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.
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Karanbir Singh : http://www.karan.org/ : 2522219@icq
hi guys,
quick start:
drop http://dev.centos.org/centos/6/mariadb/mariadb.repo into
/etc/yum.repos.d/ and yum list mariadb\*
This is adapted from the Fedora spec adapted by Johnny for CentOS-6 and
upgraded to 5.5.29; we have done some basic testing on these packages
and they worked for us. We are now looking for wider testing and
feedback about both the packaging, the payload and how its setup as well
as any build issues.
These packages are setup to replace MySQL on your machine, so be
careful. And we consider these rpms to be of Testing grade, unsuiteable
for production at this point.
Post feedback as follow up to this email, or at bugs.centos.org/
Regards,
--
Karanbir Singh
+44-207-0999389 | http://www.karan.org/ | twitter.com/kbsingh
GnuPG Key : http://www.karan.org/publickey.asc
hi,
Over the years, we have had a silent group of people, who have helped,
promoted, contributed code, helped QA, helped in various other parallel
efforts that all bring together the CentOS Ecosystem. Its time we did
something to promote these people, make them visible and to give them
credit for the work and efforts they have been putting in. After all, a
large chunk of reward for open source efforts is recognition.
To this end, I'd like to propose the CentOS VIP effort. A draft overview
is posted here : http://wiki.centos.org/KaranbirSingh/VIP
A key takeaway from this is that this group would in effect take over
running most of the project activities, with the CentOS Core team now
back tracking to running admin and project specific tasks ( eg. making
sure the centos.org domain name is paid for and renewed! ).
I am looking for comments on things to add / remove / change, as well as
a couple of voulenteers to help run the infra around this effort.
- KB
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Karanbir Singh
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Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jeffrey Johnson <n3npq(a)me.com>
> Subject: Re: [CentOS-devel] Promoting contributor efforts
> Date: April 17, 2013 7:44:44 AM EDT
> To: "The CentOS developers mailing list." <centos-devel(a)centos.org>
>
>
> On Apr 17, 2013, at 7:22 AM, cernekj wrote:
>
>>
>> On 17.4.2013, at 11:43, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>
>>> On 04/16/2013 12:19 PM, Karanbir Singh wrote:
>>>> To this end, I'd like to propose the CentOS VIP effort. A draft overview
>>>> is posted here : http://wiki.centos.org/KaranbirSingh/VIP
>>>
>>> Secondly, how does everyone feel about the title... VIP is clearly not
>>> the right term, Captains has been called cheesy, Ambassadors has been
>>> called misleading, Advocates and Consul seem to be the front runners
>>> here. Anyone fancy proposing another term ? or should we just vote on
>>> Consul and Advocate and run with that.
>>
>>
>> Hi,
>> What about:
>> - Masters
>> - Chiefs
>> - Leaders
>> - Directors
>> ?
>>
>
> I'd even volunteer if my job title was actually
>
> mugwump
>
> 73 de Jeff
I had a conversation on IRC regarding torrents and trackers for centos
and the terasaur.org project. This is a note, so the group can get in
touch with me.
Thanks,
-John