It seems like I haven't given this list an update about coming 2.0 release recently. This release is looking *sharp*!
We have a new web application that can perform many more actions from the web app -- not just syncs, but imports, replicates, reposyncs, and so forth. It looks a bit shinier too -- it can also edit snippets, and I suspect it will also be able to edit templates (like those in /etc). It's nice. We also have a new XMLRPC-remoted command line, which right now only works on 127.0.0.1, but that is temporary. The advantage here is that it can start up in a bare minimum amount of time, even if you have 30,000+ systems in Cobbler. Why? Because it's connecting remotely to Cobblerd. This means you can call /usr/bin/cobbler in a loop repeatedly if you want to script it with bash, and it's a lot faster than it was before. You don't have to use the API for simple scripts. My goals for getting 2.0 out are pretty simple: --- finish making sure all of the old functions can be used in the new command line --- web application testing --- cli testing --- fix the SHA import problem with Fedora from older platforms (simple) --- rearchitect "cobbler replicate" to teach it about UIDs and be faster We have culled the following two features so I can focus and we have more bandwidth to work on the core app: -- Deployment/management of VMs via the web interface (using SSH/koan/func/etc) ... moved to a future release? -- Network objects ... moved to a feature release? If this is the "XMLRPC-ize everything/refactoring/speed/shiny-webapp" release, the next release will be the "killer features" release by knocking out more items like the above. I can't give a date yet, but it shouldn't be terribly long now... If you have an interest in helping work on this release, or seeing what is there so far (warning: don't run in production!), you can check out the cobbler-devel mailing list and the "master" branch of the cobbler git tree. Thanks everyone! --Michael _______________________________________________ cobbler mailing list [email protected] https://fedorahosted.org/mailman/listinfo/cobbler
