Bug#1100571: ITP: mgmt -- next generation config management

[Thomas Goirand]

Package: wnpp
Severity: wishlist
Owner: Thomas Goirand <***@debian.org>
X-Debbugs-Cc: debian-***@lists.debian.org

* Package name : mgmt
Version : 0.0.26.git.2024.10.25.85e1d6c0e8
Upstream Contact: James Shubin <***@shubin.ca>
* URL : https://github.com/purpleidea/mgmt
* License : GPL-3
Programming Lang: Go
Description : next generation config management

Mgmt is a real-time automation tool. It is familiar to existing configuration
management software, but is drastically more powerful as it can allow you to
build real-time, closed-loop feedback systems, in a very safe way, and with a
surprisingly small amount of our mcl code. For example, the following code
will ensure that your file server is set to read-only when it's friday.
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It can run continuously, intermittently, or on-demand, and in the first case,
it will guarantee that your system is always in the desired state for that
instant! In this mode it can run as a decentralized cluster of agents across
your network, each exchanging information with the others in real-time, to
respond to your changing needs.

[Simon Richter]

Hi,

Post by Thomas Goirand
Description : next generation config management

[...]

Can you reword the description so that it reads less like an
advertisement? "next generation", compared to what?

Simon

[Jonathan Dowland]

For example, the following code will ensure that your file server is
set to read-only when it's friday.

This needs adjusting: there is no "following code" (and it probably
doesn't belong in a package description anyway)