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Theon enhancements: linkable values | Make all values in the student stats pages on Theon linkable to the students generating those stats. E.g., If you look at the page "institute Stats", under ILCC year 4 on Student (Research), it says there are4 students. I would like that number "4" to be a link to the list of those 4 students who are members of ILCC in their fourth year. This would be really useful, because then you can immediately see who supervises them, their end date, etc. |
Alex Lascarides | Neil McGillivray | This in itself is just a Trac issue as its trivial once the following is in place. To support this we should create an "anchor" framework for the portal based on existing report meta data so that you can auto-generate links in a report at an abstracted level, e.g. add a link from here to report "x" optionally using id "y" (optionally using sub-page id "z"), which can then be automatically mapped to the actual url/href rather than having to hardcode specific portal urls into each report. Adding this would take maybe half a day or so and is also just a Trac issue. | |
Theon enhancement: max period students | It would be great if on the "research student status" pages, we could somehow visualise those students who are less than 3 months away from their maximum study period. I would also theon to generate an email at the deadline minus 3 months to the supervisor (cced to iSS) warning them of the deadline, and to get in touch if there is a problem. |
Alex Lascarides | A couple of hours work, should just be a Trac issue | ||
Blog | Convert current Wordpress individual blog to a supported service, and add in BuddyPress group support | Austin Tate | Dave Robertson | This work is already on the Services Unit list of things to do and should not require a level of effort which would justify a full scale developement project. Austin has agreed that once this work has been done, effort should be focused on a wider effort to produce a integrated School social platform. This will require a development project but will not start until the School Drupal service is fully deployed. cms |
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Media Server | Extend if necessary the media server at media.inf.ed.ac.uk to provide (potentially) large (and growing) file storage area for internal hosting of media, videos, lecture components, etc. at a stable long term URL. Allow for serving as hintyed for streaming and download via http:// protocol and also ensure it can stream content in real time with rstp:// protocol concurrently at a medium scale. Larger events and synchronous classes would continue to be handled by extenal streaming means. Allow for real time event streaming at modest (workshop and on-line class) scale (say 50 streams) using sdp announcements from live feeds from authorised users. |
Austin Tate | Bob Fisher, Dave Robertson | This would be a major rescoping of the current media.inf service, which was really a simple solution to avoid storing large binary files inside CVS, that would otherwise belong on www.inf.ed.ac.uk. Did we not once have an Apple based media streaming service in Informatics? neilb |
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Publish teaching material using SVN rather than CVS | Most teaching material is published using CVS. Can we please port this to SVN? I find using CVS rather than SVN takes considerable time (for instance, SVN is much quicker when changing directory structure). |
Phil Wadler | Should be doable, and would remove our use of cvs pserver authentication. Would need to check that the various hooks we have into cvs to do triggers and access control could be reimplemented, and that publishing through the web would still work. neilb |
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Investigate sFlow | Most of our core switches now speak sFlow. Investigate whether this technology would provide us with any useful information that we don't currently have. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/98 | inf-unit | |||
Intrusion Detection System | We don't have any automated mechanism at the moment for spotting compromised machines. We could do with one somewhere (or perhaps one or more at each site) watching the network for the usual traffic signatures. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/102 | inf-unit | |||
Scanning for compromised machines | The central University scanning system didn't really ever go anywhere. Do one ourselves. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/103 | inf-unit | |||
Perimeter filter logging | Review the (minimal!) logging that's done by our perimeter filters, and consider what our options might be. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/133 | inf-unit | |||
KDC upgrade to 1.9 | Test kerberos version 1.9.x KDCs. Add any additional configuration hooks required. Upgrade the INF and IFRIEND KDCs. Required for SL6. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/223 | inf-unit | |||
Full-service jabber | Our current jabber not-a-service has a few rough edges. Bring it up to scratch. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/221 | inf-unit | |||
CVS repositories for transferable skills courses | For all UG and MSc courses there is a CVS repository that allows course lecturers and ITO staff to create and maintain web pages and deposit course materials. This is useful in allowing staff to share responsiblity for the course and, especially, to hand such material on to staff taking over a course. There is no such provision for transferable skills courses aimed at PG students. This would be useful. Can such CVS respositories be routinely created for all transferable skills courses? | Alan Bundy | Alex Lascarides | I think all that's required here is an agreement to create a URL like www.inf.ed.ac.uk/ research/courses/ neilb |
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Package Repository web front end | Web search front end to package repository (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/214) | MPU unit | |||
LCFG client component cleanup | Code clean up LCFG client component (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/225) | MPU unit | |||
Improve server hardware interaction | Implement semi-automated BIOS/firmware updates for servers (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/171) | MPU unit | |||
System security enhancements | (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/224) | MPU unit | |||
SL6 Upgrade for RAT Unit | (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/220) | RAT unit | |||
Webmark Reform | (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/205) | RAT unit |
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Windows 7 upgrade | The University is upgrading all Managed Desktops to Windows 7. (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/229) |
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