[Freeipa-devel] [PATCH 0072] Provide ipa-client-advise tool

[Dmitri Pal]

On 06/19/2013 12:46 PM, Alexander Bokovoy wrote:
> (please trim conversations)
>
> On Wed, 19 Jun 2013, Tomas Babej wrote:
>>>>> So if I want an advise about Solaris 11 client configuration would it
>>>>> look like this?
>>>>>
>>>>> ipa-advise config --client --distro=solaris  --version=11
>>>>>
>>>>> or
>>>>>
>>>>> ipa-advise client-config-solrais-11
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>> The latter.
>>>>
>>>> Tomas
>>> My point is that if the topics would be long and there will be many of
>>> them we should have a naming convention for them.
>>>
>>
>> Sure, but I am not so certain whether we can come up with anything
>> reasonable, that can capture all the use
>> cases and be simple enough at the same time.
> Making plugins to provide their activities named as
>
>         <action>-<system>-<variant>
>
> will make it easy to group and use:
>
>    ipa-advise config-solaris11-padl
>       ....    config-freebsd7-padl
>       ....    config-aix63-native
>       ....    list
>       ....    help
>       ....    setup-ipa-trust2ad
>       ....    setup-ipa-dnsdelegation
>
> and so on.
>
>    ipa-advise list

Yes this is exactly what I was talking about.
Should be a part of design page in the naming convention section IMO.

>
> would show all plugins (filtering itself, i.e. list and help plugin)
> with their short descriptions.
>
>> E.g., somebody might provide a plugin to generate records for DNS
>> zone delegation (using Petr's idea here). Such a plugin does not
>> really fit into client|server-os-version schema.
>>
>> We can probably start naming plugins in a fairly systematic way, and
>> ensure that we will not create mess in the future via review process.
> Sure.
>
>


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Thank you,
Dmitri Pal

Sr. Engineering Manager for IdM portfolio
Red Hat Inc.


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