On Mon, 2006-12-04 at 12:09 -0500, Matthew Miller wrote: > On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 11:59:06AM -0500, David Zeuthen wrote: > > > > knows, maybe the system administrator can just tweak a few settings in > > > > the Fedora Directory Server and the changes gets propagated out to his > > > > servers. I really think that's the user experience we want; not some > > > > set of human-editable configuration files in /etc. > > > Who is "we" here, though? > > Should be evident: only speaking for myself, of course, hoping to > > influence the Fedora Project otherwise I wouldn't be posting this to the > > development list of the Fedora Project, would I? It's a meritocracy > > after all isn't it? > > No, I didn't mean that, sorry, and I definitely don't want to take the > conversation in *that* direction. > > I'm just not convinced that not being able to ssh in to a server and edit > some config files but rather have to figure out how to tweak the > policy-daemon-of-the-month is the user experience a large segment of "we" > wants at all. Human-editable config files are a huge strength. Using a > policy daemon may be part of the answer, but it should be able to get its > configuration from something that can be fixed with vi. > I definitely agree with this point of view. Jon -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
