Hi All, I'm sorry if I offended anyone by saying that Foreman solves all of puppet problems, I mainly meant that there are areas which puppet simply doesn't deal with, but we as sysadmins need to.
My goal with Foreman is to make our life easier, Foreman would be extremely difficult to made if Puppet was not around, and I'm grateful for puppet and RL. As far it goes to the history, Foreman is inspired on another tool which I was responsible for and was developed internally for the company I work for in 2008, I've tried hard to opensource that tool, but once I've failed I've started rewriting foreman from scratch on my free time. I spend a lot of my time on Foreman, mainly because I wanted to contribute something back, I truly believe in opensource, and for the first time, was able to release something that people might find useful. Our initial goals (RL and myself) were to share the code, however we've learned that there is a mismatch between what RL needs, and what I can deliver, RL need to make money, while I didn't feel its right that in order to do opensource development I need to get a lawyer. saying that, I would love to find a way to share/merge, I do know that there are areas, where we have different aim - while that could be probably solved with a plugins architecture, at this point of time, I'll be happy to integrate foreman, share code, libs or what ever that we all benefit from our strong community. I've developed foreman to be useful for me, hoping others will find it useful too, I've been doing my best to add feature requests from the community, so it fits to us all, at any point of time I didn't aim to take away clients from RL. Not everyone needs to use foreman, but one of its goal is to make puppet more accessible for others (e.g. someone mentioned something about SSL hell recently? ;)) and at the end act as best practice approach to system administrations tasks around puppet. Michael - I'm sure you didnt mean any harm, it just sounded wrong, I'm sure that no one at RL wants to make its community members feel bad about just using puppet (because its so great) and not contribute code, and for the ones who do contribute code, if it doesn't fit exactly to RL profitable model, there must be other alternatives. Ohad -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Users" group. To post to this group, send email to puppet-us...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to puppet-users+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/puppet-users?hl=en.
