Hi Anish, I look forward to playing with the XSCE installed via Ansible.
Will there be an install procedure, and cookbook, to try it out? George On Wed, Aug 28, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Anish Mangal <an...@activitycentral.com>wrote: > 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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