Re: Some semi-architectural things to think about

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On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 07:45 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> Scott Henson wrote:
> > seth vidal wrote:
> >> On Tue, 2008-01-15 at 19:39 -0500, Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >>> Michael DeHaan wrote:
> >>>> So, continuing from FudCON's hackfest ideas, I think these are the 
> >>>> biggies in terms of "func core" kind of stuff to get done.   
> >>>> Thoughts?  I've added the missing ones to the ideas page.  There 
> >>>> are a lot of other expansion/module ideas, but this is probably the 
> >>>> (larger) stuff that is perhaps missing.   However some of it is 
> >>>> pretty much optional too.
> >>>>
> >>>> * minion-to-minion + ACLs (and of course docs on how to do this) 
> >>>> .... a really neat feature
> >>>>
> >>>> * multiple-overlords/cert-sharing ... seemed to be requested a lot 
> >>>> at talk
> >>>>
> >>>> * overlord-delegation (for network reasons, but also maybe 
> >>>> efficiency.... there's a government app that basically did a tree 
> >>>> like fan-out for this).
> >>>>
> >>>> * figuring out how to loosen up the permissions of caller (making 
> >>>> sure things are accessible by TurboGears if it opens up a Client() 
> >>>> object).  Currently it just needs the /etc/pki/func and 
> >>>> /var/lib/func stuff.    This is probably not too much of a problem 
> >>>> but worth talking about.
> >>>>
> >>>> * Groups?   We had talked about doing this in the WebUI and CLI 
> >>>> seperately but we could perhaps actually make it part of the Func 
> >>>> client API seperately and save a local DB so that could be 
> >>>> shared?   Thoughts?
> >>> By DB, I mean of course something like bsddb or even a config file, 
> >>> not an actual DB :)
> >>>
> >>
> >> for the love of all that is good and holy not bsddb.
> >>
> >> -sv
> >
> > I would vote for a python ConfigParser config file or use SQLAlchemy 
> > to put it
> > into a sqlite db by default.  It would allow the crazies to put it in 
> > a real
> > db if they felt the need.
> >
> Groups would be small, config parser would fly and would still be human 
> editable.   People really like things that are human editable.
> 

python-iniparse might be worth looking at. We're using it in yum in lieu
of config parser b/c it has writing functions worth looking at.

-sv


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