Deployment Platform/1.0/Notes

Summary

This is the initial release of Sugar Server Kit project. It states the fact that basic ideas and core implementations are settled down. This release should not be treated as a release that is ready to use in the field, but see the Looking forward section.

Conception

Sugar Server Kit is not a final solution for school servers in the filed but rather a set of components that do its work on its own. They might be composed to the final solution basing on particular needs of deployments of distributors.

Read the following documents to know more:

• Architecture
• Statement of purpose for releases

Components

The components that were initiated at that time:

• sugar-server
  The deamon that provides basic sugar related services, like anti-thief support or Journal backup.
• mace
  The mace is a tool to make final configuration using source templates. Mace is supposed to help with configuration of services on Server based school servers.
• sugar-server-templates
  This component contains configuration templates of basic services that need to be installed and configured on bare servers at school. It is possible to peek at some of these services in a downstream solution to apply using the mace utility. See the demoxo demonstration project for example.
• sugaroid
  It is a library and application that mimics regular sugar client behaviour to help with testing Sugar Server Kit components and Sugar Server Kit based solutions.
• sugar-server-demoxo
  This is a demonstration of a Sugar Server Kit based school server solution. It is intended to be run on XO-1 laptops to demonstrate how a Sugar Server Kit based downstream solution might look, but that's only one of the possible ways it might be applied.

Looking forward

The next minor, 1.1, release should:

• be the first release that will follow the releasing plan,
• have reliable set internal automatic tests of all Sugar Server Kit components,
• reliable set of system integration automatic tests of Sugar Server Kit components using sugaroid application,
• documented on development and deployment levels,
• have at least one production deployment (see the Credits).