Roadmap Clarification

[Rick Clark]

Geoff,

What we have listed on our webpages is a list of tasks we wish to
complete for Gutsy.  The Server team is relatively new, and we are
working to improve the position and reputation of the server product.
We are focusing on small tasks that we can, hopefully accomplish in time
for Gutsy, however we know there is much more to be done.  That is our
main reason for trying to build the Ubuntu server community.  We want
exactly the feedback you provide, and the help you offer.  Please make a
wiki for any projects you would like to suggest/undertake, and then we
can get the ball rolling.

Cheers,

Rick
Team Lead, Ubuntu Server

On Sun, 2007-07-15 at 19:06 +1000, Geoff O'Callaghan wrote:
> Howdy,
> 
> List newbie here, but I have had a read through much of the archives and the 
> web pages.
> 
> I'm trying to ascertain the actual feature development roadmap for ubuntu 
> server (is there one?)
> 
> I can see from the webpages [1] that there are a number of activities listed, 
> but to me they describe a variety of important activities but not much in the 
> way of a feature roadmap as such.
> 
> I can see :
> 
> * fix bugs
> * improve management of upstream packages
> * improve testing
> * improve documentation
> 
> The three that are features are :
> 
> * Integrate AppArmour
> * Simplify Storage management during install
> * improved LDAP integration
> 
> Is that it?  And is there a target ubuntu release for those features?
> 
> Personally I'd like to see added and would be able to provide some assistance 
> with :
> 
> * Xen integration
> * openjdk integration + Tomcat + J2EE stack as a server platform (sorry, LAMP 
> just doesn't cut if for me  flames -> /dev/null  ;-) )
> * selinux integration
> * Highly Avallable Linux systems ie. LVS etc
> * Centralized Systems management via Puppet
> * Automated install
> * I'd also like to see ubuntu-server conforming to Carrier Grade Linux 
> * crash dump management ie lkcd et al
> * I'd also like to see plans for server hardening, beyond apparmour/selinux 
> methodologies.
> * 
> * etc etc... many things :-)
> 
> 
> Are these sorts of things in line with the development plans for 
> ubuntu-server??  Or are they in there already in case i've missed finding 
> (always possible) a valuable reference somewhere :-)
> 
> 
> {1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/ServerTeam/Roadmap
>