[Server-devel] XS-0.7 plans -- your thoughts please...

Jerry Vonau jvonau at shaw.ca
Tue Jan 18 14:53:45 EST 2011


On Tue, 2011-01-18 at 14:29 -0500, Martin Langhoff wrote:
> Ay ay ay!
> 
> This last 12 months have been frantic, as I've ended up biting off a
> ton more than common sense would recommend to chew. And then chewing,
> slowly, awkwardly. Good things have come out of the hard work of this
> year, but the XS has been delayed.
> 
> One good piece of news is that I've helped deploy more XSs in the
> field, both in person and through this list. So I think we have good
> feedback on what to streamline and make easier.
> 
> And I have a window of time to hack on it. So... the plan is roughly
> the same as it was in
> http://lists.laptop.org/pipermail/server-devel/2009-October/004139.html
> - except that I'll start drafting the build on top of F14.
> 
Anaconda will not automatically find the old install if its older than
release-2, you will need to pass upgradeany at the boot prompt if you go
with F14.  

> My actual plan is to have the packages for RHEL6 / CentOS6, which will
> give us a more stable platform. With less churn, I get to spend more
> of my limited time on interesting work :-)
> 
So your going to port to F14 then RHEL6/CentOS6 and maintain the rpms
for all three?

> So -- going back on the traffic we've see in the last 24 months, what
> would you highlight? What have people asked for (that wasn't
> easy/trivial/possible)? What problems have we heard that were hard to
> diagnose...?

Think the biggest issue I've seen is trying to configure an XS for a
pre-existing lan using a single interface. The stock network layout is a
bit much for a novice, and can get confusing quickly.

Jerry




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