User:Dustin/Notes/Sprint Ideas

Tasks

We may or may not need an on-wiki list of tasks, but having a handy set of tasks categorized by skills and available time, along with some way to note who's working on what, will be useful. Whiteboard?

• Tasks
• docs
  • edit/update a wiki page - Category:Needs Attention/Category:Needs Attention:Dustin
  • edit a manpage and submit a patch for it
  • copy-edit some POD
  • document encryption support
    • wiki pages
    • write an amanda-crypto(7) documenting the interface
    • make scripts more portable
    • take over maintainership of this corner of Amanda
• bugs
  • triage SF bugs and hide the tracker once all bugs are closed or moved elsewhere
• testing
  • run installchecks on trunk
  • test trunk with a unique config of some sort
  • add unit tests for your favorite application
    • amtape
• perl
  • add features
    • amgetconf list subsection contents
    • allow arbitrary extra arguments to MainLoop callbacks
    • utility to remove several MainLoop sources at once
    • add utility function/sub for MainLoop operation+timeout pattern
    • All program and script should have a '--version' argument
  • rewrite
    • Tasks/Rewrite amtape
    • Tasks/Rewrite amlabel
    • Tasks/Rewrite amtoc
    • Tasks/Rewrite amreport
      • support XML output
      • support HTML mail
  • Amanda::Tapelist should write the tapelist to a temporary file and swap it in
• packaging
  • Mac package build
  • BSD port integration (is there anything to do here?)
  • Solaris/OpenSolaris
  • find downstream patches and pull them upstream (gentoo, at least)
• Set up and host a public buildbot
• App API
  • New Apps
    • Tasks/Postgres Application
    • Tasks/MySQL Application
    • LVM snapshot
    • NDMP
    • Cisco IOS
    • Tasks/Cyrus imapd Application
    • VMware
    • RMAN/SAP
  • Improvements
    • Refactor supporting code
    • better support for exclude lists
    • better support for incrementals in new apps
• C
  • misc/code-quality
    • replace uses of "argvchild[j++] = ..."
    • use glib memory allocation functions universally
    • Use CAP_NET_BIND_SERVICE instead of setting euid=0 for code that needs to bind to low port numbers
  • Device API
    • All program and script should have a '--version' argument
    • add an FTP device
    • add "VERBOSE" support to other devices
    • support reading variable block sizes in RAIT device
    • RAIT device should relay PROPERTY_MAX_VOLUME_USAGE to children
    • Need a way to make other device operations asynchronous from Perl
    • S3: only write 32k headers, regardless of block size
    • Add support for erase()/full deletion to RAIT device
    • Fix locking in VFS device
    • New Tasks/Optical Device
    • New block device (uses raw disks or partitions)
    • implement PROPERTY_MAX_VOLUME_USAGE for S3 device
    • utilize Linux st driver's buffering flags to avoid splitting
    • support appending in tape device
  • XFA
    • better memory allocation
    • make available on server and client
    • Use splice(), on systems that support it, for fd-to-fd copies
    • more elements
      • fork/exec filter
      • libz filter
      • security API stream source, dest
  • Security
    • Tasks/OpenSSL auth
    • Rewrite security API with GObject, GMainLoop, etc.
  • SWIG
    • SWIG infofile.h
    • SWIG security API

Advance Setup

Provide written guidelines as wiki pages (most of these are written already) and in other formats

• for checking out, building, patching, and submitting a patch
  • Fork Amanda on Github
  • as a pre-recorded webinar or screencast (10-15m)
• downloading the latest tarball and testing it
• editing and building manpages
• Perl libs
  • re-record new webinar
• Test::Harness and installchecks
• Application API
  • including pre-recorded webinar
• Device API

Day-of

We should all be around #amanda and available during a time period that would cover the end of the work day and beginning of the evening from western Europe through the western US. This would be a day we don't plan to get much of our own hacking done!

If necessary, we can convene a phone conference. If there are enough people interested, we can have meatspace meetings in the DC area and/or in the Valley.

Provide some kind of token Zmanda or Amanda swag to anyone who commits during this period (or does a signfiicant amount of work that ends up getting committed later).