vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org

[Dan Yasny]

----- Original Message -----
> From: "Karsten 'quaid' Wade" <kwade at redhat.com>
> To: "Andrew Cathrow" <acathrow at redhat.com>
> Cc: infra at ovirt.org
> Sent: Thursday, 23 August, 2012 11:43:22 PM
> Subject: Re: vdsm hooks pages at ovirt.org
> 
> On 08/23/2012 06:52 AM, Andrew Cathrow wrote:
> > 
> > 
> > ----- Original Message -----
> >> From: "Dave Neary" <dneary at redhat.com>
> >> 
> >> Just to make it clear: the idea of VDSM hooks is that they're
> >> downloadable pieces of software (if I understand correctly,
> >> they're usually shell or Python scripts), so in my mind a wiki
> >> isn't really appropriate - you want users to be able to upload new
> >> hooks, order search results based on ratings and/or download
> >> statistics for hooks, and features like tagging, ratings, comments
> >> on a hook and versioning are appropriate and useful.
> 
> ... which sounds like a new web service. I can see that vision, just
> figured the urgency meant we were going to take it in phases, e.g.:
> 
> 1. Get up a webpage that explains each hook & links to it directly +
> directions for setting up yum repo.
> 1.1 Do this quickly with WordPress, maybe get some design thoughts
> from
> Garrett.
> 2. Based on what we learn in doing phase 1, we can figure out the
> appropriate web service to grab, install, and run.
> 2.1 We definitely want to get UX and design help here.
> 
> What wasn't clear to me is if the hooks are specific to VDSM or
> generic
> for oVirt. In other words, are we ordering up:
> 
> vdsm-hooks.ovirt.org => ovirt.org/VDSM-hooks
> 
> or
> 
> hooks.ovirt.org => ovirt.org/hooks

IMO vdsm-hooks is better, because we already have libvirt hooks out there, and who knows what else will come up next.

> 
> (We'll do the Apache config to make it whatever, but fundamentally
> we're
> building a new tree at either /VDSM-hooks or /hooks as root, with a
> repo
> tree underneath to start, and sporting an eventual web service.)
> 
> > The hooks are delivered as RPMs -they need to be in a yum repo (for
> > fedora/EL) with web/wiki pages with help/docs/etc
> 
> OK, I can do the Apache work, create the directory tree, and order up
> DNS as soon as $someone_who_knows confirms that the generic word
> 'hooks'
> works, i.e. that we aren't tying up the incorrect namespace.
> 
> - Karsten
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Dan Yasny 
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