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forums + portal for {lang}.centos.org sites
by Karanbir Singh 16 Aug '24

16 Aug '24

Hi, Earlier in the evening today Ralph, Fabian and I had a chat about the present state of the language subsites. This email sort of summarises the main issue ( s/w ). We seem to have run into a slight technical hitch with punbb/fluxbb. They dont support LDAP as a backend. And we had decided a few months back that all new rollouts must have ldap backend so we can rollin CentOS-DS / openldap based backend. So we need to look at alternatives, and since the primary focus of these international sites is going be forums : Here is a shortlist ( if there is anything else that people are aware of, please add to this list ) - phpBB - SMF - Fudforum - phorum - fluxbb Requirements: - Must be able to scale ( couple of hundred thousand msgs ) - Must be able to handle ldap auth ( if it cant, whats involved in writing the ldap-auth portion ) - Must address the specific requirements raised by the present www.centos.org forum users ( Can you please fill this section in ? ) - Must support all languages we need ( pure utf8 support would be good ) - Secure - Skin'able Nice to have: - Capable of running multiple instances from a single deployment - responsive community :D Things we will need to do: - Decide on what s/w to use. - Give the ArtWork people enough time to get the look & feel sorted. - Migrate newbb forums from www.centos.org to $system ( hey, english is a language too :D ). - Migrate fr.centos.org into the final s/w - setup {de/es/ja/it/pt_br}.centos.org Actions: Ralph and Fabian are going to work on setting up a test ldap server, once that is online we will then start by installing into our test-vm-farm the various s/w to eval them. If anyone would like to help, please feel free to jump right in. I'll setup a wiki page for this issue, which might be a good place to track progress. -- Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq

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Interested in IA64 build.
by James A. Peltier 22 Jan '13

22 Jan '13

I noticed on the SIG that people interested in other ports of interest. I'd like to express interest in the IA64 port. What is the best way to get started? I have two SGI Itanium 2 based machines. One 64 processor x 64GB SGI Altix and a 32 processor x 32GB RAM SGI Prism. They are currently running CentOS 4.8 and I would love to be able to run CentOS 5.5 on them to get them into compliance with the rest of the cluster. -- James A. Peltier Systems Analyst (FASNet), VIVARIUM Technical Director Simon Fraser University - Burnaby Campus Phone : 778-782-6573 Fax : 778-782-3045 E-Mail : jpeltier(a)sfu.ca Website : http://www.fas.sfu.ca | http://vivarium.cs.sfu.ca MSN : subatomic_spam(a)hotmail.com Does your OS has a man 8 lart? http://www.xinu.nl/unix/humour/asr-manpages/lart.html

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php53 / bind97
by Karanbir Singh 03 Feb '11

03 Feb '11

hi, php53 and bind97 from the 5.6/ tree are available in the c5-testing repo, so test away. Consider the pkgs as mostly production ready, but features that rely on other new pkgs or updates in 5.6 may not work. If you run into one, let us know either on the list here, or in #centos-devel on irc.freenode.net - KB

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Re: [CentOS-devel] A new look for CentOS (was Re: Italian Translation Team)
by Ralph Angenendt 01 Feb '11

01 Feb '11

On Wed, Jan 26, 2011 at 9:43 PM, Andrea Veri <av(a)gnome.org> wrote: > The point now is: which kind of software should the main website use if > the decision would be to give it a new look. Well, IMHO the best solution > at the moment would be to use drupal, it's easy to use and it has anything > needed to make a website rocking. (I've also been using it for a while and I > can tell drupal is a great CMS software) Not wanting to chase you away, this is probably best discussed on centos-devel. There have been discussions and also a test machine for getting the forums out of the main website (php-bb seemed the way to go for that at the moment), because that has to be done before website redesign. There hasn't been a real discussion or decision on which software the main website should run on. Preferrably something which can be "updated" easily, even more preferrably if it can be done so via package management. > The second point would be to setup a test istance with a CMS software on it > to start working on the new website. (unfortunately i don't have any machine > or host handy to run it) That is where we can step in. At least a vm is possible. But as said, this discussion should happen on the centos-devel mailing list, I'll crosspost this mail there. Regards, Ralph

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A new look for CentOS: Main discussion
by Andrea Veri 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

hi, after a talk on #centos-devel with Ralph and Karanbir, we've decided to send out a mail with all the details we might want to discuss on the list. Here are a few points: 1. Who will take the responsibility to coordinate the work and the ipothetic team we could set up to make this possible. I offered to cover that role and I will do my best to have everything working. 2. Karanbir suggested that around 3-4 people should be involved in the project, mostly: 2a. developer / coder on the platform 2b. a sysadmin type person ( James Hogarth (james.hogarth(a)gmail.com) offered to help out with this role) 3c. atleast 1 UI person 4d atleast one design person in the website SIG if you are willing to help out, please state your intentions on this mail! 3. cms software to use, many proposals have been made to the list about which software the new website should use. This is actually up to the official CentOS developers but looks like drupal is the platform that took more +1 to the list since now. (it also has LDAP integration which seemed to be the bottleneck for Ralph in the previous try to renew the website) 4. What the website should contain that it is not on the wiki? We will have to set up a wiki page with all ideas and opinions about this to avoid adding useless content. 5. Having the infrastructure up and running. This is an important point since we can spend words and words on the mailing list or irc but we need to make our ideas effective, otherwise we will get back to the old situation. (i.e stuck after 3 years) 6. I / we think that it is not time to change, I know it will take time, much time and even months but we need to start making this happen. well, that's all. Please contribute to the discussion, any idea or proposal is welcome but please avoid to send out a post commenting which software should be used or not. (this call will be made by official centos developers like Ralph or Karanbir) We need to know if anyone is willing to help and give some time to the project and also we want to hear your ideas about the website content, what do you think it will be useful to have on the website, what's not,what should go to the wiki etc. We need a website that does something and provide useful informations for newcomers and for experienced users, a website which is nice and handy at the same time. Let's make this happen altogether. Andrea

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PATCH Missing ISO 9660 Image
by Vijay N. Majagaonkar 30 Jan '11

30 Jan '11

Hi All, I posted PATCH for missing ISO 9660 image, But not got any response for this patch :( https://www.centos.org/modules/newbb/viewtopic.php?topic_id=29925&forum=37 It will be great help if i get some reply or feedback for this Patch, Thanks for the help V!jay.

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irc meeting today re: 5.6/6.0
by Karanbir Singh 17 Jan '11

17 Jan '11

hi guys, Based on feedback, we seem to have general consensus that getting 5.6/ to mirrors first is the way to go. However, this does not mean that work on 6.0 will stop, we will try and get the isos ready - but we might need to give the mirrors a bit of a break before releasing those as well. I'll get a timeline in place with details after the weekend. thanks everyone for feedback on this issue - KB

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wallpapers
by Kenneth Armstrong 15 Jan '11

15 Jan '11

Will CentOS 6 also have the same wallpaper packages that came with RHEL 6? The reason that I ask is that I love the new wallpapers in RHEL 6, but I'm not sure if they are copyrighted or anything to the point that CentOS can't import them in the build. Thanks, and keep up the good work. I use CentOS alongside RHEL at work, and it is a fantastic project. -Kenny

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Re: [CentOS-devel] 5.6 Tweet
by Phil Schaffner 14 Jan '11

14 Jan '11

http://twitter.com/centos "So: QA 5.6 and 6.0 in parallel or prefer one release over the other. Imho, 5.6 impacts existing installs, should get higher pref. Thoughts ?" Agree. A public announcement of a decision on this, when made, would help head off a lot of user questions. Phil P.S. Apologies to the QA list for the cross-post. On refection I thought a more public forum would be appropriate for this discussion.

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Status update re: 6.0
by Karanbir Singh 13 Jan '11

13 Jan '11

hi guys, I am sure lots of people want to know - so here is a quick status update about 6.0 build. Over the next 2 days, we are going to clear out all patches and ensure all patched packages build and link correctly. That would then complete the package 'tree'. As soon as that is done ( good place to check is look at the AuditStatus page in the wiki, but I am hopeful we can get this done for Monday the 17th close of play ). The only major time consuming process is getting the anaconda patches in, including the language and url remapping stuff; most of the rest should be fairly quick working through if its a few people working on it. The actual distro build process has already been tested, although with a smaller and incomplete tree. With the complete tree in place, we can then get the package policy in place ( as in what rpm makes it to which media disk etc ), and fire up a distro build. What happens at this point is that the QA team get access to the output from the distro-build process; and they need to go through the motions of making sure its-all-good. This is also the stage where the release notes get setup, and the translation teams goto work on their stuff. A thumbs up from the QA team means the content is then passed onto the infra team and we move to release. The 'seed' process takes between 48 hrs to 72 hrs; and we announce release right after that. About 24 hrs after we open the seeding process, we pass around the .torrent files to high capacity seeders ( 100mbps+ available for at-least a week from release date ). so if you can, do join. - KB

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