On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 7:09 AM, Trevor Vaughan <[email protected]> wrote:
> Sorry to derail for the moment but HOCON + JSON + YAML + XML? Sounds > great..... > Totally agree that we have too many formats. That's why we tried to put a lot of thought into picking one that we think is robust enough to standardize on going forward. :) Also, the current auth.conf format is none of the above, so moving it to any of the above would mean 'n - 1' formats :) > > On Mon, Feb 23, 2015 at 9:57 AM, Chris Price <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Sun, Feb 22, 2015 at 9:18 PM, Eric Sorenson < >> [email protected]> wrote: >> >>> >>> Hi Brice! This project is really cool, thanks for taking it on. I have a >>> few comments about requirements and design that I hope can save some work >>> and make it easier to include this upstream once it's done. >>> >>> I went back and surveyed redmine, jira, and ask.pl.com for bugs around >>> auth.conf to see what people have run into over the years ( >>> https://www.google.com/search?q=site%3Apuppetlabs.com+auth.conf&gws_rd=ssl >>> <https://www.google.com/search?q=site:puppetlabs.com+auth.conf&gws_rd=ssl> >>> ), >>> and from those results plus recalling conversations with #puppet there seem >>> to be a few general categories that we should examine when designing a >>> replacement >>> >>> First, I don't think you need to try to make it compatible with the >>> existing auth.conf format. It'd be good to take the opportunity to move to >>> a structured data format that is easier to read and write programmatically, >>> >> >> It would be cool if we could figure out a way to represent the rules in >> HOCON, since that's the format we're using for pretty much all of our new >> config files going forward. That way, the same modules and tooling that >> we're building up around that data format could be used on the auth stuff, >> and the syntax would start to look more consistent and familiar compared to >> other new puppet config files. Since HOCON is basically a superset of JSON >> I'm thinking that maybe the rules could be written as basically a big array >> of maps. It'd be a little more verbose than the existing syntax, but I >> think the tradeoffs might be worth it. >> >> (This is presuming, of course, that we don't find some other existing >> model that we like, as Eric suggested.) >> >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "Puppet Developers" group. >> To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an >> email to [email protected]. >> To view this discussion on the web visit >> https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAMx1QfL9TvgyWJ5__utWk12CQ3y_q0Wk63uJr6efMxoEk4gLeA%40mail.gmail.com >> <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAMx1QfL9TvgyWJ5__utWk12CQ3y_q0Wk63uJr6efMxoEk4gLeA%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> >> . >> >> For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. >> > > > > -- > Trevor Vaughan > Vice President, Onyx Point, Inc > (410) 541-6699 > [email protected] > > -- This account not approved for unencrypted proprietary information -- > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Puppet Developers" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoVgeG5fYRqa3xkj9%3DKEQBpwB%2BUv%2BbRJsY0LoPTL8BZQ%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com > <https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CANs%2BFoVgeG5fYRqa3xkj9%3DKEQBpwB%2BUv%2BbRJsY0LoPTL8BZQ%3DQ%40mail.gmail.com?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer> > . > > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Puppet Developers" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/puppet-dev/CAMx1QfLpVd2swVDpqvX5Xgtq%3DL7txZTkYKUTHLdOX5vOGUh-4g%40mail.gmail.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
