OpenAFS Newsletter – November 2007
An Update to the OpenAFS Community compiled by the Advisory Council
The OpenAFS Newsletter is intended to be a regular communiqué from the OpenAFS Elders to the community of OpenAFS administrators and end users. In these newsletters the Elders will summarize the activities of the OpenAFS community, the progress that has been achieved in OpenAFS development, and outline the road map of future development that could be accomplished with the availability of sufficient resources. It is hoped that these newsletters will strengthen the community and foster additional dialogues and participation.
The OpenAFS Advisory Council met on
November 13. The following topics were discussed in the meeting:
Development, AFS & Kerberos Best Practices Workshop, Documentation, and OpenAFS
communications. Minutes of the meeting can be found at:
http://www.openafs.org/pages/elders/minutes-20071113.html.
Council of Elders - Member
Resignation
Warren Yenson has resigned from the OpenAFS Council of Elders because he is no longer actively involved in OpenAFS development or with OpenAFS customers. Warren had been closely involved with OpenAFS in his position at Morgan Stanley, but he has not been involved with AFS in his position at Google. The Council of Elders would like to thank Warren for his contributions to OpenAFS and wish him well in the future.
Below is a summary of recent OpenAFS development activity.
UNIX/Linux Servers
UNIX/Linux Clients
There have been three OpenAFS for Windows releases since the last Elders meeting: OpenAFS 1.5.25 (9/20/07), 1.5.26 (10/23/07), 1.5.27 (11/7/07).
The following work is changes have been made post 1.5.27::
Future work plans for OpenAFS Windows Development include:
The OpenAFS Admin Reference Manual has
been converted to manual pages
(written in POD), and significant work has
been done to update them and
write additional entries for new commands.
The current manual pages can
be found in OpenAFS CVS in the
doc/man-pages directory and have been
shipped with all recent OpenAFS releases.
doc/man-pages/README contains a
list of work that still needs to be done,
and all of the manual pages
would benefit from further review and
editing. Additionally, we need a
volunteer to work on automating the
process of converting these manual
pages to HTML and hooking that into the
process for generating the OpenAFS
web site.
The other OpenAFS manuals have been
converted to DocBook, but now need
cleanup, updates for all the changes since
OpenAFS 1.0, removal of
obsolete information, and removal of
additional IBM-specific sections,
language, and assumptions. The
Quick Start Guide is our first priority,
but work on any of the manuals is welcome.
The protocol documentation which we
received from IBM in PDF format has
been converted to Microsoft Word .DOC
files. These documents need to be
further converted to DocBook, be
reformatted, and have the Table of
Contents and Index sections rebuilt using
the appropriate tags. After
this work is complete, the OpenAFS
developers can work to update the
documentation to match the current
implementation.
Work on OpenAFS's documentation is
coordinated on the
openafs-doc@openafs.org mailing list. Before starting work on a large
project, please mention the work on that
mailing list so that we can
avoid duplicating effort.
December 11, 2007