Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] GOSA and LinuxCOE

[Cat O. <ca...@re...>]

On Sun, 5 Apr 2009, Bruno Cornec wrote:
> Gosa is a framework providing a management Web interface for users,
> groups, systems, ... based around an LDAP server. Everything is stored
> in LDAP, making it easy for inter-systems communication and queries +
> allows easy HA and replication.
> Demo at https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/wiki/demo

I'll say straight up that I haven't gone to look at this yet, but I'm
wondering how much of 'everything' is stored in LDAP.  I've had rather
poor results with storing 'large' datasets in LDAP (vs storing things
like users, groups, small configlets...)

> They work mostly with Debian, and this system has been developed for the
> city of Munich (DE) and supports thousands of systems.

Nice!

> Benoit kindly offered 3 hours of his time to explain me how all that was
> working, and I really think that my Dploy.org idea should migrate to
> that platform as:
>
> 0/ It's GPL

Which GPL?  Does it play nicely with other licences?

> 1/ They have a nice Web interface, much better than what I ever could
> code (written in PHP + Templates).
> 2/ They have a plugin interface so making addition of services as easy
> as possible.
> 3/ They are using perl for GOSA-SI plugins
> 4/ They do not have an imaging solution. So I could plug Mondorescue.
> 5/ They have support for Linux, LTSP and Windows deployment but using
>   only FAI (Linux) and opsi (Windows)
> 6/ They use trac for their infra (I love ;-)

*grin* Quite!

> 7/ They plan on an OCS Inventory integration
> 8/ They even have packages (deb and rpm)

Hm... how do they handle patching and revision diffs?

> We could work with them to integrate LinuxCOE as is, and benefit from
> the nice Web interface they have on top of LinuxCOE.
>
> Then I think that LinuxCOE could provide code to enhance their project,
> allowing them to have native deployment support for RPM based distro.
> They already have a profile notion, not sure how that's overlaping.
> They do not have replay feature.
>
> What do you think ?

Could be interesting!

cheers!
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