elementary OS

elementary for the Systems Administrator

Asked by Eric Pritchett

I'm not sure the best way to go about this, but I was wondering if there was any interest in starting a group where Systems Administrators can work together to make elementary the best for Systems Administrators and the users that use it. I would imagine there would be several areas of interests:

1. Packaging and deploying software
2. Developing Tools to administrate PC's, join machines to domains, metrics, etc.
3. Automatically configuring deployed software for users.
4. Developing scripts.

I would imagine a good irc channel would be #elementary-sa and some sort of wiki/documentation, so we could document how to's and such. Thoughts?

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Danielle Foré (danrabbit) said : 		#1

That sounds like a great idea. We could always use new groups of users to provide different perspectives. As always, I would suggest filing bugs and blueprints as the best way to get feature requests on the roadmap. Perhaps start using "SysAdmin" or something as a tag so that someone can easily find all of these bugs in one place. Another thing that could be helpful is starting a sysadmin mailing list.

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) said : 		#2

I think this is absolutely vital for success of elementary OS. Please report any issues you encounter in system admistration workflow to our bug trackers in Launchpad.

I can also work with the elementary-sysadmin community to provide official system administration documentation.

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Eric Pritchett (eric.pritchett) said : 		#3

Thanks for the responses guys! I created https://launchpad.net/~elementary-sysadmin-community which I'm assuming I'll want to change the owner to elementary-core? I also tagged the bug I submitted https://bugs.launchpad.net/pantheon-greeter/+bug/1081727 with sysadmin. I'm sure they'll be plenty of work to do. :-)

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Sergey "Shnatsel" Davidoff (shnatsel) said : 		#4

Yes, making ~elementary-core the owner is probably a good idea.

I've joined the list and will monitor it when I'm not swamped by other stuff.