Re: [Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting

[Mark Burgess]

> Mark, can you speak on what your design goals are?  Should our first
> conclusion be what role we specifically see cfengine playing?
> 

Cfengine should be as plug'n'play as possible, with as much flexibility
as possible. It shouldn't be for gratuitous monitoring -- it should keep
as quiet as a mouse and work as autonomously as possible.

See

http://www.cfengine.org/Cfengine2/1.html


>> > I think it would be very worthwhile for some of us to spend time
>> > combing the list archives and figure out what people consistently
>> > have to workaround, and then find ways to design those problems out.
>>
>> I have had this same idea so I could provide some help there, but I
>> think we need to define exactly what is 'cfengine' or what we want it
>> to be as I asked a few paragraph before.
> 
> Do we just wait for Mark to speak up at this point?  Can we take an
> unoffical poll?  Everyone, what role do you see cfengine as fulfilling
> in your network?  Framework, tool, or somewhere in between?  Where is
> it now?
> 
> For me, I would like it to be a framework, but it's more of a tool
> right now.

Luke, I don't understand you. In what way is cfengine NOT a framework?
What do you think is missing?

M

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