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For the March 12 meeting:
Upgrading Strategy
Problem Tracking Systems
JITMail
Beta report
The following notes are live at
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Chebucto/Technical/CSuiteWorkshop/Minutes/Entry.html
+ Ed Dyer
CSuite Workshop - March 5, 1997
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Agenda:
* CSuite Beta Report
* Owen-Sound System
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This meeting was best characterized by "lots of discussion" ;-)
CSuite Beta Report
CSuite 1.0-beta-1.0 is ready to roll!
See the Announcement on the CSuite-Dev mailing list. Those wishing to
participate in this very short beta testing round should send a note
containing only "Subscribe CSuite-Dev" to majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca for
on-going discussion.
CSuite 1.0-beta-1.0 Status
Clean install
Chebucto Suite installs, using scripts and its own version of lynx,
driving a forms-based interface, cleanly on Debian Linux 1.2 (Kernel
2.0.29) with these packages installed.
Tested
CSuite has now undergone a major testing effort, with both automated
and manual evaluation. We have a shrinking list of those few links and
features that have not undergone automated testing :( but these should
mainly be tested by the end of the beta testing cycle. Exceptions may
be the year-end testing, and some functions which are triggered by
exception conditions, but which have been developed and demonstrated
on our sponsor's host Chebucto Community Network.
New license
There will be a new license agreement which clarifies and expands upon
the terms of the previous version.====link====
Acknowledgements
We are requiring certain placement of links on a couple of areas.
First, a CSuite acknowledgement will appear first on the site's
acknowledgements page, or second if an acknowledgement to the site's
own volunteers appears first.
New Features
Many new features will abound.
* Chief among these will be the remote links on the who,
i(Information Provider index), search, people, and recent
functions, implemented by a script which retrieves periodic
updates of a database file from the Chebucto server. Each
cooperating site will be able to customize their local feature
locations, and submit their own links to the database.
* New versions of Lynx and Pine will be included.
* Most however, have to do with the operation of the system, and are
not so obvious to the user.
Beta changes
Change information on CSuite during the beta cycle will be available
through http://csuite.chebucto.ns.ca/CSuite/changes/
Disk Partitioning
Here is a proposed disk partitioning scheme (revised from last week.)
Based on our experience on CCN, this is what we came up with, for a
small Community Net with say 500 to 1000 members. To support
additional users, proportionally more disk space would be needed. It
is assumed that access to a separately hosted news server is
available.
estimate based on n = number of sessions, w = size of Xwindows
distribution, solve for x, which is a function of number of users to
be supported; for a 2 GB drive, x works out to about 466 MB. All sizes
in MBytes unless specified.
partition size notes quotas 2GB example
swap mem + 2n maximum single swap partition
average user session 2-3 MB 128
/var/log 50 + x/4 log area - grows; includes csuite/log
separate so it doesn't overrun the system 164
/, /usr, csuite, info may be combined to taste
/ 50 + x/4 includes /tmp 164
/usr 100 + w no room for Xwindows in example 100
csuite 200 csuite files, help, services 200
info 50 + x mainly IP areas, maybe shared with help and services
Optional 516
home 50 + x users' directories Yes 516
mail 50 + x/2 users' mail Yes 284
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CyberSound System
Owen Sound's CyberSound Community Net temporary address will be our
first formal 1.0-beta-1.0 test site. The partitions will be rebuilt
according to the above scheme, and Linux and CSuite installed March 6.
Drivers for the multiport board need to be updated. Initial testing by
the Owen Sound team will commence thereafter, and then the system will
be shipped out.
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Submitted by Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca
Workshop Coordinator David J Murdoch djm@chebucto.ns.ca
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