Hi! We've been working for some time on improving current system configuration tools (system-config-* cleanup), some of these tools are going to be removed completely as there's no need for them now (autoconfiguration, obsoleted), some are really very outdated and unmaintained for some time. And of course - we have PolicyKit 1 now. What does this mean? Now we have nice opportunity to split user interface from actual backendn (and usually has to be runned under root account). And it would be nice to have some common interface sitting on DBus - it's where we aim with fmci - Fedora Management and Configuration Infrastructure (infrastructure as we already have a lot of services on DBus - so we'd like also to document these. It's more than just some interface). So the plan: first we want to collect input from user/devs - we don't want to do project for project because we like projects but useful one... We don't want to replace or change the current way - configuration files. Just high level access, not covering all functionality, to core system to be used by new GUIs, scripts etc. Next is to document the current state - for examples for network configuration there's NetworkManager, desktop team is working on user management tool and there are more projects, usually not connected etc. This is what has to be done first. Summary: * high level interface? * documentation of existing interfaces on one place * UI/backend splits (current s-c-* tools maintainers input needed) * coding the most important interfaces for F-14 So if you are interested in this project - suggestions, ideas, you'd like to participate in other ways (coding, etc...) - you're welcome on fmci-devel list! Reply here, ping me, kill me - (nearly) everything allowed! This projects needs interaction from more teams - base os, destkop, design etc... Thanks Jaroslav -- Jaroslav Řezník <jreznik@xxxxxxxxxx> Software Engineer - Base Operating Systems Brno Office: +420 532 294 275 Mobile: +420 602 797 774 Red Hat, Inc. http://cz.redhat.com/ -- devel mailing list devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://admin.fedoraproject.org/mailman/listinfo/devel
