[Freedombox-discuss] Best way to get involved?

[James Vasile]

On Sun, 05 Feb 2012 21:35:46 +0100, Michael Rauch <l15t at miranet.ch> wrote:
> On 02/05/2012 07:35 PM, James Vasile wrote:
> 
> > Every once in a while I post a list of tasks to this list.  I should put
> > them on a web page.  Here are some current todos.  If you are interested
> > in any of these, please contact me for more information.
> >
> >[...]
> >
> > Config layer design.  We would like the front end to talk to a middle
> > layer that handles system config.  That middle layer then talks to the
> > system and sets options (e.g. by twiddling text files).  No work had
> > been done on that middle layer so far and it needs to be designed from
> > the ground up.
> 
> RedHat's Augeas project might fit in the config middle layer:
> http://augeas.net/
> 
> The website says: "Augeas is a configuration editing tool. It parses 
> configuration files in their native formats and transforms them into a 
> tree. Configuration changes are made by manipulating this tree and 
> saving it back into native config files."

That is a seriously excellent link.  Thank you.  Bdale commented that
storing state in the config files themselves was the way to go and I'm
excited to see work in that direction.  If anybody else is interested in
working on this end of things, please do jump in.