Meeting:2013-02-11

Here you'll find the wikified minutes of the meeting.

Opening
Present were Hyperbyte (chairman), knipwim (secretary), Enslaver, vagrantc, alkisg, jammcq, sbalneav and warren.

Meeting Agenda
We discuss libpam_sshauth first, also a new topic "Block device choices" after the Union FS topic.

Topics
Scott's libpam_sshauth is the way to go together with ltsp-lightdm. For LTSP 6, the goal is to ditch LTSP's own ldm in favor of another dm. Currently leaning towards lightdm as default although it should be possible to have others.
 * We're going to have a ltsp-lightdm hackathon from 11 until 16 march.

LDM rewrite no longer relevant. alkisg works around the LDM bugs for now by creating a script that kills all client-side user processes before disconnecting SSH.


 * We implement all required overlayfs modules (fuse and kernel) in the required initramfstools and implement it in init-ltsp.d as fallback.

There are alternatives to NBS, like AoE or iSCSI. The consensus is that more filesystem options are ok, but should be implemented in a structured way.
 * Enslaver is going to work on a proof of concept iscsi implementation.


 * Postponed until after the hackathon.

We later discussed on the topic of distro development direction and how much each distro should be in sync with all the most recent LTSP developments.
 * Postponed until after the hackathon.


 * More users would also attract more developers.
 * Making LTSP easier would attract more users.
 * What would help in understanding LTSP is conceptually depicting how each piece correlates with each other, a map if you will. This would help users and developers.

Question Round
Our StackExchange site is still in proposal. For anyone who can, vote on all question with less than 10 votes.

Next Meeting
Set at 18:30 UTC on 2013-02-25 in #ltsp-meeting