Top 5
These are five projects that are almost ready and would be nice to have finished and documented.
See if you can help test or contribute to them. We limit the projects to five to concentrate effort.
Backup with dar
This contrib uses dar (http://dar.linux.free.fr) to create a feature rich backup system for smeserver to network shares or attached USB disk.
This rpm has moved from being a contrib, to testing stage for inclusion in the base install. The latest version of the rpm can be found in the smetest repo
http://wiki.contribs.org/Backup_with_dar
Disable yum remove
Software installer (namely "Remove installed software") is removing more than just the packages selected due to dependencies.
It runs yum -y remove <selected packages> and therefore removes the requested packages along with any dependencies BUT without asking for confirmation. I think this is a bit dangerous and much to tempting especially for someone that is a "bit sleepy"
http://bugs.contribs.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3133
Shadow Copy
Letting network users restore previous versions via Explorer has dramatically reduced the time in restoring files and is a tremendous time saver overall.
This is already implemented, one minor bug remains
Bugzilla:3862
For usage see the wiki entry ShadowCopy.
LDAP user account information and authentication
Storing user information and authentication in a LDAP backend would improve adding Linux workstations to the domain as well (Samba man pages: Winbind: Microsoft Active Directory Services).
