[Server-devel] [XSCE] xsce and ansible

[Adam Holt]

CORRECTION:
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On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Adam Holt <holt at laptop.org> wrote:

> Sounds great Tim.  Plz all remember to submit your GMail addresses to me
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> On Mon, Oct 21, 2013 at 9:59 AM, Tim Moody <tim at timmoody.com> wrote:
>
>>   The weekly XSCE call (Thur 2PM) was lightly attended last week because
>> many were on their way to SF.  But we did spend some time on the question
>> of moving to ansible as an installation mechanism and the means and timing
>> of doing so.  The consensus on the call was that we should make the move,
>> but that it should be gradual rather than sudden enlightenment.
>>
>> It turns out that because the directory structures of xs-config (
>> github.com/XSCE/xsce) and dxs (activitycentral/dxs ) are substantially
>> different (everything in plugins.d in the former and in roles in the
>> latter) there are no collisions in directory names, so dxs could just be
>> copied into xs-config.  So the process discussed is simply to combine both
>> repos into xsce and then obsolete directories in plugins.d as confidence
>> builds that the ansible playbook for a given feature works.
>>
>> For those on the call, does this summarize what was said?  For those not
>> on the call, does this sound like a viable plan?
>>
>> Tim
>>
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