bcfg2

[David Lutterkort]

On Wed, 2006-12-20 at 21:42 +0100, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:53:09AM -0800, David Lutterkort wrote:
> > > and of course the concern I issued before is that it ties us into yet
> > > another scripting language for systems-maintenance tasks.
> > 
> > What exactly is that saying to people who use the ruby that we ship in
> > Fedora ? I understand that there is some concern that another language
> > might cause upgrade problems
> 
> No, that's not the issue Seth addresses (I think), and also no
> attribute against the quality of ruby as language and
> implementation.
> 
> The question is more like what language are the current and future
> maintainers of the fedora infrastructure comfortable with and would be
> able to do some bug hunting, fixing, changes if required. And of
> course any python solution will have a small bonus here.

That is understandable (though a little different from the reasons given
a few days ago here) - I hope that phear of ruby won't keep people from
having a look at puppet and comparing its features to bcfg2.

David