GSoC Help: General Questions about the Project

[Anurag Malyala]

Firstly sorry for the off topic post, but I had to post it here as its 
specifically written with this project in mind.

1. I've read up about dsadm and the dsconf tools from the website and 
have an idea about their working, the question is what types of 
administrative tools are going to be made/modified in the project?

2. Are there any other tools that'll be involved in the project?

3. Can someone also provide some more detailed info on the project which 
extends beyond the description on the ideas page and the dsconf/adm 
pages? any link/text will suffice.

looking forward to contributing towards this project.

Anurag

[Mark Reynolds]

On 03/21/2017 12:25 PM, Anurag Malyala wrote:
> Firstly sorry for the off topic post, but I had to post it here as its
> specifically written with this project in mind.
> I've read up about dsadm and the dsconf tools from the website and
>
> have an idea about their working, the question is what types of
> administrative tools are going to be made/modified in the project?

AFAIK these tools are not fully functional yet.  William can comment on
this further.
> Are there any other tools that'll be involved in the project?

New tools?  Not that I know - just dsadm/dsconf.  Eventually we will be
replacing many of the perl scripts with python scripts - but there is no
timeframe set for this.
> Can someone also provide some more detailed info on the project
>
> which extends beyond the description on the ideas page and the
> dsconf/adm pages? any link/text will suffice.

What is the ideas page you are referring to?

We are planning on doing a full-blown web UI Admin console which will
replace the current java console(389-console), but that is probably a
year out from now.
> looking forward to contributing towards this project.

Contributions would be great!

Thanks,
Mark
> Anurag
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[Anurag Malyala]

> On 03/21/2017 12:25 PM, Anurag Malyala wrote:
> AFAIK these
> tools are not fully functional yet.  William can comment on
> this further.
> New tools? 
> Not that I know - just dsadm/dsconf.  Eventually we will be
> replacing many of the perl scripts with python scripts - but there is no
> timeframe set for this.
> What is the ideas page you are
> referring to?

The summer of code ideas page on the fedora GSoC wiki (https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Summer_coding_ideas_for_2017#389_Directory_Se...)
> We are planning on doing a full-blown web UI Admin console which will
> replace the current java console(389-console), but that is probably a
> year out from now.

Ah alright, I'm pretty good with Django as well, might be able to help out there as well after the GSoC has ended.
> Contributions would be
> great!
>
> Thanks,
> Mark

[William Brown]

On Tue, 2017-03-21 at 21:55 +0530, Anurag Malyala wrote:
> Firstly sorry for the off topic post, but I had to post it here as its 
> specifically written with this project in mind.
> I've read up about dsadm and the dsconf tools from the website and
>
> have an idea about their working, the question is what types of 
> administrative tools are going to be made/modified in the project?

We are looking mainly at dsconf to be able to alter plugin
configurations. DS provides most of it's functionality via plugins, and
we need a way to expose this for CLI tools.
> Are there any other tools that'll be involved in the project?

No, just dsconf and plugin management.
> Can someone also provide some more detailed info on the project which
>
> extends beyond the description on the ideas page and the dsconf/adm 
> pages? any link/text will suffice.

At the moment that's the most detail, there have been a number of other
write ups about this on this list. I think this is a good example:

https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[e-mail]....
> Ah alright, I'm pretty good with Django as well, might be able to help
> out there as well after the GSoC has ended.

We don't use django in the project sorry, we use python and in the
future, flask. :)

Hope that helps,