Active Action Items

• Bebo The Unix news to Mail gateway is unreliable, Bebo is investigating. This is causing loss of news postings to the mailing list. [Bebo has made changes, and now it needs to be tested by the people who reported the problems (Kathryn, Joan ...) - 1/17/96. Tony posted a news item to www-l as a test of cross-posting. It is not clear whether this worked. 2/7/96. Tony reports that the mail to news gateway works, however, John and Tony report that the news to mail does not work. 2/21/96. No progress 3/6/96. Bebo thinks he has identified the problem. 3/20/97].
• Bebo will create the WWW tools page and update the authoring page 2/7/96. [In progress should be done by the next meeting. 3/6/96. This will go live 3/22/96]
• John and Tony (others are welcome) will continue their discussion on security- 2/7/96. [No action 2/21/96. No Action 3/6/96. No progess 3/20/96. No progress 4/3/96]
• Pat will convert and kill existing Clancey documents as appopriate to remove broken links - 1/3/96 [Pat is working on a document saying these have been redirected and Bebo will put in a rule to accomplish this. This has a sunset clause of 6 months. 3/6/96 This has been delegated to Kathryn. Kathryn will put a pointer into the directory giving Pat's Email address. She is awaiting the text of the pointer page from Patricia 3/20/96]
• John will establish a new subdir under www/admin-slaconly/. This will be used for saving the source of CGI scripts that we wish to make visible. 2/7/96. [John has created the area. John will provide a couple of sentences to go in the Writing WWW CGI SCripts in REXX and Perl, since this covers where to install scripts. 7/21/96. No Progress. 3/6/96. John has crafted the sentences, now he has to install them. John and Les will determine where to put them, 3/20/96. Les and John discussed this and felt that the information should be pointed to from a Web administrators page, which does not exist at the moment. After the meeting John and Les wrote the page and put a link into the cgi-wrap page - DONE]
• Bebo will get a copies of the new Netscape servers and explore its applicability for SLAC.[No progress 1/17/96. Bebo has the new Netscape Commerce and Communications servers. By the next meeting he will have something concrete to say. 2/7/96. Bebo will install on the production server on port 5081. Superseded by Netscape FastTrack on Solaris on the MD machine, see minutes of 4/3/96 - DONE].

Stalled Action Items

• Bebo will investigate the interactions of Netscape and the SLAC news server from Macs. [STARtraked, Bebo talked to campus, and deduces that it is the SLAC News software Cnews. We await the installation of the new News server, latest estimate June 1996. update on News server progress 2/21/96. No Progress 3/6/96. Boeheim states that we could have the new news server in 3 weeks. 3/20/96. The new news servers should be available for Bebo to start the install/configure process 4/5/96, see Rough Notes for 4/3/96].
• Tony will deal with the SPIFACE logs. [It awaits new disk 2/7/96. The new disk arrived and Tony moved the logs, now he needs to automate the truncation 2/21/96. Tony has deleted them from AFS space, next he has to do the automation. 3/6/96. No progress, no urgency 3/20/96. No action 4/3/96]
• Tony will draft a document as a high level intro to CGI scripts and security issues. [Tony handed out a first draft of this document. Everyone should read the page (it is at http://www/~tonyj/cgi.html) and send comments by Email to Tony. The idea is that this will be linked to from a Tutorial page on authoring (being created by Joan). This tutorial page may be linked from the bottom of the SLAC highlighted page. 2/21/96. Tony will incorporate suggestions from Joan and John and then put it out there with a link from some standard page. 3/6/96. No progress 3/20/96. Tony lost Joan's comments due to water getting on his notes 4/3/96.]
• Joan will draft a requirements/needs document for a SLAC Web test server. 1/3/96 [No progress 2/7/96. Joan has talked to Tony and they have agreed it is lower priority than the document on Rights and Responsibilities of SLAC Web Authors. 3/6/96.]
• Someone will set up a wish list of items, such as getting/installing/configuring/customizing etc mergemail. This will be made publicly available via the Web at SLAC so we can encourage others to take the baton. [we are awaiting a volunteer for this. However, given that we only have one item at the moment it is not a pressing item 2/21/96].