I wanted to give you a quick update on the progress of the
CarrierClass.net project, since I hadn't done so in a while. I
presented at IT360 in Toronto at the beginning of the month, and got a
lot of good feedback; the presentation is on the website[1]. I will be
presenting at Cluecon in Chicago at the end of June; hopefully I can
get to meet some of the people on the list there! I will also be
presenting and animating a workshop in France in July, at the annual
Free Software Meeting; pointers to both upcoming gatherings are on the
main page at CarrierClass.net.

On the development side, things are going well, although I am a couple
weeks behind schedule, but one may think of it as a good sign since
this was due to paid work that supported the project. I'm not sure how
things are going to pan out financially speaking, though, so I'm
investigating my options at this point.

I've been working extensively on the next release, with a goal of
providing in the upcoming 2.1 release the same features present today
in the 2.0 release, but with a web interface instead of a text
interface and script commands!
Over the past few weeks I completed all of the code connecting the Web
UI database to the configuration processes running on the servers in
the system (the only thing that is missing is a big button on the web
interface); this included some "fun" activities such as synchronizing
the dozen steps required to startup replication in MySQL across
multiple servers. All these efforts also mean that the installation
("bootstrap") process for the entire system now fully works -- in the
package I posted on the website about a month ago, only the web
interface would work in "dummy" mode, on a single server (this is now
History!).
I also worked on the code to remotely add new servers to the system,
which includes a lot of ancillary tasks (distributing ssh keys,
distributing copies of the configuration database, etc.) -- some of
this still needs to be finished and is what I am currently working on.

As usual you can download (or browse) the latest code from the SVN
repository on the website; I'm not planning to release a package until
we are closer to 2.1 and things stabilize. (The SVN changes are posted
in a blog[2] if you'd like to follow development.) I haven't worked
much on the CD distribution lately, but I still hope to have a couple
weeks before Cluecon to get it ready so that I can bring one to the
conference. We'll see!

Thank you for your continued interest in CarrierClass.net. Next email
will probably be in a few weeks, at the time of the 2.1 release.

Sincerely,
Stéphane Alnet

[1] http://carrierclass.net/it360
[2] http://carrierclassnetcommits.blogspot.com/

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