision on core purposes behind Sugar Server, you are welcome! -- Aleksey _______________________________________________ Server-devel mailing list server-de...@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/server-devel