vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org

[Mike Burns]

On Mon, 2012-08-20 at 07:03 -0400, Dan Yasny wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> I am working on a project to make the existing vdsm hooks more
> accessible and available.
> 
> So in very short, for those who do not know, a vdsm hook is a script
> that can be placed on ovirt hosts, and which will do some custom
> actions, vdsm cannot do out of the box. 
> 
> We have quite a few already in the repositories at
> http://gerrit.ovirt.org/gitweb?p=vdsm.git;a=tree;f=vdsm_hooks;h=6f33db4079b250336fa1369771a63dce585e1d81;hb=HEAD and the vdsm engineers are starting to turn these into proper RPMs and push them into fedora, and then EPEL repos, however, for these to be consumable, we also will need a description page for each hook, somewhere under ovirt.org/hooks or hooks.ovirt.org, where every hook can be downloaded, and have a description, version compatibility and a use case described.
> 
> If you use gnome-shell, it would be something like
> extensions.gnome.org, but of course, not quite the same, as we tend to
> a different kind of user.
> 
> I would like to find out what will be required to do this, as soon as
> possible

Cool stuff.  

Creating ovirt.org/hooks is pretty easy, hooks.ovirt.org is slightly
more complex (but doable).  

The big questions:
* Who is doing the original design and content seeding? 
* Who will own keeping things up to date going forward?  

It might make sense to initially put the content you want on a wiki
page, and then transition it to a static page long term.  

As for the backend yum repo, that is pretty easily accomplished.  We can
simply have a separate area in the releases for current vdsm hooks.  I
would assume that we'll want to keep that relatively stable and only
update manually when new versions are released.  We can also have
something like an "unstable" repo where nightly builds of the plugins
are uploaded.

Mike

> 
> Thanks,
> Dan Yasny
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