[Server-devel] What's cooking in the XS pot this week (2008-10--01)

[Bryan Berry]

Greg, 

We will be setting up two labs here in Nepal, one in the next couple
weeks and likely one in the first week of November at Nepal's Dept of
Education. Depending on our experiences in those labs, we want to roll
out a new version of the XS in November to our two pilot schools and
possibly a new pilot school.

This mirrors our priorities 
> A stable and scalable eJabber is critical as are basic XS features like:
> - Caching
> - Filtering (is DanGuardian built in and shipped with the XS ?)
> - NAT

w/ two exceptions. We still find it a bear to install the XS from
scratch. That could be our fault but it needs to be easier to set up
ejabberd properly. It also needs to be easier to get dansguardian up and
running. As far as I can tell dansguardian is not pre-installed on the
XS in XS 0.4.  

Our volunteer Tony Anderson has been working on this and has a better
understanding of the problems we are having.

I strongly agree that, while Moodle is important, a lot of work needs to
be done on ejabberd and dansguardian.

> Message: 1
> Date: Wed, 01 Oct 2008 12:42:19 -0400
> From: Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: [Server-devel] What's cooking in the XS pot this week
> 	(2008-10--01)
> To: Martin Langhoff <martin.langhoff at gmail.com>
> Cc: XS Devel <server-devel at lists.laptop.org>
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> 
> Hi Martin,
> 
> Thanks for the update!
> 
> Its great to see all the items planned for or in 0.5:
> http://dev.laptop.org/query?status=assigned&status=closed&status=new&status=reopened&order=priority&col=id&col=summary&col=status&col=type&col=priority&col=component&milestone=xs-0.5
> 
> 
> On your question of who is waiting for XS 0.5, I know of at least two 
> deployments that are building labs and testing configurations with XS 
> software:
> 
> Paraguay
> Birmingham
> 
> Both will need a stable XS that they can use ASAP. Whether they will go 
> with XS 0.5 or not depends on what 0.5 includes, when 0.6 will be 
> available and what it includes.
> 
> AFAIK Moodle is not a must have item for either deployment.
> 
> A stable and scalable eJabber is critical as are basic XS features like:
> - Caching
> - Filtering (is DanGuardian built in and shipped with the XS ?)
> - NAT
> 
> Birmingham may start using XOs and an XS in schools in mid-Novemeber. 
> Paraguay will probably start later but we should lock down their version 
> ASAP as they want lead time to really flush out all issue in the lab.
> 
> They may both use the backup and restore feature if they have enough 
> disk on the server (of course they will use it whether they like it or 
> not as you can't turn it off :-).
> 
> I think there other deployments that will want to use a school server 
> before the end of 2008. Two other features which may tip the balance for 
> deployments are upgrade of XO images and activities via school server 
> cache (Peru).
> 
> Spending a little more time to make sure that XS 0.5 is very stable and 
> well documented is a good idea. However, we should start to be more 
> precise about the features and dates for each release we plan to deliver 
> before the end of CY 08.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Greg S
>