Re: Weekly report week 50, plans for week 51
On Tue, Dec 07, 2004 at 10:59:41PM +0100, Andreas Schuldei wrote:
> this week (50) i attend the AFS hackathon in stockholm.
i participated in the hacking part of the events and prove-read
some of the more interesting talks beforehand (and talked with
the speakers, who were developers at the hackathon).
OpenAFS is about to remove some long standing bottlenacks (like
support for 2.6 kernels, ipv6, kerberos5, (and perhaps even ldap
support!). disconnected (notebook) support is not beeing worked
on, however.
the windows driver is in better shape then the linux driver,
currently. it allready now supports kerberos5, for instance. it
seems to be very slick and has support for automatic (mass)
installation on clients, even. on the downside the current
version does not support windows versions before win2k. i tried
to convice the developer to support even win98 (since many
schools use it) but that is an entirely differnt architecture,
with big gaping security holes and not the development efford
would be significant (so it wont happen, unless it is paid for).
i talked also with sam hartman, the debian maintainer of the
MIT kerberos packages and also a kerberos and openafs developer.
he was keen to help but has very little time. he will look for
local debian people with afs know how to help out. my work on the
openafs package to make user-mode-linux cross compiling possible
will now also go in, after i fixed the user-mode-linux
extraversion bug and packages can install cleanly.
i myself spend the time writing some more modules for rootstrap
(e.g. preseeding, tar-config, base, aux-install) and fixing more
bugs there. i tried to push that upstream, but mdz is in spain
and not responsive to mail or irc. furthermore i used a package
that sam build some years ago as a template to do installation at
install time.
in the night from thursday to friday i helped fixing a srewed up
ldap database.
this week i will
- try to send patches to sam integrating the initial krb5 and afs
logic into packages
- put uml machines demoing openafs and kerberos online
- work on bofhd to actually allow to do something
- compile jbofh into binaries, eliminating some dependencies
- attempt again to build the cerebrum documentation
Further future goals are to
- shrink the import script in size (some more redundancy to
remove).
- work on the wlus testframework, so that work on wlus can be
picked up again in a controlled way
- write a cerebrum backend for wlus
- switch wlus to that cerebrum backend
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