Task list for Andreas Schuldei
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  Draft July 30th 2004

Goal: 

To improwe the system for administrating users in the
Skolelinux/Debian-Edu network. Motivate people to join the
development and testing of the new features in this systems. Get
more developers to the Skolelinux/Debian edu project with a
special focus
on Germany.


Process: 

 - Use the free software development methodes well known in the free
   software application development community. Release often working
   code. Announce and cultivate an communicativ environment where
   testers know what should be tested when there you are releasing
   improvements and bugfixes.

 - Motivate developers and users to test every bit of improvement done
   with the easy to use user administration tools  (* what does
   that mean? *)  on irc,
   developer-lists at debian-edu, linuxiskolen with copy to the german
   user list.

 - Facilitation of champion programs where more experienced people
   helps inexperienced people, mainly in Germany.

 - Finding testers and co-developers for the WLUS/Cerebrum
   packages and the tasks below


Tasks: 

 - add some features to WLUS (some beautification of the GUI, password
   hashes in fileimport, tooltip help, Internet access, printer
   quotas, cerebrum interfaces, kerberos integration, automatic
   regression tests) (* for the beautification of the gui i need
   help, i am not the right person for beauty. *)

 - improved ldap structure (netgroups, ACLs, compatibility to other
   German schoolservers, replication, certificate distribution)

 - testing of kerberos with WLUS support (* this seems obvious
   and not comparable (skope-wise) to the other tasks? *)

 - afs integration 

 - cerebrum (packaging for debian, integration into the
   debain-edu system, kerberos support)

 - CA, certificate handling and distribution system

 - Get more developers to activly join the project (even from the
   german language area)


Criteria of evalutation:

 - Weekly reports to the list about progress, status and short plans
   for what to do next :-)

 - Installable, fully working, and debugged versions of the solutions
   for easy user administration on Skolelinux/Debian Edu on Debian
   Woody(Stable)/Sarge(Testing) (* what about cerebrum? *)

 - Security issues and smaller bugs in Testing should be uploaded
   and fixed at most 4 days after the a bug or security message
   is filed in bugzilla or the security mailinglist. (* note the
   distinction between smaller bugs and other, possibly
   structural bugs. it can take considerable time and energy to
   properly fix some bugs. Likewise it might well be impossible
   to get minor bugs into testing within 4 days (10 days time
   without a RC bug is requirement for packages to migrate from
   sid to testing, security bugs are fixed in stable, no minor
   bugs.  *) 

 - The developer version of the easy user admin tool for Woody and
   Sarge should be installable at least 3 days in the week with no
   errors detected by the runtime test suite. (* this calls for a
   runtime test suite, which would be a great step forward and a
   major feature. takes time, though. *) 

 - During the next year two or more new developers (preferably
   from the german language area) should start
   to participate. (* note that this does not say anything about
   the *quality* of those developers; should we specify that
   anyhow? hard... *)

(* i would like to see some kind of provision for the case that i
do *not* manage to get a significant number of people to help
with those tasks. I think the task list above is beyond one
year`s work for a single individual, but should be completed
during the next year (or less) in any case, so we can release a
new major version of debian-edu. And i would like to be actively
involved in its realisation. *)