Upcoming sprints

when: March 13, 2010 10AM CST-4PM CST (​when is this in my time zone?)
where: #bcfg2 on freenode, ANL

Ideas

It will be useful to keep in mind the following minimum Python versions when using built-in python modules:

Client: python 2.3
Server: python 2.4

Documentation Updates

In general, we should try and flesh out the sphinx docs as much as possible. A good start would be getting all the unsorted documents transferred over to sphinx.

Other things that are still needed:

• Elaborate a little more on new SSL authentication options
• bcfg2-info docs and possibly an in depth howto for developers
• how-to for using bcfg2-info to debug
• Update the CentOS how to which is horribly out of date (still using 0.9.6)
  • Use the EPEL packages at ​http://download.fedora.redhat.com/pub/epel/5/x86_64/epel-release-5-3.noarch.rpm for pre-reqs

Features

• SSL CA plugin (maybe come up with a design specification?)
• Mode similar to Chef's solo mode (​http://wiki.opscode.com/display/chef/Shef)
• Document Hostbase? plugin and determine if it works with the latest django
• Services: add ability to specify custom restart attribute in 'supervised' mode (make sure process is running and don't restart if it is)

Tickets

• #733 - Packages support for modifying auto update
• #710 - Output multiple variables from a single probe
• #770 - Fix snapshots postgres compatibility
• #754 - plugin for checking out code from some sort of VCS

per-user items (so we don't duplicate effort)

solj

• Add support for per-plugin info/info.xml files
• #816 - Upstart script for lucid (+ client tool if needed)
• #773 - Allow for APT client tool customization

Done

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).