Server WG Quick Vote: Firewall status API for rolekit

Kevin Fenzi kevin at scrye.com
Wed Oct 22 13:20:26 UTC 2014


+1 from me as well. 

kevin
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On Wed, 22 Oct 2014 08:31:36 -0400
Máirín Duffy <duffy at redhat.com> wrote:

> +1
> 
> On 10/22/2014 08:30 AM, Stephen Gallagher wrote:
> > The Beta release criteria for rolekit were largely copied from the
> > PRD and Technical Specification. One of these bits was this:
> >
> > "Release-blocking roles must be able to report their status in
> > regard to the system firewall as described in the technical
> > specification."
> >
> > The tech spec reads:
> >
> > "Roles will be required to support the following API:  ...  A query
> > interface providing metadata information about the role (not all
> > roles must implement all parts of this, bold lines are
> > mandatory):  ...  A list of the ports that the role operates on, as
> > well as data about whether those ports are currently firewalled."
> >
> > Unfortunately, rolekit does not currently have this capability.
> > Thomas and I decided during development to defer that (because this
> > information is available through the firewalld API and firewall-cmd
> > as well), but we forgot to communicate it to the rest of the Server
> > SIG.
> >
> > As a result, we (the Server WG) need to make a decision: Do we
> > believe that this firewall status API is important enough to slip
> > Beta. Because there's no chance we will be able to implement this
> > in time for tonight's compose.
> >
> > Proposal: The requirement to be able to list the role's related
> > firewall state is deferred to Fedora 22 and should be removed from
> > the release criteria.
> >
> > I am +1. Please vote immediately, as we do not have much time.
> >
> 

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