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• Launchpad Entry: https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-server-tasks

• Created: 2006-06-22 by AdamConrad

• Contributors: AdamConrad, SorenHansen, SivanGreen

• Packages affected:

Summary

Rationale

Use cases

Scope

Design

Implementation

Code

Data preservation and migration

Outstanding issues

BoF agenda and discussion

Ubuntu Server

• add one extra install option (install with task selection)

Server tasks (to be moved to https://launchpad.net/distros/ubuntu/+spec/ubuntu-server-tasks):

• Virtualization Server (Xen, vserver )
• Plain LAMP server
  • flavors of P covering php, mod_(python|perl), rails?
  • flavors of M covering mysql, postgres
• Zope server ?
  • Plone?
• CMS
  • Drupal

  • CivicSpace

• Plain mail server
  • IMAP(S): dovecot, courier
  • POP3(S): dovecot, courier
  • SMTP(TLS): postfix, exim
  • web: no webmail clients in main; potential choices are sqwebmail, squirrelmail for main promotion (roundcubemail is really nice, too)
  • mailing lists: mailman
  • anti-spam tools: bogofilter, spamassassin, razor, dspam, etc.
• All the bells and whistles mail server
  • Virtual hosting
  • Blah.
  • probably using the full courier suite, or a postfix/dovecot solution.
• Issue tracking / CRM etc:
  • SugarCRM
  • RT
  • Groupware servers (opengroupware, phpgroupware)
  • Bugzilla / Mantis
• Authentication server
  • openldap, kerberos
• Forums software server
  • phorum
  • phpbb
• Monitoring software
  • munin
  • nagios
  • mrtg
  • opennms
• Wiki Software
  • moin + mod_python
• blog software:
  • pyblosxom (if Tollef wants it in main)

Survey of existing Debian tasks (apart from language and "special" tasks, Debian task policy is generally that each task should correspond to a specific thing a user wants to do):

• metric shedload of language tasks
• database server
• desktop
• DNS server
• file server
• laptop
• mail server
• manual (runs aptitude, probably doesn't actually work at the moment)
• print server
• standard (i.e. priority)
• web server

Collection of commercial software we might be supporting on the server (and providing packages for):

• DB Servers (DB2, Oracle etc..)
• Integrate available PHP extension and set up to enable development out of the box with the shipped DBs (they should be packaged first):

  • http://pecl.php.net/package/ibm_db2

  • http://pecl.php.net/package/oci8

Comments

RoaldHopman : There is a really interesting and relevant thread going on in the Edgy Development section at www.ubuntuforums.org :

It's time to bring Ubuntu to the enterprise http://www.ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=191858

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