Re: [Linuxcoe-devel] GOSA and LinuxCOE

[Bruno C. <Bru...@hp...>]

Cat Okita said on Sun, Apr 05, 2009 at 12:09:18AM -0400:

>> 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...)

My "everything" is in fact everything you need to do network deployment.
So MAC addr + IP addr of the machine e.g. so that the static allocation
can be done automagically by a pathed LDAP DHCP. 

Also they have the boot line info so that the pxelinux.cfg/01-mad-addr
file could be generated on the fly by their LDAP aware TFTP server.

And as most of that is read operation, then perf should be pretty
correct (didn't try myself up to now).

Now I'm not an LDAP guru, but found the idea retty neat.

>> 0/ It's GPL
> Which GPL?  Does it play nicely with other licences?

Didn't had time to submit to fossology to check, but the official
license is GPL (https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/wiki/WikiStart) with
text of GPLv3 (seems to have been adopted in 2008:
https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/changeset/12202) but also of GPLv2
https://oss.gonicus.de/labs/gosa/browser/trunk/gosa-core/COPYING

>> 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?

Of course they have a VCS which is in their case SVN (fits nicely with
trac). So I plan on looking at making packages from SVN with
project-builder in order to ba able to follow closely the evolutions of
the project (at least for my side with MondoRescue).

> Could be interesting!

Indeed ;-)
Thabks for your feedback Cat !

Bruno.
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