If you have an OpenID account, you can now use it to comment and to register on this blog, without having to register on this blog. I haven’t required logins to commont on this blog since June of 2006, but still required commentors to fill in their name and email and optionally allowed them to include a URL for their own site. Now, these kinds of things can be done via your OpenID.

I didn’t activate the second WordPress plugin yet, as I haven’t registered an OpenID of my own, nor have I set up an OpenID server.

I’m thinking about standing up an OpenID server on OpenBrainstem. I’m not really sure about this yet, so I’m asking you, my readers, to weigh in on the idea. Post your views as comments to this post. Tell me why I should or shouldn’t run my own OpenID server.

openbrainstem-announce:              "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman post openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-admin:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman admin openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-bounces:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman bounces openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-confirm:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman confirm openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-join:         "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman join openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-leave:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman leave openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-owner:        "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman owner openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-request:      "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman request openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-subscribe:    "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman subscribe openbrainstem-announce"
openbrainstem-announce-unsubscribe:  "|/usr/lib/mailman/mail/mailman unsubscribe openbrainstem-announce"

What I was missing was to add these kinds of entries to the /etc/postfix/virtual_alias file:

openbrainstem-announce@openbrainstem.net              openbrainstem-announce
openbrainstem-announce-admin@openbrainstem.net        openbrainstem-announce-admin
openbrainstem-announce-bounces@openbrainstem.net      openbrainstem-announce-bounces
openbrainstem-announce-confirm@openbrainstem.net      openbrainstem-announce-confirm
openbrainstem-announce-join@openbrainstem.net         openbrainstem-announce-join
openbrainstem-announce-leave@openbrainstem.net        openbrainstem-announce-leave
openbrainstem-announce-owner@openbrainstem.net        openbrainstem-announce-owner
openbrainstem-announce-request@openbrainstem.net      openbrainstem-announce-request
openbrainstem-announce-subscribe@openbrainstem.net    openbrainstem-announce-subscribe
openbrainstem-announce-unsubscribe@openbrainstem.net  openbrainstem-announce-unsubscribe

After running postmap and /etc/init.d/postfix reload, it works. :)

The really odd thing is that I wasn’t even looking at this stuff, I wasn’t working on my mail server and it just occured to me how to fix the error, out of the blue. So, I sat down and tried it. I only wish inspiration had struck me when I was first setting this up.

However, it is not yet ready for use. The configuration of RT will take me a bit of time (especially since this is my first time using it). Take a look at the OpenBrainstem main website launch punchlist for more information on my progress in bringing some of the major services online.

The current line of site development is a sort of stop-gap measure. The code that will run the site is not meant to provide the kinds of features being planned. That will come when the StartPoint WMS reaches Alpha. We will move the main OpenBrainstem website to StartPoint by that time and will continue to work towards moving all OpenBrainstem sites & services as soon as the code is capable of supporting them.

I will place a progress punch-list on the main OpenBrainstem webserver to track the progress of version 1 deployment. Take a look there for the current status of development until the main website goes live.

Enjoy!

OpenBrainstem provides resources for “Intelligent Open Source Software Engineering.” More on that will be posted on the About page of the main OpenBrainstem website, once I put the site together.

Currently, the webserver is operational (content pending), the email server is working perfectly & is secured (I still need to add SpamAssassin & ClamAV), MySQL is working (obviously, or you wouldn’t be reading this blog) and other services are coming along. I will create a matrix page on the OpenBrainstem main website listing all the services that will be provided and their states as they are deployed.

What about the blog sites? Well, I have chosen WordPress as the blogging software for http://blog.openbrainstem.net/. Since WordPress does not support multiple blogs (yet?), this means that each persons blog will be a separate installation. I will dedicate a database on the server to each member, but WordPress will only have access to it’s tables in each member’s database. Another great feature of WordPress is that it provides light CMS capabilities, making it rather easy to create pages. Each OpenBrainstem Member will have their own blog.

This is my first entry in my own blog. I know you are expecting me to tell you about myself and my hopes and dreams for this blog, but, I’m not going to. Not here, anyway. Instead, I will point you to two other resources; my Personal Website and my Guru Labs blog, where I have been making entries for a few months now. Not to worry, though; both of those resources will continue to be used, in addition to this new site.

Now, to start building some pages for this site. Enjoy!