Nuernberg YaST team - meeting 2008.08.12 present: shaas, aschnell, ma, sh, schubi, gs, dmacvicar, tgoettlicher minutes: tgoettlicher Topics ------ - Features - Azubis (Trainees) - YaST for Redhat - LinuxWorld Conference - Miscellaneous Features -------- * almost two weeks until installation milestone * open issues: - multi line entries in ini files (product definition) look weird - parser for product stuff is missing, kkaempf working on it - solver error messages should mention products -> schubi * aschnell: snapshot is more difficult than expected perhaps not enough time for multipath * schubi: Investigation into a YaST webservice based on the REST-style protocol. The webservice server (based on Rails) communicate via the DBUS interface of SCR (made by Ladislav and Martin) with YaST components. Already running interfaces: - managing services (start, stop, reload,....) - setting time, timezone,... - configure NTP Next steps: - additional functionality: setting user, root password, firewall and network - integration with policykit. * shaas: diploma thesis: cim provider is ready package is available in shaas' buildservice home project Trainees ----------------- * mmaher leaves our team * aorlovskyy joins our team on 2008-09-01 YaST for Redhat --------------- * pathnames in scr don't fit other distributions mapping of pathnames and filenames is needed LinuxWorld Conference ----------- * dmacvicar: attended LinuxWorld conference * talk about yast * positive feedback for the partitioner * users wish a mechanism to ask the admin via email for permission to install a package Miscellaneous ------------- * idea: publish a list of Myth about YaST : size, handling of config files edited by hand, etc. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: yast-devel+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: yast-devel+help@opensuse.org