Project Development Meeting (IF-1.16 1000-1130) - Agenda 2016-05-18

1. Summary of last meeting (2015-04-20):
   1. Lightweight Talks: (these are twenty minutes to half an hour)
      • None
   2. Project Completion:
      • Pilot service for Yubikey two-factor authentication - Final Report - Approved
        • Toby/Ian will investigate feasibility of multiple cosign servers (sharing tokens) so we can have one second factor and one not.
        • Toby/Graham will investigate improving usability of existing weblogin login page, ideally just by CSS tweaks.
   3. Actions (actions will be dropped from here if added to the relevant project home page)
      • SL7 server platform
        • Done (added a target date for when all servers should be upgraded to SL7).
      • Improve LCFG apache configuration support
        • Done (MPU to clarify what has been done (including related headers) so far in apacheconf project. We will need to use the new apacheconf component on SL7).
2. Project Completion:
   • None
3. Lightweight Talks: (these are twenty minutes to half an hour)
   • All projects activity update (in numerical ID order):
     • #168 - Password strength checks - Toby
     • #183 - Improved Bug Tracking Tool - Gordon
     • #194 - Data archiving - produce report - Craig, [Comment: Stalled waiting on MHR Register (#307)]
     • #205 - Webmark Reform - Graham [Comment: much-requested frontend changes underway]
     • #206 - Collaborative LaTeX System - Remedial Work - Iain
     • #207 - School Database Revamp: Phase 1B & 2B - Tim
     • #226 - Replace CVS with SVN on www.inf - Roger
     • #268 - Investigate AFS on ECDF storage - Neil
     • #269 - Redevelop School Equipment Inventory - Alastair update
     • #270 - Project Submission - Tim
     • #272 - Deploy Git/Gerrit as full services - Craig
     • #274 - remove obsolete deps for LCFG client - Stephen, [Comment: Stalled pending completion of other work]
     • #287 - Securing School Web Servers - Neil
     • #290 - Research data audit - Craig, [Comment: Stalled waiting on MHR Register (#307)]
     • #307 - Produce a MHR data asset register - requirements and design phase - Craig
     • #308 - Hadoop on ECDF - Iain
     • #311 - DICE environment for SL7 - Graham [Comment: completion pending latex for informatics classes; final report under construction]
     • #312 - inf-unit initial SL7 work - Toby
     • #313 - Pilot service for Yubikey two-factor authentication - Ian
     • #328 - Firewall Holes Procedural Automation - Alison
     • #330 - Revamp the home page of blog.inf.ed.ac.uk - Gordon
     • #332 - CDT Software Requirements - Iain
     • #333 - Investigation and provision of meeting software. - Roger
     • #334 - DTI building design - Alastair
     • #346 - Separate backup stream for MHR data - Alison
     • #347 - DICE as a service on IDM - Alison
     • #348 - KDC software and configuration update - Toby, [Comment: Blocks: password strength checks, disabling unused accounts]
     • #351 - Suspend accounts that have had no recent KDC activity - Toby
     • #352 - IPv6 investigation - George
     • #353 - Port Research and Teaching Packages to SL7 - Iain
     • #354 - Return to Appleton Tower - George
     • #356 - SL7 server platform - Alastair
     • #357 - SL7 server upgrade project - Managed Platform Unit - Alastair
     • #358 - SL7 server upgrade project - Services unit - Craig
     • #359 - SL7 server upgrade project - Research and Teaching unit - Tim
     • #360 - SL7 server upgrade project - User Support unit - Alison
     • #361 - SL7 server upgrade project - Infrastructure unit - George
     • #362 - SL7 DICE servers upgrade - Chris
     • #364 - EdWeb service to replace Plone for school and student services - Project364SchoolEdWeb - Neil
     • #367 - Lab Exams port to SL7 - Graham [Comment: complete]
     • #369 - Move administrative group filespace from AFS to Datastore - Craig
     • #371 - Improve LCFG apache configuration support - Stephen, [Comment: This project is a dependency for project #362 (SL7 server upgrade)]
     • #375 - lcfg-nut overhaul for SL7 and SMSR - Ian
     • #377 - Port prometheus to SL7 - Toby
     • #378 - Introduction of cloud printing within Informatics - Craig
4. AOCB

-- TimColles - 17 May 2016