Meetings/2014

Info

• Date: 2014-04-18, ~10am to sometime in the afternoon
• Place: 23, avenue d'Italie,75013 Paris - http://www.irill.org/about/access
• Framadate: http://framadate.org/denfyp6anohle7o6

Plan

• Meet each others :)
• Talk about everybody's work on forges
• Plan the roadmap/features for the next FusionForge version, and prepare an announcement, grouping planned improvements by visibility:
  • End-user
  • Site-admins
  • Developers

Topics

• Improve Ergonomy & accessibility
  • Involves a templating system (Symfony's Twig?)
  • Use standard Fusionforge templating system, HTML and utils helpers to clean the code.
• Concurrent_WebDAV_and_SSH
  • leads: Gitolite-style single user? Apache-Fuse IPC?
• Responsiveness (create projects & SSH keys immediately)
  • leads: dedicated daemon? Reuse tools like RabbitMQ or Redis, or Fedmsg [1] [2] or re-code?
  • Or a job queue and a frequent cron job (every minute? five minutes?) that only runs what's needed
  • Or use the standard job-server.pl ship by Fusionforge.
• Common installation system & merge/minimize Debian packaging branch
• Private Git repositories browsing [3]
• NFS limitations (16 groups/user) - what to recommend? (kernel patch, webdav, iSCSI)
• GID potential conflicts (user gids start at 20000, is at 39000 at Inria, projects starts at 50000)
• taking care of the open Features Requests, Patches and Bugs.
• Use/make ldap or Idp provider plugin (openid, cas, fusiondirectory, lemonldap, simplesamlphp )?
• Planetforge, Forge Ecosystem