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Agenda:
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.
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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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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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 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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Discussion continued on the available upgrade routes.
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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