On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 13:46, Brian (bex) Exelbierd <bexelbie@redhat.com> wrote:
On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:44 PM Stephen John Smoogen <smooge@gmail.com> wrote:
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> On Wed, 17 Jul 2019 at 09:22, Neal Gompa <ngompa13@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> On Wed, Jul 17, 2019 at 6:46 AM Pierre-Yves Chibon <pingou@pingoured.fr> wrote:
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>> There are two issues to unpack here:
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>> 1. We use a weird custom backend and custom protocol extensions.
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>> This should definitely be replaced if it makes sense. It’s more urgent
>> now that RHEL 6 is going EOL next year, and FAS 2 is still a Python
>> 2.6 application. FAS 3 *would* have fixed it, but interest by the FAS
>> developers died a while ago…
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>> Naturally, the replacement is equally in a poor state, but may have
>> some legs someday: https://github.com/fedora-infra/noggin
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>> 2. Ipsilon development was only considered important as part of being
>> tech preview in RHEL and now it’s not.
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>> There are some major problems here. First of all, Ipsilon development
>> has been gated by a single person. That person also seems to have
>> trouble making time to review pull requests. There has been interest
>> from the broader community about using and contributing to Ipsilon,
>> since unlike Keycloak, it is written in an accessible language
>> (Python).
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>> Getting Ipsilon to Python 3 would be enough for me to get started on
>> bootstrapping some of the other interested parties onto Ipsilon, and
>> hopefully give us a more sustainable community long-term.
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>> A final note here, I’m generally disappointed in how inaccessible
>> infrastructure resources are to the broader community, and while a
>> community OpenShift will alleviate some of that, I’m concerned that
>> more sophisticated services would still require the crap workflow we
>> have now for community vs infra. I’ve had thoughts about how to make
>> that better on a broader basis, but that’s probably for another time…
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> I don't know what is worse.. that if we try to improve things by saying we can't maintain everything we are crap, or if we don't try to improve things by maintaining stuff poorly we are crap. Do you want to beat us in the morning or evening or just both times so you can work out your frustrations on how badly we do stuff?

Stephen, I respect your read and interpretation of what is written by
Neal above.  I also understand your lived experience.


Thank you for your line, but you don't have to respect my comments as mine showed little respect to Neal or the list. I should not have sent it as is, I should not have flown off the handle, and I apologize for the comments.  

 
I think what Neal is getting at is that we don't have any knowledge
yet about how the services we are looking for others (not infra team
members) to run will be managed.  The current system is less than
desirable and what Neal is referencing.  It'd be great to get more
detail about how we are enabling these apps to be run by others so we
can see what is possible.

regards,

bex
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