Hello all,<br><br> I glad to "talk" with you again about Debian and GSOC. Interim period is over, and i wand to present some type of report about my introdution to project.<br><br> At the first some information about created infrastructure:
<br><br>*a project goal: Adaptation and improvement of OVAL security checking infastructure for use in Debian systems. This include three main part: OVAL definition generator, oval-agent and oval-server. <br>* a wiki pages for project idea[1], schedule[2]
<br>* detailed project proposal [3]<br>* a project home on alioth:<br> * web-page <a href="http://oval.alioth.debian.org/">http://oval.alioth.debian.org/</a><br> * subversion repository svn://svn.debian.org/svn/oval/
<br> * developers maillist <a href="mailto:oval-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org">oval-devel@lists.alioth.debian.org</a><br><br> We don't setup any IRC channel because i not sure in utility of them.<br> Also some of disscussion about project submitted to OVAL Developers Email list [4], and you can subscribe to taht list or read it online if you realy interest in process of accepting our changes upstream.
<br><br> Also i try to blogging about my SOC process on <a href="http://planet.nixdev.net/personal/blaze/">http://planet.nixdev.net/personal/blaze/</a> <br>Feed of this blog transmit to <a href="http://planet-soc.com/">
http://planet-soc.com/</a> <br><br> At the current stage i work on OVAL definition generator and in svn we have some code drafts of this tool. Also my mentor Javier disscuss wth OVAL developers about process of acception our changes in OVAL generic interpretatot to upstream [5] and we receive good feedback from them.
<br><br> That's all on this moment, by i think we have more over week or two.<br><br>[1] Wiki page of original project idea by Javier Fernandez Sanguino<br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007/ovalagent">
http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007/ovalagent</a><br>[2] Wiki page of OVAl agent schedule<br><a href="http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007/OvalAgentShedule">http://wiki.debian.org/SummerOfCode2007/OvalAgentShedule</a>
<br>[3] Detailed project proposal<br><a href="http://people.nixdev.net/blaze/SOC2007/DEBIAN_SOC_OVAL_PROPOSAL">http://people.nixdev.net/blaze/SOC2007/DEBIAN_SOC_OVAL_PROPOSAL</a><br>[4] OVAL - Discussion Archives<br><a href="http://oval.mitre.org/community/archives/index.html">
http://oval.mitre.org/community/archives/index.html</a><br>[5]
Thread [OVAL-DEVELOPER-LIST] Patches to the latest OVAL interpreter version<br><a href="http://oval.mitre.org/community/archives/ovaldeveloper/2007-05/msg00049.html">http://oval.mitre.org/community/archives/ovaldeveloper/2007-05/msg00049.html
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Pavel Vinogradov<br>NixDev.Net, Senior Linux Developer