[Server-devel] DXS github repository

[David Farning]

Thanks anish,

This reduces my freakout level by an order of magnitude :) At time my
mental model fails me. I think of DXS as downstream to XSCE. I think
of AC as doing less frequent releases than XSCE with the goal of
increased stability. This release was inverted as DXS led the painful
shift to ansible.

If you are into such things. The affect of a downstream getting ahead
of an upstream is remarkably similar to 'interest rate inversions.'
http://www.investopedia.com/articles/basics/06/invertedyieldcurve.asp
. Normal planning starts to go out the window. :)

I would like to encourage Tim, George, and Jerry to play with and
explore and test the code at https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs .
We have three general approaches for upstreaming thing code:

1. Do a complete rebase to the DXS code when the XSCE 0.5 window open.
While riskiest it minimizes the amount of duplicated effort.
2. Create a stepwise plan. While possible, is quite hard due to
circular dependencies. :(
3. Keep the code separate.

A couple of considerations:
1. Is it worth learning Ansible? While pretty easy to learn, read, and
code, Ansible is yet another language to learn.
2. How does this affect 0.5 planning? How will the XSCE community
determine priorities and goals for the release.

Have fun and thanks for everything :)

On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 1:23 PM, Anish Mangal <anish at activitycentral.com> wrote:
> Hi George, Jerry, Tim, et. al.
>
> Please have a look at the DXS github repository. We have been able to use
> ansible playbooks to install a School Server. One can try setting it up
> using the instructions in the INSTALL.rst file. We also added Ajenti as an
> admin GUI, there are separate instructions for that. Also included is Munin
> (i think on an experimental basis). Some things which are present in the
> XSCE-0.4 are missing in our repo, like Pathagar, or IIAB, or CUPS.
>
> Mostly, we wanted to be much more public with the code, and the development
> process, as we move beyond the XSCE-0.4 release. Ideally, I want to merge a
> majority (if not all) of this code with the upstream, so we all have a
> common base. Within AC (Santi, Miguel, Ajay, Myself) we will participate
> more openly with the XSCE project going forward. Anna already does a lot of
> work within the XSCE community :-)
>
> https://github.com/activitycentral/dxs
>
> Best,
> Anish
>
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David Farning
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