Topic: Koozali SME Server v11 2024-06-06 - view from the coalface

[ReetP]

how/where?
let me know

Just upload on Rocket....

[Stefano]

Just upload on Rocket....

bug open

https://bugs.koozali.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12737

[pmulroney]

Hi guys,
Finally found some time to get this happening.  Got an old Core i3/16gb/100Gb hdd, setup with Proxmox.  Ran the steps outlined, got a system running.  Server manager doesn't work, but I can SSH into it so that's a start.

Any suggestions about where I might start testing?

Regards
Paul.

[ReetP]

Fab!!

Speak to us on Rocket - it's quite fast moving right now with stuff changing quite rapidly so a lot of docs may go out of date quite fast. Stuff works, breaks, and back!

It will be much easier to guide you there in real time - we can get your install fixed for starters!

[jameswilson]

just wondering when you will have an a/b iso for us that want to test?

[ReetP]

just wondering when you will have an a/b iso for us that want to test?

When it's ready....

Still got to change to postfix, do some more backend work - the switch to git/koji has been tough, more language work.

Will report in due course.

Of course if you come and help and talk to us on Rocket - you have a login - you'll know and we can help set up test machines for you to play with.

And it will get done quicker.

Depending on time and luck possibly 4-8 weeks for an Alpha as a guess, but that is entirely a guess.

We do want it done ASAP, but we need help.

[jameswilson]

When it's ready....

Still got to change to postfix, do some more backend work - the switch to git/koji has been tough, more language work.

Will report in due course.

Of course if you come and help and talk to us on Rocket - you have a login - you'll know and we can help set up test machines for you to play with.

And it will get done quicker.

Depending on time and luck possibly 4-8 weeks for an Alpha as a guess, but that is entirely a guess.

We do want it done ASAP, but we need help.

I know you all are doing well. I cant code so little use apart from testing. Thanks ill put it to non production as soon as it hits alpha.
J

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

For iso and full repo we had some work to do first.
As som might know we left an old plague bases buildsystem with a lot of internal scripts to make the magic happen, to a koji based system like fedora.
we had then to work out:
- naming convention
- hierarchy of build repo
- auto signing
- populate distribution repo

still on the todo list:
- auto import upstream needed rpm (rocky, epel, openfusion, rpmfusion)
- building iso inside koji (we used a home script)
- mount the distribution repos to a final published url   


also as John pointed out we are still refining the internal of SME 11.  Postfix instead of qmail, letsencrypt as core, bind instead of djbdns are the big rocks on progress or remaining. They are not mandatories to get an alpha 1 iso but they are not blocked while waiting for an iso. Both work are being done in parallel.

For SME 12 based on Rocky 9 all this work will be behind us.

[Jean-Philippe Pialasse]

Hi there,
some updates regarding the behind the scene work.
Trevor got a good scheme for koji repositories after build and we are currently fencing with the auto cleaning scripts to keep them the way we need. All built rpm are automagically signed.
Trevor is also very busy in testing the process to build a SME 11 iso using koji and pungi instead of our old manual script with lot of manual steps. When all is ready you will get your first beta available soon.
I need to import those rpm now in our usual mirrors.

For the actual SME 11 news:
- postfix in place of qmail is about to be released. From my test it is working, only backward compatibility I would like to add is to keep .qmail files working in order to keeps some usage of current filtering and also have a support to ezmlm or similar software. This is possible there is at least 2 ways to do it (by changing the local delivery agent or by using a wrapper called from a .forward file)
- Let's encrypt in core is a work in progress Brian is putting together to the new manager the beginning of panel I did for old manager, most of the logic is already there behind with the old contribs, but we will add more level of control to be sure the certs will always get renewed, even if someone forgot to remove the domain after changing the dns to point to another server...
- Last big rock remaining to work on is to move the dns service away from djbdns to bind. Then it will be just a matter of few polishing bits and release SME11.