On Fri, Apr 8, 2011 at 9:12 AM, Stephen Potter <spp(a)unixsa.net> wrote:
On 4/7/2011 1:53 AM, brett lentz wrote:
> 2. An alternative to the CLI. Some people just like WebUIs and prefer
> to click a web page rather than use a CLI. That's fine; there's
> nothing inherently wrong with that preference. So, the WebUI can allow
> people to provision systems via WebUI.
This description seems rather dismissive of the WebUI and completely
dismisses some of the major use cases of the Cobbler UI including the
ability to scale and separation of duties.
I believe that was included in my third use case. ;-)
I was actually re-writing the WebUI to automatically deal with our
options (instead of having to worry about everyone properly adding them
to ksmeta line directly). I would have loved for the WebUI to be more
of a first class citizen and more easily extensible so that I didn't
have to start from scratch and could have just made local modifications
to the existing interface.
Overall, it sounds like we're saying many of the same things, just
saying it differently.
Is your custom WebUI something suitable for merging into mainline
Cobbler? It sounds like it could be useful to a wider audience.
---Brett.