Title | Description | Proposer | Supporter(s) | Computing staff comments | |||
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CO Documentation Review | Overseeing the review of all CO internal documentation See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/280) | CEG | |||||
MPU Internal Documentation Review | Reviewing MPU internal documentation. See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/281) | ||||||
Infrastructure Internal Documentation Review | Reviewing Infrastructure internal documentation. See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/282) | ||||||
Services Unit Internal Documentation Review | Reviewing Services Unit internal documentation. See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/283) | ||||||
RAT Unit Internal Documentation Review | Reviewing Services Unit internal documentation. See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/284) | ||||||
US Unit Internal Documentation Review | Reviewing US Unit internal documentation. See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/285) | ||||||
CEG Internal Documentation Review | Reviewing CEG internal documentation. See (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/286) | ||||||
Touchscreens - run with Rasperry PI | Turn results of experimentation with running the touchscreens with a Rasberry PI into a managed system.See Blog for more details. | CEG | |||||
Touchscreens - Media and System Status | A new experimental "media" tab was added to touchscreens for systems status, posters and other promotional material and allowed simple user submission of material. Turn results of this into a proper service. See Wiki for more details. | CEG | |||||
Video Meta Data Index | After some trials with setting up a new video meta data service (like http://video.mit.edu ) develop this into a full service. See Wiki for more details. | CEG | |||||
Firewall Hole Monitoring | Develop a small service to cache (extract from LCFG) machines and firewall holes and to automatically remind users on an annual basis to reconfirm that they need the holes. Add a webmark form to allow users to submit requests for holes and update the holes they have. | RAT | |||||
Project Submission | The MSc/UG4 dissertation/project submission mechanism is antiquated and increasingly flaky. Review what we should do with it. | RAT | |||||
Hadoop Component | Spending a bit of time on the Hadoop LCFG component could be used to add features such as dynamic and automated node removal and addition, better monitoring and improved installation. | RAT | see https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/291 for more details | ||||
Securing Web Servers | Our web servers are not as secure as they could be. The MPU recently took steps to harden the ssh servers, we should look at doing something similar for the external facing web servers to limit any possible damage and reputational harm that could be caused should they be compromised. | Services Unit | See https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/287 for more details | ||||
Mimic Uni Web Redesign | The main University Web Site has recently been given a new look. In the past we have tried to mimic the University's look on our own hosted web pages. We now have 3 different styles for www.inf.ed.ac.uk pages: The new look Polopoly hosted content, the previously mimicked Uni look that we use in our Plone content, and the last pre-Polopoly pages. | neilb | More details at https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/288 | ||||
AFS Automation | Develop tools to automate various AFS tasks (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/135) | Services Unit | |||||
TiBS component | Improvements to the existing TiBS component (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/150) | Services Unit | |||||
AFS Benchmarking | Develop tool for AFS performance benchmarking (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/159) | Services Unit | |||||
Bug Tracking Tool | Improved Bug Tracking Tool (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/183) | Services Unit | |||||
Web space to AFS | Move user and group web space from NFS to AFS (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/243) | Services Unit | |||||
ERA/PR Enhancements | Investigate how best to make use of the contents of ERA within the School (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/189) | Services Unit | |||||
LCFG client (cont) | Remove dependencies on obsolete modules (eg libxml) (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/274) | MPU | |||||
LCFG config to git | Evalute move of LCFG configuration from svn to git (https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/289) | MPU | |||||
Use LCFG to preconfigure Apple Macs | A project to use LCFG to preconfigure Apple Macs - eg LaTeX , Kerberos, AFS, etc See https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/277 | mp-unit | |||||
MPU wee projects bundle | A number of MPU wee projects have not been resourced because prioritised projects have been seen to have higher priority. This project would tackle the wee projects which we consider to be of highest priority.
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Research data audit | https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/project/show/290 | ascobie | |||||
Produce a talks.caml not-a-service | See Iain Murray's proposal at ProjectProposals2012T3 (See also Devproj 292) | ascobie | (originally proposed by Iain Murray in 2012) | ||||
Options for two-factor authentication | Examine the options for two-factor authentication. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/279 | inf-unit | |||||
OpenLDAP: investigate slapd-config | Investigate and test slapd-config with a view to using it for our slapd configuration https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/266 | inf-unit | |||||
Enhancement of wallet to support external X.509 certificates | Every DICE machine in Informatics now stores its SSH host keys in wallet, but X.509 certificates are not yet being stored there owing both to uncertainty about exactly what it is that we want to store, and the lack of easy-to-use documentation and interface software. This project aims to plug those gaps. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/240 | inf-unit | |||||
Intrusion Detection System | https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/102 (natural follow-on from #103) | inf-unit | |||||
Jabber service | Our current jabber not-a-service has a few rough edges. Bring it up to scratch. https://devproj.inf.ed.ac.uk/show/221 | inf-unit | As a side-effect, the service should be taken over by a more appropriate Unit |