Musing: Things we need (code-wise)

Ronelle Landy rlandy at redhat.com
Thu Sep 13 22:17:37 UTC 2012


> From: "Matt Wagner" <matt.wagner at redhat.com>
> To: aeolus-devel at lists.fedorahosted.org
> Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:23:10 PM
> Subject: Musing: Things we need (code-wise)
> 
> I was just going to clean a whiteboard, and got to a list I named
> "Things We Need." It started off as a couple of vague thoughts, and
> over
> time I've been adding things that I've heard people ask about only to
> be
> told that they didn't exist or didn't work.
> 
> Many of these are pretty open-ended, but I thought the list might
> lead
> to some valuable discussion, so here it is:
> 
> * A good glossary of terms, with examples / use cases. Beyond the
> fact
>  that I struggle with some of the terms myself sometimes, it would be
>  fantastic to be able to have something to point people to when they
>  ask
>  what realms are or why you would use Environments.
> 
> * API Documentation. (There is next to none today. I believe Katello
> is
>  using apipie for this.)
> 
> * A real API, that presents all the functionality that exists in our
> UI.

+1 here - IMHO, would make testing a bunch easier and more modular.

> 
> * Non-ugly Redmine. This is probably more of a pet peeve than
> something
>  that has much actual community value. But when I compare our wiki to
>  something like GitHub wikis, they just look so crisp, organized, and
>  easy to read. Also, a Markdown plugin since no I'm pretty sure no
>  one
>  in the world uses Textile except for whoever created Redmine.
> 
> * The ability to use multiple datacenters with one RHEV or vSphere
>  provider, or good documentation explaining how to handle this
>  (probably common) use case.
> 
> * Debian/Ubuntu guest support. (Bonus for being able to package and
> run
>  Aeolus for Debian/Ubuntu.)
> 
> * Support for OpenStack and Rackspace. (This may work now, at least
> to
>  some degree, but it needs testing and us to actually say that it
>  works.)

I have accounts on all of the above (Rackspace, HP's Openstack implementation and the new Red Hat Openstack lab). Let me know if you need access to these accounts for testing.

> 
> -- Matt
> 



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