[Container-tools] Proposal for projectatomic/adb-utils Git repo

Lalatendu Mohanty lmohanty at redhat.com
Mon Jan 25 12:03:19 UTC 2016


On 01/25/2016 05:14 PM, Praveen Kumar wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 4:22 PM, Lalatendu Mohanty <lmohanty at redhat.com> wrote:
>> On 01/22/2016 03:38 PM, Praveen Kumar wrote:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> We need an RPM to contain the utility scripts that drive the ADB.
>>> These scripts do things like certificate generation.  This is also
>>> where the service files for the various orchestrators will live.
>>>
>>> To make it easy for downstream maintainers and to assist in builds, we
>>> propse that a new git repo be started under projectatomic.  The repo
>>> will be named *adb-utils* and will have the same maintainers as the
>>> ADB.
>>>
>>> This repo will allow us to clean up the Kickstart files for the ADB
>>> and create an easier to maintain script repo.
>>>
>>> Any suggestions/concerns?  Any objections?  If not, I suggest we
>>> accept lazy consensus on Wednesday Jan 27 at 0000 UTC.
>>>
>> The only objection is the name, the prefix adb makes it not convenient when
>> used with CDK. It will confuse the user with respect to what is ADB vs CDK.
> It will go as package so in downstream we have dist-git as 'cdk-utils'
> but code-base will be same like we do for kickstart files so that
> should not be a problem/confusion.
>

Yes, I thought of that. But the model does not work well for Vagrant 
plugins e.g. vagrant-adbinfo.

>> I can see we see that we will have this issue in future too e.g. when ever
>> we write a Vagrant plugin or a new package for ADB.
> Yep we always have naming issues and naming-war still on :)
>
>> I would suggest to give a generic name e.g. developer-bundle-utils ( I think
>> I am terrible with names :) )  or something better.
> My vote is still for 'adb-utils' (developer-bundle-utils is too
> generic and not provide much background about project) but we can
> discuss it in Wednesday meeting.
>
>




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