RE: NorthStar v1.7 Update

["Kevin Welch" <kevinw@iserv.net>]

I agree.

This is one of the features I am really looking forward to.

Thanks!

-- Kevin

> Hi Hitesh,
>
> Wow...you're really going to put rwhois support into 1.7?  I can stop
> beating my head over how to do this manually? ;)
>
> Thank you!!
>
> -Rob.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Hitesh Patel [mailto:hitesh@presys.com]
> Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2002 5:05 PM
> To: northstar-general@brownkid.net
> Cc: northstar-devel@brownkid.net
> Subject: NorthStar v1.7 Update
>
>
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> Hello everyone,
>
> Thought I would take some time and give everyone an update on things.
> Unfortunately, the last couple of weeks have been very busy for me with
> many
> security problems coming out (Apache, OpenSSH, etc...) and general
> busyness
> from everywhere.
>
> Version 1.7 is looking fairly good and I have the next 4 days dedicated
> to
> getting things wrapped up and 1.7 out of the door early next week.
> There are
> some late breaking issues such as mod_perl compatibility and Windows
> support
> that I would like to get into this release, because 1.8 will probably
> be a
> few months down the road.  Also I would like to get the rwhois output
> done,
> get the API docs, and regular user docs updated and ready to go, make
> some
> changes to the allocation wizard to allow the user to select which
> particular
> block out of the list they want to add, and last but not least make
> searching
> a bit more intelligent.
>
> As far as bugs go, there are no blockers that I can find and most all
> bugs
> have been, or are ready to be closed out.  If you have any bugs that
> need to
> be fixed get them in Bugzilla so that they can be worked on.
>
> Also, here is a beginning feature list for 1.8:
>
> Combined Views - This adds the ability to select different objects to
> show
> that relate to another object in the tree views.  Basically, in the
> owners
> tree view you can select to also view networks/devices/etc.. that will
> be
> combined with the owner.
>
> User Preferences (API) - A framework for modules to register, set, and
> update
> specific preference items for a user
>
> Priviledge Seperation - Allow different users to only modify/add/view
> different parts of objects.  For example, allow user1 to only add
> devices
> under his/her owner object and networks under 192.168.10.0/24, while
> allowing
> user2 full access to everything.
>
> Import Abilities - This module was being worked on I think, but I
> believe
> collaborative work on it would be good in order to get some real import
>  abilities into 1.8
>
> Speed - Try and do some perl tricks (like CGI.pm does) to speed up load
> time
>
> Delete Block Range - The ability to delete a block range.  This would
> allow a
> range to be entered along with a mask and allow all matching blocks in
> that
> range (and optionally, with a smaller mask) to be deleted.
>
> That should get things on a role.. if you have other feature requests
> please
> add them to bug #14.
>
> Thats all for now, thanks for your time.
>
> - --
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