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This page is used by the Xubuntu Team to track ideas about what should be done for IntrepidIbex. Anyone is free to add its own suggestions, but try to keep them short. Exposing and discussing the technical implementation of an idea should not be done here, but in a separate wiki page created for this feature and tracked in launchpad. You can more information about this process on the FeatureSpecifications wiki page.

Keep ideas to a short sentence and somehow categorized.

So what do you think should be done for IntrepidIbex ?

Packaging area

• improve quality of web application packages - MathiasGug.

• Implement web interface for server administration: EboxSpec / SOHObuntu

• Modularized /etc/network/interfaces (like apache2/conf.d) - AnteKaramatic

• php5: enable test suite during build - KeesCook

• grub: protect menu.lst from eyes of the world (chmod 640) if password is set -AnteKaramatic

• at: remove at package from base system because it deprecated and can be replaced by cron

Testing area

• Add testing option to server CD. Should present a list of simple, but vital things like number and nature of block devices and network interfaces detected. This makes server testing much easier than it currently is, and should thus help get more testers into the game. - SorenHansen

New Feature Suggestions

• Support for DELL OpenManage and HP Insight Management.

• Enterprise Java environment

• Zimbra (depends on Java environment) - AnteKaramatic

• New apt-mirror task that makes it easy to mirror upstream apt repos and local repos for custom packages.

• Look into syslog replacement - [https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/syslog-improvements syslog-improvements]

• Full RubyOnRails Application Stack similar to how LAMP is bundled at install time, LAMRR? - ["dzportwood"] [https://blueprints.edge.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+spec/rubyonrails Working spec on Rails stack]

• OpenVZ kernel - DanTrevino

• Support for Condor (if they manage to open their sources in time) - http://www.cs.wisc.edu/condor/

• Redundant firewalling - SorenHansen

• Advanced, virtual mail server setup (based on LDAP and possibly a MySQL database) - SorenHansen

• Definition of OpenVPN client configuration bundle and implementation of it in network-manager. - SorenHansen

• eBox, obviously - SorenHansen

• Fedora Directory Server port for Ubuntu Server- AlexandroSilva

• Integration between Ubuntu services ( e.g. postfix, dansguardian, squid ...) and Active Directory Server facilities- AlexandroSilva

• via sysctl, set /proc/sys/vm/mmap_min_addr to 64k to stop NULL-mapped userspace addresses - KeesCook

• password strength meter in installer - KeesCook

• md/initramfs

  • spew details about failing to mount root filesystem - KeesCook

  • change desktop default mount timeout to 1 min, server to 5 min - KeesCook

• create clamav package without -dev to allow self-contained full-version updates - KeesCook

Documentation area

• create micro-manuals on the way to configure particular services - PaulSchulz

• add a section in ServerGuide describing how to set up thin clients. See https://help.ubuntu.com/community/ThinClientHowto as a starter. NicolasBarcet

• SQLite section.
• Backup a remote host using Bacula.
• Examples on how to configure applications to authenticate to LDAP, possibly:
  • Apache
  • Mediawiki
  • Samba
  • Postfix - how to lookup users or mail routing info.
• Update the Windows Networking Section. Maybe add recipes for specific Samba configurations:
  • Primary Domain Controller
  • Backup Domain Controller
  • LDAP integration.
  • Windows Print Server
  • Non-Domain Controller file server
• Network/Service monitoring section:
  • Nagios setup and configuration.
  • MRTG

Ideas from baffle in #ubuntu-server 03-18-08.

• secure AAA
• Kerberos kdc + slaves -- Will attempt for Ibex.
• Replicated LDAP Masters -- Will attempt for Ibex.
• libnss_ldap -- Will attempt for Ibex.
• High Availability -- Will attempt for Ibex.
• Service clustering
• Filesystem clustering
• LVM in depth -- Will attempt for Ibex.
• iSCSI/Fiber Channel
• Multipath

See also

• [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/ Specs assigned to the server team]

• [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/~ubuntu-server/+specworkload Specs assigned to the server team or members]

• [https://blueprints.launchpad.net/sprints/uds-intrepid/ blueprints accepted] for the [https://launchpad.net/sprints/uds-intrepid next uds]

  • Unfortunately we can't see which specs are proposed for the next UDS meeting ([https://bugs.launchpad.net/blueprint/+bug/66093 bug 66093])

• CategorySpec - specs with wiki pages