Starting to put some design docs in Google Code wiki
Lachlan Mulcahy
I've started putting my design docs into the Google Code wiki.
The next step that I'm planning to do is the command-line configurator / interface. This is one of the key missing pieces to making XBM ready for the layman to actually use -- especially with some of the more complex features added recently, it's increasingly more of a hassle to set things up by hand in the DB .. and let's face it, not even I want to be bothered with doing that!! heh..
Anywho.. you can find my functional design proposal on the Google Code wiki here:
http://code.google.com/p/xtrabackup-manager/wiki/DesignDoc
The idea is to have one short command / executable that is a handler for everything -- combining this with using "reasonable defaults" for most things, this should allow scriptable setup of multiple hosts.
This should keep most system admins happy - no need to clickity click through a web interface to set things up if you don't want to.
However, I was contacted by Gil Hildebrand recently, who showed interest in developing a web frontend, which is something I'd really like to see come to XBM. He should now be on this mailing list, so "Hi Gil" and welcome.
So far I think there is just a sprinkling of us here, but I feel positive that as the project becomes accessible to more folks that it will gain some more traction :)
In any case - feel free to review my thoughts on the command-line interface and let me know if you guys have any feedback.
Thanks and Regards,
Lachlan
Gil Hildebrand
Lachlan Mulcahy
I like that idea -- it is also similar to the way the zfs command works.
I might add some notes to the design page to cover that.
Do you have any interest in me setting up wiki, etc. access?
Also - have you had a chance to take a peek at the code base?
Lachlan