Feedback wanted: Fedora Formulas

[Pete Travis]

On Jan 9, 2013 12:32 PM, "Nathanael D. Noblet" <nathanael at gnat.ca> wrote:
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> On 01/09/2013 12:26 PM, Seth Vidal wrote:
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>> On Wed, 9 Jan 2013, Kevin Fenzi wrote:
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>>>> One of the big questions to answer is distribution. I can see good
>>>> arguments on the one hand distributing formulas via RPM and on the
>>>> other having an official Git repository for them.
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>>> Yep. I am torn here too. rpms get us a lot, but are also inflexable in
>>> other ways. :)
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>> Let me make an argument against rpms here.
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>> Ansible doesn't require anything on the local system to run a playbook.
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>> That's one of its virtues.
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>> For a user if we just use a git repo then the user doesn't have to
>> modify their system in order to use the tools to change their system.
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>> There is a certain amount of elegance in that not to mention just not
>> being annoying.
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> It also allows a user to take a recipe, fork, modify, improve etc and
test it without necessarily knowing anything about rpm... or being a
packager in the packager group etc. Having a fedora account etc...
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> Nathanael d. Noblet
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I really like this idea.  A curated, task oriented system helps
inexperienced users get it right and advanced users work more efficiently.
The concept is highly marketable. Properly maintained, we could save scores
of users from the scourge of outdated, inaccurate, or potentially harmful
procedurals that a broad Google search might dig up.

With that in mind, I have to disagree with the comments above. Presenting
this as a playground for inexperienced users negates the benefit of
curation and compounds the very problems I think it should solve. Not that
the functionality shouldn't be there, of course, but the presentation
should stress quality over extensibility.

--Pete
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