On Wed, 13 Mar 2013 19:44:56 -0400 seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> 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). kevin
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