[Server-devel] DXS github repository

[Anish Mangal]

Hi all server folks,

There will be a mini demo at 1500 UTC on #schoolserver tomorrow showcasing
some of the stuff we've been working on for DXS. It's still very early
beta. This is in sync with proposing these features for XSCE-0.5. Some of
the things in the short demo would be:

* Ansible playbooks
* Ajenti - GUI | Wondershaper - Bandwidth throttling
* Github workflow for DXS
* Transparent Client Authentication - How does Moodle magically log clients
in, and how may it be scaled to other services
* Munin

A public DXS instance running on a XO-4 is temporarily setup at:
http://schoolserver.alabamaxo.org

Note: Please have an XO laptop with you, if you want to test out
collaboration, and registration to the schoolserver.

Cheers,
Anish



On Tue, Sep 3, 2013 at 2:34 PM, David Farning
<dfarning at activitycentral.com>wrote:

> 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
> Activity Central: http://www.activitycentral.com
>
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