next steps...

seth vidal skvidal at fedoraproject.org
Thu Mar 14 07:11:48 UTC 2013


On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 21:32:19 -0600
Kevin Fenzi <kevin at scrye.com> wrote:

> On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:44:56 -0400
> seth vidal <skvidal at fedoraproject.org> wrote:
> 
> > so I know the idea of formulas as a way of describing a desktop or
> > an app on the desktop is..... exciting or something to people but
> > it's not what I originally cared about when I heard your idea for
> > formulas.
> > 
> > I was thinking of an easy-to-follow thing a person could download to
> > quickly deploy fedora, in amazon or rackspace or google compute
> > engine, with a particular service or development environment setup
> > and ready to run.
> 
> Sure. I think this is a good use case and an easier one... 
> 
> > 1. so you checkout our git tree
> > 2. you install/download ansible
> > 3. you run: ansible-playbook formula-1/go.yml
> > 4. you enjoy your resuling instance all ready and configured as we
> > described
> > 
> > maybe step 2.5 is you change some config values in the git tree or
> > tell it where to find your keys for aws or rackspace.
> 
> Or the playbook asks you things or you pass it vars=defaults or the
> like, yeah. 
> 
> > but in short - we run these things to let people use fedora for
> > something, probably in the cloud, probably right away.
> > 
> > 
> > Rather than worry about guis and all the overhead and assumptions we
> > have to make with that - would you be interested in seeing if we can
> > get some basic traction just w/the above?
> 
> Absolutely. 
> 
> I think some parts are common to all setups... git repo setup, signed
> commits, guidelines about what a formula can/can't do, etc. 
> But we could quite possibly focus on the cloud/non interactive side of
> things first and build that up and then look at adding other stuff
> later around that. (ratings, gui, etc). 
> 

So here's a simple one. I spent the evening working with sam on this
one:

https://github.com/skottler/ttrss-ansible

setup tt-rss on an f18 instance.

We need more structure so this can be more readily imported - but it's
the basic idea.

On top of f18, deploy a thing, and make it available.

-sv


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