Re: roadmap after version 1.0
Hello All,
I am very please to see you have some insight to eventually integrate
ILIAS within Debian-Edu/Skolelinux. In the education district area of
Académie of Bordeaux, ILIAS has been used and customized to develop
ARGOS for local use in junior and senior high schools, potentially 10
thousand of users (http://www.ac-bordeaux.fr/argos/).
Hilaire
Le mar 06/04/2004 à 00:46, Andreas Schuldei a écrit :
> at the developer gathering in oslo we had a short meeting about
> how technical development will continue after the 1.0 release.
> I thought that i could post the few notes that i made during the
> meeting with questions, on who looks into this and how things
> should be done.
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> future version
> It will contain newer packages and hopefully be based on testing,
> if there will be a security infrastructure in place by then.
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> upgrade path
> extensive testing will be needed for ensuring that the upgrade is
> possible. some packages have changed debconf variable names
> (slapd comes to mind) and it would help to be able to scan for
> these variables, automatically.
> what other systematic problems might be there?
>
>
>
> sarge packages
> petter presented a list of packages which should go into testing
> to be able to base skolelinux on it, later. some were removed
> from the list, some are in testing allready and some need more
> work. one which most likely will need not only work but some good
> ideas is the ltsp package.
>
>
>
> 16 groups, filesystems
> NFS supports only 16 groups per user. this is not enough for us.
> we want MORE. the correct fix is to switch over to a real
> network filesystem. people have offered help with AFS. I
> contacted several and tried to muster their support and get them
> informed about skolelinux and how help would have the best
> positiv impact. THis will most likely involve kerberos in
> skolelinux.
>
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> Cerebrum, user management
> um, what did we say about this? this is if cause the newly
> developed user admin tool that we hope to use in later versions.
> can someone fill in this blank?
>
>
>
> user friendly interface, webmin
> This is most likely the thing that will make or break skolelinux
> in the future. Webmin is not suited for "normal" users, but there
> are no alternatives. one possible solution would be to identify
> the tasks executed by "normal" users/admins and try to pave their
> way well by giving the webmin apps a facelift or perhaps even a
> rewrite. it is unclear yet what is really needed and used today.
>
>
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> flexible network configuration
> not surprisingly, there exists a webpage on the skolelinux
> website with a howto on this. the real fix/solution would be to
> make the network fully configureable and more intelligent.
>
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>
> squeak
> very difficult license, not distributable in non-free. possible
> solution is an installer package which could go to contrib.
> squeak seems to be a real resource-hog. it is doubtfull that many
> users can use it on a normal terminalserver at the same time.
>
>
> ilias
> this is kurts favourit learning-management system, since it has
> heavy develpment teams and support behind it (like cerebrum, but
> better because it is germans doing it :-). there are however
> 50+ learning-management systems out there and we need an overview
> of what is good and what the best solution would be.
> Everone agreed that we do need a learing management system.
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