ClearFoundation

You can learn more about the Development Meetings here. Details on how to join the meeting will be posted a day or two before the meeting.

This is a chance to say hello and introduce yourself.

A proposed mission statement will be reviewed. Ultimately, the mission statement will be created by the community and foundation members. However, we have to start somewhere!

The roadmap discussion will be split into two separate meetings. In this first meeting, the discussion will center around the long-term roadmap (2-5 year horizon), including:

• New Web Application Framework
• Plugins and modules
• Developer tools and continuous integration
• When is RHEL6 arriving?

In the following meeting, short-term roadmap items will be discussed:

• Samba 4
• LDAP Master/Replicate
• 64-bit
• Virtualization
• Google Apps
• Home Edition?

The last part of the meeting is all about the week-to-week work that has to get done. This is a chance to discuss short term milestones, roadblocks, and resources issues:

• New build system
• PHP 5.2.x and Elrepo
• ClearOS 5.2 Test Release

The meeting was held using the DimDim web conferencing tool. Needless to say, we ran into some technical issues and learning curves. We may revert to a good old fashioned telephone conferencing system next time around, or just use IRC. The following is an outline of what was discussed.

The development team was introduced:

• Peter Baldwin - gatekeeper (keymaster?)
• Ben Chambers - jack of all trades
• David Loper - LDAP, loperpedia smart
• Shad Lords - build and release manager
• Darryl Sokoloski - does all the hard stuff
• John Terpstra - the architect, Samba, LDAP

An example ClearOS mission statement was reviewed. The intention was to give some scope to the project and note differences with the old ClarkConnect product.

An example ClearOS Enterprise mission state was reviewed. Again, the intention was to give some scope to the product.

An update on the build out of all the development tools was given:

• Build Environment
• Bug Tracker
• Source Code Management
• Translation Tools
• Continuous Integration Tools

Throughout the meeting, the state of various features were briefly discussed, including:

• 64-bit
• Plugin architecture
• Web Application Framework
• LDAP Master/Replicate
• Samba 4
• State of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6 - see link