I have kringed at all this forking talk, whining about this feature or that feature, but I have to admit I like this approach. This reminds me more of the StarOffice/OpenOffice way of doing things. That relationship seems to be fruitful for all. This could have pitfalls, but would solve alot of this strife, as well as give a more experimental outlet for all the pent up energy.
Good idea Darrell! JP ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darrell May" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "e-smith-devinfo" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2002 3:17 PM Subject: [e-smith-devinfo] development roadmap > > I want to take a moment to thank Dan for doing an excellent job on moving > SME forward with PHP and IMP upgrades. In my book, this is exactly what is > needed. > > To continue this fine effort I thought we, the community, should produce > our own development roadmap and issue our own development iso. Lets hear > everyone's thoughts on where we want to take SME server. > > DEVELOPMENT ROADMAP IDEAS: > > Stage 1: Get SME _current_ with core apps and devinfo contribs and release > a development iso. > > IMP > PHP > SAMBA > CONTRIBS - make a list of contribs we want included and installed by > default in our development iso. I think this area has been overlooked. > There are so many fine contribs and they are not making it into the standard > SME release. We need to get these part of the iso. > > It would be preferable if Mitel gave us space to host our development iso > and src rpms. Maybe they will comment on if this is feasable at their end. > > Stage 2: Add journaling filesystem to our development iso. > > ReiserFS - could be added to current 2.2.19 kernel. I do not understand > why are we not at least considering this? Would this not keep everyone who > wants to stay with the 2.2.x kernel and ipchains happy yet add a journaling > file system? The only negative I can see is ext2 > ReiserFS upgrade path > may not be feasible and we would need to do a fresh install with restore. > > EXT3 - breaks software RAID1 under 2.2.x kernel so must be implemented on > 2.4.x kernel > > Stage 3: Kernel 2.4.x development iso > EXT3 > IPTABLES > all the other current bells and whistles > > Regards, > > -- > Darrell May > DMC Netsourced.com > http://netsourced.com > http://myEZserver.com > > > -- > Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues > Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org > > > -- Please report bugs to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] (only) to discuss security issues Support for registered customers and partners to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives by mail and http://www.mail-archive.com/devinfo%40lists.e-smith.org
