Hello, all: I've been recently invited to join this list, seeing as I'm the original author of Glump (currently maintained by Seth), and also because I'm currently in a similar situation trying to figure out what to use for system config management here at McGill (I was recently made sysadmin again after being a PHP monkey for over a year). Now, I've not touched glump since mid-2005, and it's changed a bit since then. I do hate cfengine (probably party due to the way it's set up here), and I do not consider puppet to be a good alternative, mostly because it's "yet another config language" and because it's written in ruby. To use puppet, I'd have to learn "yet another config language" and ruby, which is prohibitively time-consuming. I've not yet had time to investigate bcfg2, but I will in the near future. However, I'm wondering if I could use and extend glump to do all I need -- will probably be the simplest. :) I'm currently wondering how much pain it would be to write a trac plugin that would do the same thing glump currently does. That should give me an infrastructure with an extensive access to SVN and db for versioning purposes, and built-in documentation/ticketing system. Since trac provides POST-handing, I could also do stuff like edit config files on the system to the point where they are working, and then "bless" them to be uploaded, committed to svn, and be immediately available to all members of that system group (unless that file is managed by a glump-like system). Now, this is pure vapourware. :) The only reason I'm interested in implementing this is because we already use trac extensively, and because writing plugins for it is pretty simple. I will probably start out with just writing a glump plugin that will use the svn repository to hold glump configs and sources, and then go on from there. If you guys are interested in glump, would you also be interested in a "trac-ified" glump? I plan to start working on this as soon as next week. Cheers and happy new year, -- Konstantin Ryabitsev Montréal, Québec
