El vie, 17-04-2020 a las 10:34 +0200, aplanas escribió: > On 2020-04-17 09:51, Imobach González Sosa wrote: > > El vie, 17-04-2020 a las 09:28 +0200, Rodion Iafarov escribió: > > > Hi Imo, > > > As for the future, I have 2 ideas in mind. As yomi is out there > > > (https://github.com/openSUSE/yomi), maybe we should look into > > > developing > > > that solution further to replace autoyast. > > > > Sure, that's what I would expect to happen in the future. But as > > AutoYaST relies in YaST (and its proposals during installation), > > there > > might be some valid uses cases for AutoYaST even in the future. > > That is true. I want to comment random ideas here. > > Most of the complains about AutoYaST in relation with the management > of > the XML profile. Those are resolved in Yomi indirectly by having a > template engine. This engine is part of Salt (sort of), and can be > used > for the states but also for the pillars (that is the equivalent of > the > XML profile). So I wonder if adding ERB templates in the profile and > a > way to access to the public API of YaST can help here.
That's interesting. Actually, there is an ongoing discussion about our XML parser[1][2]. I have been thinking even about some features that our documentation team uses (like conditional rendering depending on the attribute values). > Another comment is that Yomi have a very early prototype that > translate > the XML profile into the YAML pillar > (https://github.com/openSUSE/yomi/blob/master/autoyast2yomi). There > are > clear limitations, basically because YaST is doing a *lot* more > things. I sounds interesting, I will have a look. > One last comment, and call me crazy : D, is that lately I am > thinking > more about the ownership of Yomi as an openSUSE project. With YaST > supporting Salt formulas and AutoYaST integration with Salt, I am > wondering if the natural living place of Yomi is as a YaST > subproject. > Like a SaltYaST, or AutoYaST-Salt or something. Well, I am not sure. At this point, I consider them as separate projects (using different approaches, constraints, etc.) but I see a lot of space for collaborating and sharing ideas. Thanks a lot for your feedback, Alberto! Regards, Imo [1] https://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2020-03/msg00036.html [2] https://lists.opensuse.org/yast-devel/2020-04/msg00002.html -- Imobach González Sosa YaST Team at SUSE LLC https://imobachgs.github.io/
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