On Thu, 14 Mar 2013 11:59:22 -0400 (EDT) Matthias Clasen <mclasen@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > If you want formulas to be usable from a UI, there should be > sufficient metadata available to display formulas in a meaningful > way, and it must be available ahead of time, without downloading > megabytes of data on the spot. In general, there should be no network > activity unless the user explicitly asked for it. ok. So, this is talking about the case of the UI being a dedicated GUI app that the end user runs. What about moving as much of that as we can to a web backend/site interface a user interacts with via browser? That would require network, but then the GUI app doesn't need to search or do all those things, all it needs to be is a layer between the (text only) ansible playbook and the user. Ie, a 'ansible-gui'. > The api needs to be non-blocking, and e.g. allow searches without > taking a bit lock that blocks everything else. If it's a web interface we don't need to worry about that... > Ideally, the should be a way to obtain progress information for > long-lasting operations. ok. > It would also be good to design this as a system service, with a way > to authorize privileged operations, while allowing read access to > everybody. Sure, so what do you think of: Website: * Search and get info about playbooks * Rate playbooks * Download playbooks * Submit new playbooks * Report bugs Gui App: * Shows downloaded playbooks/metadata * Can optionally update them (git pull) * lets user run them (If they have required system permissions) * Asks user input optionally for any variables in the playbook * Reports status to use of playbooks running. * Possibly shows a log or history of formulas run. A command line app could do the same things (or much the same thing) as the GUI one. In the mean time I don't see the problem with working on the playbook level, and we can adjust the metadata required or the interface they provide to the gui app/command line app or website backend. Once we have some playbook/formulas in place, they can be directly usefull for command line people, and we can start building the backend and frontend from that? Thoughts? kevin
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