Technical Discussion meeting

The technical discussion meeting is intended to be a freeform forum for computing people (and perhaps any other interested parties?) to discuss technical matters which they find of interest. The meetings will normally take place on the final Wednesday of the month, starting at 2pm. Notes will be taken during the meeting and a summary of matters discussed produced. Anyone can suggest a topic for discussion for the meeting, please add your suggestions below:

Please add new topics in the following format:

• Topic name - your name - votes (see below)
  • Short description of what you would like to see discussed.

Topics for 31st August 2016

• RPM package naming guidelines - neilb
  • This is the discussion that didn't happen at the last Operation Meeting OperationalMeetingDiscussionTopics, due to interested parties not being available.
  • The current packaging guidelines are now quite old, lack clarity and may not be appropriate for all situations so a review is needed.
  • Current IS guidelines - https://www.wiki.ed.ac.uk/display/LCFG/RPMRepositoriesProposal#RPMRepositoriesProposal-naming
• gitlab and similar type software - cms
  • How best should we deal with gitlab type software installs, ie where they provide a pre-packaged suite of software, eg apache, openssh, DB, etc that does not track quickly enough (if at all) the security updates that we would be applying the individual packages.

Topics for 25th November 2015

• Security week/day - How should this be run?
• apacheconf - What's good/bad? What extra features would we like?

Topics for 28th January 2015 - if-1.16

• Docker. iainr
  • we've had a request from a user to install docker (https://www.docker.com/whatisdocker/) is this a rabbit hole we want to go down?

Updates on discussions from previous meetings

• Progress on mobile services
  • Printing - cms
  • Authentication/VPN - Toby
  • AV - Alison

To add votes for a topic, please add either a '+' to indicate interest or a '-' to indicate uninterest. One vote per person please!

Notes from Meetings

* Notes from 20-11-13

* Notes from 22-01-14

* Notes from 19-03-14

* Notes from 16-04-14

* Notes from 21-05-14

* Notes from 24-09-14

* Notes from 26-11-14

* Notes from 25-06-15

CraigStrachan - 18 Nov 2013