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

[Greg Smith]

Hi Martin,

A little more info. Birmingham just updated to XS 0.4. I think its in 
their lab right now but my impression is they can put it in production 
in a school at any time.

The only key feature that I am aware of for them is the scalable eJabber 
server. If that's newer, tested and more scalable they may take 0.5 just 
for that.

No need to include the DansGuardian, yet. Right now the deployments seem 
to take the XS, customize it and add their own filtering tool. I think a 
default, built-in filtering solution would be nice but not critical 
quite yet.

We need to reach out to Paraguay and see if they will use the default XS 
or if they have any customizations or critical requirements. I'll try to 
do that ASAP.

I think the main strategy for us is to have an answer to the following 
at any time:

1 - What version should I deploy if I need to do something today and 
what features does it have?

2 - When will the next version be available and what new features does 
it offer?

I think we're close to a crisp answer on those but it would really help 
to have a single URL type answer (let me know if I can help with that).

My main message is that we should start treating this like a production 
class system which will go in to real schools (some we know about and 
some we don't) every month from now on.

Thanks,

Greg S

Martin Langhoff wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 2, 2008 at 5:42 AM, Greg Smith <gregsmitholpc at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Those two appear to be a bit later. We can probably get 0.6 out the
> door for them mid-november-ish, with a few more end-user features :-)
> 
> Actually, this is good so we now know the target date for xs-0.6
> should be early-to-mid Nov.
> 
>> AFAIK Moodle is not a must have item for either deployment.
> 
> Well, a UI for the XS will be a must-have for them, and that is based
> on Moodle, so...
> 
>> A stable and scalable eJabber is critical as are basic XS features like:
>> - Caching
>> - NAT
> 
> those are in
> 
>> - Filtering (is DanGuardian built in and shipped with the XS ?)
> 
> that's not in 0.5 - we can prioritise for 0.6.
> 
>> Spending a little more time to make sure that XS 0.5 is very stable and well
>> documented is a good idea.
> 
> Just a little time... 0.5 is "base frameworks, some basic features",
> 0.6 is the "now we add useful features" release.
> 
>> 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.
> 
> so far I'm hoping to keep my cards close to my chest for 0.7 :-)
> 
> cheers,
> 
> 
> 
> m