CSuite Workshop 1997-04-09 Notes

Date: Wed, 16 Apr 1997 13:53:29 -0300
From: Edward Dyer <aa146@chebucto.ns.ca>
To: CSuite Development List <csuite-dev@chebucto.ns.ca>

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http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/Chebucto/Technical/CSuiteWorkshop/Minutes/19970409.html

Is there a workshop today?

Ed Dyer aa146@chebucto.ns.ca   (902) H 826-7496  CCN  Assistant Postmaster
http://www.chebucto.ns.ca/~aa146/    W 426-4894  CSuite Technical Workshop


                     CSuite Workshop Notes - April 9, 1997
                                       
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Agenda:

     * TC97 Workshop Planning
     * Bug Reporting
     * Patching
     * Windsor Setup
     * CCN Upgrade
     * CCN en francais
     _________________________________________________________________
   
   Development freeze for CSuite 1.0 is scheduled for Friday, April 18,
   1997. Final testing of the package will occur over the weekend, with
   anticipated shipping date on Monday April 21.
     _________________________________________________________________
   
TC97 Workshop Planning

   CCN is hosting a workshop at Telecommunities 97 on CSuite. A full
   day's session, the workshop will be held on August 15, the day
   preceding the Conference. A preliminary outline for the workshop was
   drawn up.
   
  TC97 CSuite Workshop draft outline
  
     * Overview of CSuite features
       30 minutes
     * Pre-Install
       15 minutes
          + background reading
          + hardware planning
          + communications
       
    break - 10 minutes
    
     * Install, Troubleshooting, Testing
       45 minutes practical
     * Post-Install activities
       60 minutes
          + training
          + major subsystems
       
    lunch
    
     * Day to day maintenance
       60 minutes
     * Practical session
       60 minutes
       
    break - 15 minutes
    
     * bug reporting
     * source browser
     * Planning for future
       15 minutes
     * CSuite Directions
       20 minutes
     * Evaluation
       15 minutes
       
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Bug Reporting

   Progress was reported in building the bug-report system.
     * A security concern was raised in regard to pulling in files, and
       it was recommended that Lynx-cgi, rather than regular cgi, be
       used.
     * Also, filtering debug files for passwords may be necessary.
     * Unique headers for every field are required to aid parsing the
       data into the future database.
       
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Patching

   landon reported on his progress with automated patching The current
   Z-mailer demonstration patch works in 5 steps
     * backup
     * confirm
     * kill current process
     * install new version
     * restarts
       
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Windsor Setup

   Windsor West Hants Community Net has graduated from a VCN of Chebucto
   to a stand-alone CSuite site. Users are now on the system, but some
   problems are being experienced.
   
   The CSuite mailing lists were reviewed:
   All the current lists are run by majordomo@chebucto.ns.ca
   
   csuite-announce
          Announcements of new developments in CSuite
          
   csuite-dev
          Discussion of Development issues for CSuite. Includes Workshop
          notes, wish lists, implementation discussions
          
   csuite-install
          A place to get help with installation. Once installed, then
          move on to csuite-setup for Post install questions.
          
   csuite-setup
          Get help with post-installation issues, bugs, etc.
          
   csuite-tech
          CSuite Testing reports, results of testing, and responses.
          
   csuite-bugs (not yet implemented)
          Automated bug reports
          
   David Murdoch will run remote tests for WWHCN
   
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     _________________________________________________________________
   
CCN Upgrade

   Discussion continued on the available upgrade routes.
   
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     _________________________________________________________________
   
CCN en francais

   Tshell users can now access beta pine and lynx in French
   The httpd has been replaced with a bilingual Apache version.
   Several other changes had to be made to vars, cs-lib, etc.
   Urlstats and the httplogsum scripts have been updated to handle VCN's
   and aliases.
   
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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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