On Mon, 4 Feb 2008, Michael DeHaan wrote:
Hello Func community,
Adrian, Seth, and I were just talking with Karl Wirth (FreeIPA) about Func
and certmaster. Certmaster is a general use way of distributing certs and
has advantages for use beyond Func. Since FreeIPA wants a similar
mechanism, it seems to be a good idea to share.
Basically we think it would be a good idea to open up certmaster and make
certmaster it's own project on Fedora Hosted. As with Func, it will be
available in Fedora/EPEL under the same license as Func (GPLv2+), and of
course it will still be a community project so everyone here will still be
able to work on it.
The idea behind this is lots of projects want ways to distribute certs, but
not all users want to run Func (though we think that would great if they did
of course!).
As a side effect of moving it over, certmaster can get some upgrades such as
auto-renew support and optional (default: off) ability to store certs in
LDAP, etc. We'll also hopefully have a lot more really sharp security guys
working on it :) So, no, you will not need to install FreeIPA to use Func,
or Func to use FreeIPA ... but both will likely have a dependency on
certmaster -- which seems reasonable.
We aim to keep complexity of Func setup the same as it is now (that's one of
Func's main selling points) and want to coordinate with the certmaster
project to ensure Func doesn't get broken. Keeping existing configs working
is important, and if we do this right, setup instructions will be the same or
change only minimally. We also intend to use the same mailing list for
certmaster as this project, so people don' thave to join other lists.
Before we enact this split, does anyone have any comments about this plan?
Thanks,
/me applauds.
Small tools that do small jobs extremely well, and connect to one another
extremely simply. That was the point of func in the first place.
Although the mailing list stuff might be a bit confusing. If certmaster
is going to be its own project, shouldn't it have its own list?
--g
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Greg DeKoenigsberg
Community Development Manager
Red Hat, Inc. :: 1-919-754-4255
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...from him much shall be asked"
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