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June Community Conversation

ColdFront 2nd community meeting. No set agenda but from the last meeting people expressed interest in storage plug-ins so bring your ideas, questions, and if you already have one implemented we'd love to have you demo it. These monthly virtual meetings will be an opportunity for members of the ColdFront user community to come together and discuss all things related to this popular open source application. View this post to watch the recording or read a recap of the meeting.

This meeting covered plugin demos, storage integration, and ColdFront best practices.

Project Updates

  • 0:18 – UV adopted for Python packaging.
  • 0:39 – Linting added to PR process.
  • 0:47 – Internship project: Dockerization.

LDAP Plugin Demo

  • 5:01 – LDAP sync using Django signals.
  • 13:00 – Archive/delete/update features with OpenLDAP.

Storage Plugin Demo

  • 16:00 – ACLs with per-user permissions.
  • 21:00 – JSON task generation.
  • 23:00 – Python service parses and provisions storage.

Workflow Automation

  • 27:00 – Provisioning and UI decoupling.
  • 30:00 – Legal/approval integration.

Community Strategy

  • 35:00 – Centralize plugin dev and Slurm schema concerns.
  • 39:00 – Deprovisioning practices shared.

Plugin Suggestions

  • 50:00 – Email digests, dashboards, archive integrations.