> From: "Matt Wagner" <[email protected]> > To: [email protected] > Sent: Thursday, September 13, 2012 5:23:10 PM > Subject: Musing: Things we need (code-wise) > > I was just going to clean a whiteboard, and got to a list I named > "Things We Need." It started off as a couple of vague thoughts, and > over > time I've been adding things that I've heard people ask about only to > be > told that they didn't exist or didn't work. > > Many of these are pretty open-ended, but I thought the list might > lead > to some valuable discussion, so here it is: > > * A good glossary of terms, with examples / use cases. Beyond the > fact > that I struggle with some of the terms myself sometimes, it would be > fantastic to be able to have something to point people to when they > ask > what realms are or why you would use Environments. > > * API Documentation. (There is next to none today. I believe Katello > is > using apipie for this.) > > * A real API, that presents all the functionality that exists in our > UI.
+1 here - IMHO, would make testing a bunch easier and more modular. > > * Non-ugly Redmine. This is probably more of a pet peeve than > something > that has much actual community value. But when I compare our wiki to > something like GitHub wikis, they just look so crisp, organized, and > easy to read. Also, a Markdown plugin since no I'm pretty sure no > one > in the world uses Textile except for whoever created Redmine. > > * The ability to use multiple datacenters with one RHEV or vSphere > provider, or good documentation explaining how to handle this > (probably common) use case. > > * Debian/Ubuntu guest support. (Bonus for being able to package and > run > Aeolus for Debian/Ubuntu.) > > * Support for OpenStack and Rackspace. (This may work now, at least > to > some degree, but it needs testing and us to actually say that it > works.) I have accounts on all of the above (Rackspace, HP's Openstack implementation and the new Red Hat Openstack lab). Let me know if you need access to these accounts for testing. > > -- Matt >
