May 19 - 25

Issues

• waiting on OLA between ITS Systems and Applications

  • Jenn has distributed virtual server spreadsheet – see upcoming

  • see older status report

• discussed new completion date with client for Economics project, he was non-committal during conversation – waiting on confirmation of date

Highlights/Milestones

• replacing file-based to database authorizations for UTForge Subversion repositories

  • installed and currently testing custom Apache module for SVN-db authorizations (mod_authz_svn_db)

    • testing has revealed that current functionality of module poses potential security flaws

      • in e-mail communication with author to address issue

  • 05/27 UPDATE: further research reveals may be an issue with Subversion change transmission model:

    • http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsForumId=462&dsMessageId=1304305

    • http://subversion.tigris.org/ds/viewMessage.do?dsMessageId=2356771&dsForumId=462

    • http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3242

    • http://subversion.tigris.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=3380

• working on task transition document for WOT Hosting sub-team services:

  • https://utexas.atlassian.net/wiki/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=57880685

Upcoming

• modify Trac Subversion plugin to match schema of mod_authz_svn_db

  • (potentially, based upon addressing aforementioned issue)

• complete task transition document

• fill out virtual server spreadsheet

• determine Systems/Apps/Help Desk split for WOT-Hosting sub-team services

• new timeline for Economics project

• update packages and upgrade kernel for WOT virtual servers