Re: next steps...

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On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:23:35 -0400
seth vidal <skvidal@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I really have no idea what this tool is purported to look like or
> who/what is working on it.
> 
> I thought formulas was about making it easy and simple for folks to
> try out software from fedora and to start developing using fedora.
> 
> Essentially, to make it easy to try out fedora for the use case where
> we matter - as a server or a devel platform.
> 
> I based my thoughts on my conversations with Kevin (who suggested
> formulas to begin with). So I don't think I'm out in left field here.

So, a bit of history here. (wow, we have history already?)

I originally came up with the idea around spins. spins are horrible and
I wanted to come up with a way to no longer have to create them. So,
take a electronics-lab user. Now they download a live image we have
created and distributed and install it. My thought was if there was a
way for them to just download ANY fedora install, install that then we
could have something that would install the electronics-lab packages,
etc and they would be set. 

My next immediate thought is that this could also be wonderfully handy
for lots of other cases where there wasn't enough energy for someone
to make a spin or where they were too niche. LAMP stack, openstack
compute node, the sky's the limit.  Many of our users would love ways
to install a base 'known good', 'best practices' setup and start from
there. 

> If that's not what formulas is then I'll just walk away from this list
> and formulas and do the stuff I care about on my own.

Please don't. 

> > (For a server-oriented GUI around this, you could consider something
> > like http://bitnami.org/stacks).
> 
> was really hoping for opensourceness but <shrug>
> 
> So to make sure I understand you - you're saying b/c bitnami exists we
> shouldn't bother working on anything like this for fedora?

Interesting. Had not seen that one before. 

In any case: 

Matthias: Can you elaborate on what you think we need to design into
things for the GUI side of things? I think we can be pretty agile here,
so while I understand the concern, I don't think we should wait until
we have a detailed design document to make anything at all. 

Some other questions: 

Single git tree? Or tree per formula? A single one could get
overlarge, multiple are harder to discover. 

kevin


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