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

[Martin Langhoff]

Overall, XS 0.5 is looking shaping up nicely... and late. The F9 port
took quite a bit more time to get finished off, perhaps because I
tried too hard to get it work relatively well, and uncovered a whole
lot of problems with it -- it was a good thing to do as we now have
fixes for all of them (mostly thanks to an very responsive Fedora
community), but it sure took time.

Luckily, nobody is waiting for 0.5 -- not that we know of! do mention
it if a delay of 0.5 impacts on your deployment -- so we'll take a bit
more time to finish off the Moodle bits, SOTP and mapping out the
ejabberd configuration.

The idea is that XS-0.5 and later XS-0.6 should be the preferred
pairing for XO-8.2, still uses the same interfaces as 0.4, but it does
a whole lot more. Good nice features built on top of what we have will
come with XS-0.6.

This week and next I am working on Moodle from various a Moodle
conferences -- my email traffic moves a bit to the moodle.org forums,
unfortunately I can't CC those easily here. I might post a summary
with links to interesting threads - but I'd recommend that people
subscribe to 'Using Moodle' > 'General Developer Forum', which is
effectively 'moodle-dev' :-)

Some notes from last week:

- My week was focused on getting Moodle on the XS.  Some progress
around installation, configuration and themes, still a lot to go. (Was
a short week anyway, I ran away for a long weekend sailing :-) )

- Douglas Bagnall spent quite a bit of the week trying to work out what
resources ejabberd uses in various circumstances.  Things did not
always go his way, but he is getting there.  At other times he fixed
some remaining issues related to the leap from Fedoras 7 to 9, and in
spare moments he worked on bug #8610 ("Theme music for the XS") which
might be opened as a competition once 8.2 is out of the way.  On
Friday he helped the Wellington testers update the XO pool to build
764, which had handily been announced just a few minutes before.

cheers,



martin
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