Open Stack

On 04/27/2015 02:33 PM, Elizabeth K. Joseph wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 26, 2015 at 5:08 PM, Spencer Krum <krum.spencer at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hi All,
>>
>> The primary maintainer of puppetboard is stepping aside:
>> https://github.com/puppet-community/puppetboard/issues/132. We use
>> puppetboard to display facts from machines and reports of puppet runs. We
>> can expect to continue to have this need into puppet 4 and puppet apply. I
>> like the idea of infra trying to help this project (we've already landed a
>> couple features) but I know we have to be strategic in where we put our
>> efforts. There is nothing wrong with our current installation (in fact it
>> could use an upgrade, it is almost a year out of date).
>>
>> There are at least two open source options if we wanted to look at
>> switching: Puppet-explorer: https://github.com/spotify/puppetexplorer and
>> Panopuppet: https://github.com/propyless/panopuppet
> 
> As a data point, prior to puppetboard, we used Puppet Dashboard, a
> fork of which we considered:
> https://github.com/sodabrew/puppet-dashboard
> 
> At the recent PuppetCampSF, author sodabrew did a talk on his plans
> for version 2, following a have-kids hiatus on the project. He's not
> planning on making distro-based packages (his expertise and time is
> better spent on project dev), but it may be worth considering again
> anyway.
> 
> Refresher, this is the bug report from the last time we did this,
> includes what we evaluated then:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/openstack-ci/+bug/1218631
> 
> It would be awesome if we didn't have to do this every year :\
> 
I'll also note that both puppetexplorer and panopuppet essentially have
one active developer apiece right now.

Not that that helps sway one way or the other.

Thanks,
Anita.