[debian-lan-devel] Goals

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Hi Medhamsh and others,

On 11-11-14 at 03:37pm, me at medhamsh.org wrote:
> As per the Project Home Page Debian-LAN aims at having
> a centralized authentication system. How about having
> a Mailserver, Firewall, Proxy, Jabber server for the
> network?
> 
> And then it can also be a "Freedom Box" to the network
> with all the properly configured iptables.
> 
> And do we intend to have web based utility for administration?
> Do we start with picking some of the existing things like
> cipux, webmin etc. or do we start with something new?

All sounds nice to me - if only it is optional!

I suggest we all start out by looking at the actual core pieces that 
Andreas have put together, and grow from there.

...which means we need it public...:

@Andreas: I notice that both the Alioth web pages and the wiki page
still refer to a git URL tied directly to the debian-LAN project.

I recommend we instead use collab-maint: It is slightly more confusing
for non-Debian-Developers (you need to join two groups, not one) but
makes it easier for Debian Developers to casually contribute code (all
DDs are inherently members of collab-maint).

Even if you prefer using the debian-lan Alioth group instead of
collab-maint, I still recommend to _remove_ the VCS handling from the
Alioth web interface, because that interface supports only a single git
repository, which we would likely want to create sooner or later.



Personally I would want to look at integration of CipUX as I have 
invested quite some time in getting that into Debian and still believe 
in its qualities.  But as said above, I strongly believe that most 
possible pieces should be _optional_.  So if you perhaps want to try 
integrate alternative tools - e.g. the ones already used for 
http://linjim.com/ then please do!


> I want to propose a model with which all the students
> in a school can have their web pages hosted in their
> home directories with version control based updating
> mechanism of their html pages.
> 
> May be I am sounding too diverse with different things
> but I am just curious to take Debian-LAN a perfect I.T.
> infrastructure solution for the academia.

I am eager to actually see the code Andreas have put together, and 
expect that it would be relatively easy to extend it to do many things - 
also what you describe above, Medhamsh :-)

My first task here will be, I think, to try make the code fit my boxer 
tool, so as to relax dependancy on FAI and hopefully make it easier to 
generate test builds.


 - Jonas

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