From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Mar 3 05:06:51 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA06245 for freebsd-hackers-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 05:06:51 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from time.cdrom.com (root@time.cdrom.com [204.216.27.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id FAA06192; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 05:06:44 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jkh@time.cdrom.com) Received: from time.cdrom.com (jkh@localhost.cdrom.com [127.0.0.1]) by time.cdrom.com (8.8.8/8.6.9) with ESMTP id FAA09325; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 05:05:46 -0800 (PST) To: Andrzej Bialecki cc: "Jordan K. Hubbard" , rssh@grad.kiev.ua, hackers Subject: Re: A web-based FreeBSD configuration tool. In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 03 Mar 1998 11:27:09 +0100." Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 05:05:46 -0800 Message-ID: <9321.888930346@time.cdrom.com> From: "Jordan K. Hubbard" Sender: owner-freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > Well, I did actually test it myself when you first announced it but, > > to be perfectly honest, there were so few actual configuration screens > > currently implemented that I thought "hmmmm, nice idea but not enough > > Hmmm.. But this is only a test version! IMHO, you shouldn't expect that > someone writes the _complete_ stuff at this stage, where it wasn't decided > yet which direction to take. I was being honest. Like I said, it's not necessarily _fair_ but these are the criteria that myself and others apply to administration tools. You think you've got it bad? Hah - just think about how the poor compiler writers feel - nobody looks at their stuff until it implements the _full_ programming language. :-) > So, what is the minimal set of tasks that should be implemented in a test > version of admin tool, before you (or someone else from the team) will > consider it "nice AND worth pursuing" ...? It should take over at least one important function currently filled by another (insufficiently sophisticated) tool. One example might be adduser/deluser/edituser functionality. Another might be an rc.conf editor/merge utility. Jordan To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hackers" in the body of the message