Deployment Platform/1.0/Todo
1.0
Initial coding of core components
sugar-serversugar-server-basemace
Need to be polished though (see the rest of TODO).
Testing
sugar-server unit tests, initial work done the rest is in permanent processmace unit tests, initial work done the rest is in permanent processsugaroid, library and application that represent regular sugar client behavioursugar-server integration tests using sugaroid library, initial work done the rest is in permanent process- system tests of sugar-server + sugar-server-base infra with reproducing usual and stress behaviour of sugar client using sugaroids instances (up to 1K)
Patch OBS
produce binary packages with sugar-server, mace and sugar-server-base for Fedora-14while most of packages come from initial distro release, monitor for updates for some of package, e.g., xulrunner when hulahop needs to be rebuilt on any new xulrunner updateall packages on obs are based on initial distro releases, hulahop/sugar were patched to not fail on every minor update- announce packages.sl.o, not only for Sugar Server usage but also for sweets/sdk
Prosody
improve mod_sugar_roaster plugin to share the same memory structure of sugar roaster among all buddies
Sugar code is here, http://git.sugarlabs.org/server/prosody-sugar
Content filter
Need to decide what content filter software configuration will be included with sugar-server-base.
Options are:
- Dans Guardian (MinD fork)
- SquidCache
- OpenDNS
- ?
Thoughts:
- Nepal uses Dans Guardian and looks like pretty satisfied
- Dans Guardian's site declares that it is faster then SquidCache, but publication date is too old
- Dans Guardian's MinD for is promising option, it support proxy-less mode and has recent activity (in comparing with Dans Guardian)
- OpenDNS way might be useful, i.e., having such server on the mothership and point all school servers' dns there. but can't find (?) FOSS project with such functionality and opendns.com is a pure commercial organisation with ugly stuff like forwarding failed requests to its site with ads, and it can change the rules at any time.
Monitoring support
If connectivity is good, then no questions, there are bunch of ready-to-use solutions like Munin, Nagious, etc. The problematic usecase is having servers that are mostly or entirely offline. The way might be collecting data on school servers and pass them to the mothership somehow via sneakernet.
Thoughts:
- run http://collectd.org/ daemons on school servers and provide useful uploading method
Documentation
Initial documentation efforts on the wiki.
1.x
Initial Smart Objects support
Many things to think about at first before any implementation...
Mothership
- Interaction with motherships
- (?) Initial sugar-mothership implementation, only regarding to current sugar-server functionality
Need to collect more experience from XS deployments before any implementation...
Not TODO
The features that were in TODO but excluded for now.
Patch OBS
- Create images on OBS for:
- Fedora-14(15)
- Fedora on XO
- Debian/Ubunut
It seems that creating images workflow is too special and patching/support-our-patch for OBS is not too trivial, so it isn't worth trying at least for before having real need.