SME Server wishlist

This page tries to catch all ideas and serves as a centralised overview of user submitted new or enhanced SME Server features suggestions.

Please note down your thoughts in a simple 1 liner. Further in depth discussions can be done on the devinfo mailinglist and the discussion mailing list.

This 'wishlist' is what it is, a list of wishes. Nothing more, nothing less. Which ones are 'in' or 'out' should be decided by the community on the mailing lists. All suggestions are about SME Server in general and not targeted specifically towards any one version of SME Server. A feature or suggestion that has been decided on to be included in a version will be logged in our Bug Tracker. Please join in.

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Must have

• a governance of one or more persons as the debian way.....we need a leader (Stephdl) -> The Future of SME Server
• publication of expenses and revenues to determine the needs and provide confidence how the money is spent .... with this I can know if I should give more (Stephdl).
  • Getting organised on this -> The Future of SME Server

Nice to have

	Note:
	SME 9.0 is just moving SME 8.0 onto a CentOS 6 base. No new feature is planned. SME 9.1 will be open for new features that have a credible development plan. For now the current events and efforts are geared towards a transition from SME8 to SME9 'as is'

• Webmail (Ian)
  • Decide if webmail is Core or Contrib
  • Investigate the webmail solutions available, and features such as activesync
  • Decide which webmail should be in core, if any

• Samba 4 (David Harper)
  • Decide whether Samba 4 is going to be production ready for the SME 9 dev cycle
  • Investigate the implications for the SME ecosystem of moving to Samba 4 (e.g. currently UNIX accounts are used for authentication but for Samba 4 all auth would have to be done through Active Directory - e.g. IMAP, webmail, VPN etc.)
  • Would likely require BIND 9 instead of dnsmasq

• NFS server (David Harper)
  • Investigate ways of promulgating network-wide UNIX UID & GID - LDAP or AD based
  • Would allow for "roaming profile" like setups for clients like Ubuntu and CentOS Desktop

• High Availability (HF)
  • Initial HA based on 2-node fail-over, active/standby cluster involving 2 SME Servers
  • Only supervised services are monitored and HA aware
  • Includes real-time replication of data between the 2 nodes (LAN/WAN Raid1 based on DRBD)
  • Proof of concept available

• Cloud awareness (HF)
  • Market development and usage of services and software are changing quickly. One of them being 'Cloud' and all xaaS related services
  • Being able to deploy SME Server as a Virtual Machine (VPS) in ServerGateway mode with an ISP that only offers 1 Network interface
  • Patch available, Proof of concept applied on production servers

• OpenVPN Bridge (Credit: Daniel)
  • OpenVPN_Bridge is a much wanted feature, and could be considered as a Core feature
  • Remote workers, home office, road-worriers is a very common way of working today

Idea's and suggestions

• Setup the contribs site with a more prominent download page where after the download the user is prompted for donations or signup to Email newsletters. I just noticed how Eclipse was doing that after you downloaded a Eclipse package. http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/download.php?file=/technology/epp/downloads/release/juno/SR1/eclipse-cpp-juno-SR1-win32-x86_64.zip&mirror_id=1051 (MarcoHess)
• Figure out whether the Dungog tools are abandonware and if so whether they can be released under an open source licence (David Harper)
  • We simply need to ask Stephen RequestedDeletion (talk) 22:28, 4 February 2013 (MST)