[Server-devel] Planning for XS-0.6

[Jerry Vonau]

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 17, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Martin Langhoff
> <martin.langhoff at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Of course,
>> if you can help a bit and you have other priorities, you can make your
>> feature happen in time for 0.6 too (and I'll try my darndest to help!)
> 
> I've been asked in private for relatively easy things to tackle that
> are not in the critical path -- I've posted a few entries in track and
> tagged them "grabme". You know what to do with them :-)
> 
> Right now the listing is:
> 
> #9001  	 Experiment to understand rpm/yum resiliency to sudden loss of power
> 
> The core mission is to understand how good rpm and yum are at
> recovering after a bad power loss (on our default fs, in this case
> ext3).
> 
> The basic idea is to break yum/rpm install process by yanking the
> power away from the machine at different points of the installation,
> and seeing how the overall process recovers. And harassing or
> contratulating Seth and the rpm folks with what we learn :-)
>

My hard disks hate you already... ;-)

> One idea: Perhaps some of it can be automated with qemu and a script
> that calls yum/rpm via ssh. Qemu has slow IO so you can get more
> granularity...
> 
>   --
> 
> #9002 	Get the current XS to boot on XO.
> 
> Backport whatever magic Jeremy Katz and friends havee cooked to boot a
> vanilla F10 on the XO, and apply it to F9, so we can use it for the
> School Server ;-)
> 
> Ideally it can be a setup that boots off a plain SD card ext3
> formatted, with swap, avoiding squashfs, and uses an external USB HD
> for /library which is the main storage location.
> 
>  --
I'd need an XO for that, was I suppose to receive one? I received 2 AA 
but that was it.


> 
> #9003 	Backup XS to USB HD 	
> 
> With the usbmount tools in place, we can now add a simple script that
> can look for a signed file on a USB HD when it's plugged in, and
> backup the whole system.
> 
> You can look at the scripts that hook into usbmount in the xs-rsync
> and the xs-activation packages.
> 
>  --
> 
Think I can help with that, has a dual purpose for me, for a local yum 
upgrade, if I can figure it out.


> #9004 	Sort out xs-logos 	
> 
> We have created xs-logos but revisor and anaconda have conspired to
> ignore it. This needs to be resolved -- as things stand, we are
> infringing on the Fedora Trademark.
> 
Sounds like a .spec file issue, where is the git repo?

> A secondary issue would be to get decent imagery to replace the
> default unbranded imagery the package.
> 
>  --
> 
> The live query is:
> https://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=new&status=reopened&group=milestone&component=school+server&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&keywords=~grabme&row=description
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m
Jerry