Other than the documentation being out of date and the PXE Generation script being utterly nonfunctional out of the box and requiring X for the config scripts and the idea of having to turn on rsync on every machine on my LAN being a little scary, it's a good idea.
I'd offer to help but I'm still a novice when it comes to python, I'm not sure my code would stand up. However, when I complete my current project (getting your builds of openldap/openssl/postgresql working together smoothly), Stateless is next on my list which puts it about mid-January.
I do hope you have people work on it, the configuration process needs extensive testing, the documentation needs to be updated WITH the code and the little bugs in the process could be worked out - there are complications inherent in a lot of the dependencies (ldap, dhcp) that would take minds much sharper than mine to fix, but I see working on the scripts as they are as being a good challenge as I learn more python.
I do appreciate redhat's support of these projects, I've learned a lot about linux and computers in general by working with your OSes over the past 6 years. Like a lot of people I just wish I could devote a little more of my workday to making Fedora better, but every time Lotus or another application is set to 'RHEL only,' Fedora has less and less opportunity in the workplace to justify people spending work-time on it, I end up spending time I could be working on these projects on finding the right compat-libs for Lotus, for Oracle, for SAS and SPLUS. Having community-developed support for thosewould be a useful project in its own right.
Jason
Carlos Knowlton wrote:
Havoc Pennington wrote:
On Wed, 2004-12-22 at 17:00 +0000, Peter Schobel wrote:I hope they do continue it. I think this project really has promise! I'm not much of a developer, but I'm a willing tester, and happy to help out where I can!
I have seen next to nothing on this list recently from stateless linux developers
What is the status of this project? Is it in active development?
It isn't in active development right now; the initial release was a prototype to gather data on what people thought of the idea.
Now we are looking at the feedback and looking at overall Red Hat priorities and have to decide whether to create a project team to continue with stateless Linux (and related technology). If we do decide to continue then there will probably be a number of people working on it.
Of course nothing is stopping others outside Red Hat from working on it, would love to see it.
Havoc
Carlos
