Roadmap Clarification

[Stephan Buys]

Hi,


On Sunday 15 July 2007 11:06:17 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
>
Personally I would like to give Imporved LDAP a lot of attention, this is such 
a multi-faceted problem but something everyone can benefit from.
- User accounts in LDAP (we are working on improving authtool to easily let 
the client authenticate against LDAP)
- Settings in LDAP and propogation of settings to config files (ala Kolab)
 * Perhaps dbus integration is the way to go? DBUS events whenever something 
is added/updated/deleted from LDAP, other services can then register to "act 
of events". For example: When I add a user to LDAP a dbus notification get 
spawned, this in turns triggers a process that creates an Imap mailbox for 
the new user.
- etc

Kind regards,
Stephan Buys




> 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


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