Status Report

[Aaron Turner <aturner@linuxkb.org>]

Devel:

- Working on "Development Box HowTo" to make it more accurate/easier to
read.  The goal of this document is to allow any developer to completely
recreate dev.linuxkb.org on their home system to make it easier to develop
code.  Right now most of it is done, the only real problems right now have
to do with the search engine which is the most complicated to get running,
but also effects the least number of developers.  I'd love to get feed
back.


Dev:

- Working on Search.pm.  Some code cleanups and auto-detection of run-time
environment (www,tst,dev,home develpment box) so that I don't have to
modify the code everytime I move it from one box to another.  Anyone who
would like to run the search engine on their home system should let me
know.  Various bug squating.

- Waiting for Jason to give me the Perl script requirements for the
DB.cache thingy.  Should prove interesting.

- Proposed we move user authentication/authorization from mod_perl to PHP
for performance reasons.  Haven't heard yet if anyone knows if this is
possible.  Probably not a big deal, I can probably scam more RAM from VA
for Vodka after we go live, but still it would be nice to do.

- Talked about moving from MySQL password() to crypt() or MD5.  Crypt
looks like the easiest to impliment and MD5 is probably overkill anyways.

Other:

- Web interface for webupdate [main|devel].  Should be ready by end of
week.

- Researching possible Kernel upgrades for Yukon/Vodka.  Decided to hold
off until later.

- Changing password for people who forget them.  Don't worry Pete, your
secret is safe with me!

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Aaron Turner, Core Developer       http://vodka.linuxkb.org/~aturner/
Linux Knowledge Base Organization  http://linuxkb.org/
Because world domination requires quality open documentation.