Chandler Server Project

The Chandler Server Project is an effort to develop a server that can host Chandler sharing for a workgroup of users up to hosting 10000 users. We plan to base the Chandler server on Slide and contribute useful extensions back to Slide wherever possible.

People

• BrianMoseley
• LisaDusseault

Scheduled Work

The server development will not follow the Chandler milestones and release cycle, being more constrained by Slide release schedules. However we can speak of goals relating to the same timeframes as Chandler milestones. The currently scheduled work is for the 0.6 timeframe.

Our goal for Chandler sharing for the 0.5 timeframe is to make sure that it works, identify client or server bugs and document how people can use Slide with the 0.5 Chandler client.

• See my notes 1,2 about trying to install and use Slide on Windows XP. -- HeikkiToivonen - 28 Jan 2005

For the 0.6 timeframe, sharing should be TODO. This implies that we need to help people download Slide, install it and configure it such that it's suitable for use with the 0.6 Chandler client.

Task	Status	Milestone
With IT -- install and configure Slide server for client testing	started	0.4.07?
Test and document Slide installation and configuration for use with Chandler	not started	0.4.08
Revise and publish Slide usage information for Chandler workgroups	not started	0.4.09

Early investigations:

• how easy is it to create accounts in Slide?
• What configuration might need to be done to make Slide work best with Chandler? Strong ETag support is default?

Planning for 0.6

Design's 0.6 planning page^? has some tasks for Chandler client sharing. How do server goals fit into this?

• What kind of account creation and privilege administration will we need for 0.6?
• Can the server help provide a way to map email addresses to WebDAV account names?
• What would make Slide easier to install?
• Does anybody have Slide scalability numbers, so that we can know whether and when to work on improving scalability?
• start coordinating with ISAMET and other Slide CalDAV implementors
• Can Slide already handle user accounts and quotas?

Related pages and sites

Outside resources

• Slide project home page
• [[http://www.webdav.org][WebDAV site] -- links to RFCs, mailing lists

Chandler planning, feature, project pages

• Product planning: WebDAVHostingProject, ServerProductPlanning
• Client sharing plans: ZeroPointSixPlanningOld^?

Unplanned features

These are features we envision being very useful in Chandler sharing but we haven't yet specified or chosen release dates to include these features

• Allow support for extranet sharing
  • possibly through adding support for tickets
  • Alternatively, consider other functionality e.g. certificate sharing
• CalDAV support -- already in progress
• Is there something the server can do to provide sharing status to a bunch of people on a share?
• Account sign-up
  • Web page sign-up for account (a la www.sharemation.com)
  • Protocol for automated client signup for account?
• Implement quota draft
• Bandwidth limiting and metering enforcement?
• User directory (LDAP) integration?
• Advanced authentication -- SASL, Shibboleth?
• ServerProductPlanning (lots more feature ideas)

Non-feature work

• Publish ideal requirements to act as "Chandler Sharing Server" so that commercial implementations can be compared
• Investigate hosting requirements, next steps, hurdles (backup/restore, fault-tolerance, account disablement, diagnostics, handling forgotten passwords)