On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 08:12:15AM -0400, Bryan Kearney wrote: > On 08/14/2012 08:00 AM, Hugh Brock wrote: > >(cc-ing katello-devel) > > > >On Tue, Aug 14, 2012 at 10:39:56AM +0100, Dmitri Dolguikh wrote: > >>On 13/08/12 10:26 PM, Matt Wagner wrote: > >>>Hi folks, > >>> > >>>I've been dwelling on user notifications a bit more. #3623 implies this > >>>functionality, and there are some comments visible here: > >>>https://www.aeolusproject.org/redmine/issues/3623 > >>> > >>>We have some licensing difference between our projects (grr!), > >>Not sure if this is a conversation for this mailing list, but was > >>there a conversation about licensing of projects and if we could all > >>use the same license? > >> > >>-d > > > >Yeah this is actually a good thing to bring up. > > > >Aeolus moved to the Apache license from GPL v2+about 18 months ago for > >various > >reasons -- Deltacloud is an Apache project, ASL seems more > >familiar/comfortable to the Ruby world, etc. > > > >If Katello upstream and associated projects are interested, I think it > >would be beneficial to have everyone on the Apache license (and > >obviously also make code sharing a bit simpler). Given that we can > >always ask Katello to dual-license code we want to share between > >projects, it's not that big of a deal either way. > > > >Take care, > >--Hugh > > > > Will talk about licensing. Is there a definitive "Why ASL is better? > Or is it just because Apache are bullies? Perhaps katello should > just go MIT?
IIUC ASL and MIT are ~ compatible so I think you could do either. The main benefits we were chasing with ASL were 1. fewer restrictions on re-use of 3rd party contributions, and 2. no requirement to release the source for the product. > On notifications, the other thing I would like to see (ideally a > shared service) is the ability to send email notificaitons out to > one or more users based on events. I would assume templating, > batching, and some sort of data injection. We have that on the > errata side (jomara is looking at it). Perhaps we can have folks > co-develop that part too. Yeah this is a very good idea I think. --H -- == Hugh Brock, [email protected] == == Engineering Manager, Cloud BU == == Aeolus Project: Manage virtual infrastructure across clouds. == == http://aeolusproject.org == "I know that you believe you understand what you think I said, but I’m not sure you realize that what you heard is not what I meant." --Robert McCloskey
