Upcoming sprints

when: Saturday October 24, 2009 10AM CST-4PM CST (​when is this in my time zone?)
where: #bcfg2 on freenode, ANL

Ideas

Packaging

• Create RPMs/debs for Debian/Redhat/Ubuntu?/etc for _all_ necessary prereqs in 1.0
• Clean up CentOS/Suse spec files
• update Solaris packaging tech

Documentation Updates

• 0.9.6 to 1.0 complete migration guide
• Elaborate a little more on new SSL authentication options
• bcfg2-info docs and possibly indepth howto for developers
• migrate some of the user documentation over to ​http://en.flossmanuals.net/bin/view/BCFG2
• how-to for using bcfg2-info to debug

Features

• Packages support for zypper
• Packages support for gentoo (if necessary)
• Packages support for opensolaris IPS
• Improve plugin loading mechanism (to make out of tree plugins easy)
  • Maybe also improve plugin running mechanism (to enable user to control run order of plugins, run certain files that use a plugin before another plugin but others after it, etc - plausible use cases: template clients.xml and have it update before anything else runs; run the same probe before and after an action that verifies appropriate change was made by that action)
• Snapshots web interface

Tickets

• #622 (what to do about missing configuration files)
• #644 (generate user-friendly xml when server edits clients.xml)
• #645 (default attributes for Package elements)
• #665 (Update on-wiki man pages for Bcfg2 1.0)
• #682 (clearer SSL error messages)
• #683 (graphviz on CentOS)
• #686 (SSHBase traceback)

Done

• Ohai plugin
• showclient updates
• Better GroupPattern? example
• #690 (paranoid mode enhancements)
• bcfg2-info - implement new showclient that properly displays connector additional data

Future sprint ideas

• Do a pure user doc book sprint - the ​the Book Sprints book talks about how to go about running an "extreme book sprint" where a book is completed in around a week (the ​Command Line Intro book was mostly done in a weekend).