On Wednesday 25 February 2009 05:43:16 am Arthur Pemberton wrote: Hi, > And actually implemented it better than I had in mind. > > My name is Arthur Pemberton, and I was just browsing through the > Google Summer of Code 2008. And it looks a lot like this idea that I > had in mind, except that i did actually start coding it, except for > starting a file tree [1]. ? > > So I am curious as to if working on this to kind of merge in my > (incomplete) idea would be a welcomed GSoC project. > > So here is the idea I had: > > First of all, I named my idea LiCo (short for Linux Commander). The > idea was to make point and click admin types comfortable with managing > groups of machines (so forgive any proceeding Windows analogies). I > was going to create a UI, the only part I actually started, with PyQt > and use python over SSH to command n number of Linux machines to do > simple operations: 'update machine', 'sync time', 'copy remote file' Func uses XML-RPC over SSL which is kind of better than ssh because it already does all the serialization things between end points. There is already a UI (web-based) FuncWeb written in Python and uses Func API directly. However a UI written in PyQT maybe interesting also u can help improving the current one. Also u can add new modules to Func as u said above 'update machine', 'sync time', 'copy remote file' (i think we have them) if u want to make some contribution. Current modules are mostly written for fedora,redhat machines having different modules for other platforms is also and interesting idea. > > A typical use case would be: > 1) browse through machines and machine groups > 2) choose machines machine groups (list of machines would be flattened > internally) > 3) Create a batch of actions to run against those machines > 4) Hit the 'Run' button > 5) Operations begin executing in the background (probably with the > ability to attach a viewing window to any machine) The Funcweb already has them ;) > > Features I had in mind: > * plugin architecture (each plugin would handle its actions, and draw > any required dailog boxes) > * capable of handling valid combinations of: password login, key > login, root login (sudo, su -) > * be able to organize machines into non-exclusive groups > The Funcweb already has them ;) except those : > * run well across Windows, Linux and MacOS > * could be "compiled" with py2exe for Windows. > One significant differences between my idea and Func's actual > implemntation (if I've read correctly) is that I was hoping to use ssh > only, so the controlled machine would need no additional software, but > I am not even yet sure how feasible that is so Func's approach seems > more realistic. There was an idea of having a pluggable structure for supporting different kind of conenctionns in Func (like QMF). That maybe a point u can play on if interested. > > Anyways, if the devs are interested and willing to mentor this as a > GSoC project let me know. If not I'll be looking through your code and > see how things are done as 'LiCo' was to be a long term learning > project for me -- so your code would be very educational. I'm not a core developer but last year i was in GSOC2008 and spent some great time with Func and its developers so, it maybe better to contribute to Func project instead of reinventing the things ... _______________________________________________ Func-list mailing list Func-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/func-list
