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	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
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	IS ITI Enterprise Services We are continuing to bring exciting new services managed by LCFG - all our mail relays, eddir/smsdir servers, maildata server, MariaDB Galera cluster for EASE and soon ... Sympa mailing lists and half of Staffmail. Still waiting for our Puppet efforts to bring similar levels of value as LCFG.
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> >	XFS All our servers (and team's desktops) are built with a single root XFS partition. This has been fine on servers, but desktops sometimes don't boot due to something preventing the filesystem cleanly.
	Bugs We really would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in https://bugs.lcfg.org/ would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month. -- squinney - 2018-10-31

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	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
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	Pyngi - Python Components Work on building a framework for building LCFG components in Python is under way. The intent is to allow natural Python coding to be used while respecting the historic LCFG approach. Further work is needed, opinions, advice and coding effort are welcome. Subversion repository is: https://svn.lcfg.org/svn/source/trunk/pyngi
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> >	Logging IS have changed their LCFG managed servers to log closer to the native OS to reduce surprise and confusion for colleagues when they find `/var/log/messages` and so on empty, and `/etc/rsyslog.conf` the one deployed by the original RPM. The LCFG components are instructed to log via syslog, and the results are all harvested by FileBeat and sent to LogStash for processing and storing in ElasticSearch and viewing in Kibana. It's not perfect but has proven useful already. Macos Support Going, going ... almost gone! The IS Devolved LCFG infrastructure refresh (almost complete) will not have any support for Macos - no building, no compiling profiles, no distributing packages. IS ITI Enterprise Services We are continuing to bring exciting new services managed by LCFG - all our mail relays, eddir/smsdir servers, maildata server, MariaDB Galera cluster for EASE and soon ... Sympa mailing lists and half of Staffmail. Still waiting for our Puppet efforts to bring similar levels of value as LCFG.
	Bugs We really would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in https://bugs.lcfg.org/ would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month. -- squinney - 2018-10-31

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  LCFG Annual Review 2018 

On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
 Work on improving the security of LCFG profile access is still ongoing. We now have support for GSSAPI authentication when fetching profiles from the server. We have also tightened up the permissions on the various files and directories used by the LCFG client, the main result of which is that users wanting to be able to run qxprof must be in the lcfg group. These features are ready for testing but not all are the default yet, they will be slowly introduced over the next few months.
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 We have been using Redhat-based distributions for over 20 years. Are they still a good fit for our needs? What is good about using RHEL? What problems do we have with RHEL? Would any other Linux distribution be better?
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 Work on building a framework for building LCFG components in Python is under way.  The intent is to allow natural Python coding to be used while respecting the historic LCFG approach.  Further work is needed, opinions, advice and coding effort are welcome. Subversion repository is: https://svn.lcfg.org/svn/source/trunk/pyngi
  Bugs  
 We really would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in https://bugs.lcfg.org/ would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month.

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	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
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	Work on improving the security of LCFG profile access is still ongoing. We now have support for GSSAPI authentication when fetching profiles from the server. We have also tightened up the permissions on the various files and directories used by the LCFG client, the main result of which is that users wanting to be able to run qxprof must be in the lcfg group. These features are ready for testing but not all are the default yet, they will be slowly introduced over the next few months.
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> >	Pyngi - Python Components Work on building a framework for building LCFG components in Python is under way. The intent is to allow natural Python coding to be used while respecting the historic LCFG approach. Further work is needed, opinions, advice and coding effort are welcome. Subversion repository is: https://svn.lcfg.org/svn/source/trunk/pyngi
	General Discussion Bugs We really would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in https://bugs.lcfg.org/ would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month.

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	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
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	Upcoming Development
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	General Discussion

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	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
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	EL7
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> >	This year has seen two minor releases - 7.5, 7.6. We are currently only supporting 7.5, we expect to add support for 7.6 in the LCFG layer sometime early next year. Scientific Linux pushed out an enormous number of security updates, backported from 7.6, on Monday 26th November. Details are available in the scientific-linux-devel mailing list archive. This includes such delights as a rebase of Gnome to 3.28 and a major update for X. The updates will be available for testing with the LCFG stable release on Wednesday 5th December. At that point, the updates can be enabled for individual machines using the `lcfg/options/test_updates.h` header which enables the `LCFG_TEST_PACKAGES` option. With the LCFG stable release on Wednesday 12th December they will be applied by default. MDP users will probably receive that release in early 2019.
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> >	The RHEL8 beta was released in November 2018 - https://access.redhat.com/products/red-hat-enterprise-linux/beta, it appears to be based on Fedora 28. There is still the question of whether we use Centos or ScientificLinux for the next platform.
	Thoughts are being collected at EL8PortHome

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	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.
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	Developments continue...
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> >	Packages Support for processing package lists including `*.rpms` files. Added basic support for categories. Derivations The handling of derivation information has been extensively reworked to improve performance when processing lists of packages (and to hopefully use less memory). Resources Reworked data structure used in components so that resources are hashed for much faster lookups. nodename Improved handling of the nodename in Perl with the introduction of the `LCFG::Profile::NodeName` class.
	Component changes

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> >	LCFG Annual Review 2018 On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats. All users of LCFG are encouraged to attend this meeting to hear about what has been happening over the last year and what developments they can look forwards to in the next year. This is also an excellent opportunity to raise issues that are important to you, put forward ideas for future developments you would like to see and chat about all things LCFG! As is traditional the meeting will be followed by a social event and we will go for dinner somewhere. Even if you cannot attend the meeting in the afternoon you are very welcome to join us for the social event in the evening. If you have any topics you are particularly keen to have discussed then please edit this page and add them to the General Discussion section below with a brief summary. Core project Developments continue... Component changes apacheconf New support for managing http groups. Improved support for listening on multiple addresses/ports. fstab New support for UEFI partition type. grub2 New support for UEFI booting. hackparts New support for NVME drives and UEFI partition type. kernel Works harder to avoid unnecessary reboots. ngeneric Improved Kinit environment initialisation plugin. Now logs calling user for component methods when non-root. Better logrotate config generation. om New support for passing through (keeping) specific environment variables to the component. pxeclient/pxeserver New support for UEFI booting. Can now fetch kernel and initramfs files via http which should be much faster and more reliable. x509 New support for SAN and letsencrypt. Platforms SL6 It's dead Jim... EL7 This year has seen one minor release - 7.5. There is a beta of EL7.6, a final release is due soon. EL8 Still no sign of an alpha for EL8 and little in the way of helpful information on when this might appear. Surely we will see something in 2019?? There is still the question of whether we use Centos or ScientificLinux for the next platform. Thoughts are being collected at EL8PortHome Upcoming Development Still working on improving the security of LCFG profile access. General Discussion Bugs We really would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in https://bugs.lcfg.org/ would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month. -- squinney - 2018-10-31

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LCFG Annual Review 2018

On Thursday 6th December 2018 instead of our normal monthly Deployers Meeting we will be holding our traditional Annual Review session. This will start at 2pm and we aim to be finished by 5pm. This year it will be held in room 7.14 of the Appleton Tower. Refreshments will be provided including some seasonal treats.

All users of LCFG are encouraged to attend this meeting to hear about what has been happening over the last year and what developments they can look forwards to in the next year. This is also an excellent opportunity to raise issues that are important to you, put forward ideas for future developments you would like to see and chat about all things LCFG!

As is traditional the meeting will be followed by a social event and we will go for dinner somewhere. Even if you cannot attend the meeting in the afternoon you are very welcome to join us for the social event in the evening.

If you have any topics you are particularly keen to have discussed then please edit this page and add them to the General Discussion section below with a brief summary.

Core project

Developments continue...

Component changes

apacheconf: New support for managing http groups. Improved support for listening on multiple addresses/ports.
fstab: New support for UEFI partition type.
grub2: New support for UEFI booting.
hackparts: New support for NVME drives and UEFI partition type.
kernel: Works harder to avoid unnecessary reboots.
ngeneric: Improved Kinit environment initialisation plugin. Now logs calling user for component methods when non-root. Better logrotate config generation.
om: New support for passing through (keeping) specific environment variables to the component.
pxeclient/pxeserver: New support for UEFI booting. Can now fetch kernel and initramfs files via http which should be much faster and more reliable.
x509: New support for SAN and letsencrypt.

Platforms

SL6

It's dead Jim...

EL7

This year has seen one minor release - 7.5. There is a beta of EL7.6, a final release is due soon.

EL8

Still no sign of an alpha for EL8 and little in the way of helpful information on when this might appear. Surely we will see something in 2019?? There is still the question of whether we use Centos or ScientificLinux for the next platform.

Thoughts are being collected at EL8PortHome

Upcoming Development

Still working on improving the security of LCFG profile access.

General Discussion

Bugs: We really would like to see more bug reports! We all know about various bugs (whether trivial or important) or have features we would like to see. It would be very helpful if we could get these recorded. We can't promise they will get fixed but just having them in https://bugs.lcfg.org/ would be a great start. I propose that to make them more useful and improve response times at each monthly meeting we review all newly submitted bugs from the previous month.

-- squinney - 2018-10-31

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