[augeas-devel] Collabograte project

[Kartik Subbarao]

On 03/12/2012 07:52 PM, David Lutterkort wrote:
> On Wed, 2012-03-07 at 14:20 -0500, Kartik Subbarao wrote:
>> I'm making solid use of Augeas as a configuration tool in the open
>> source Collabograte project that I recently announced:
>>
>> http://kartiksubbarao.com/announcing-collabograte
>>
>> Slides 10 and 11 in the presentation highlight the value of using Augeas.
>
> Nice; I am glad you find Augeas useful for your project; do you use it
> directly or via puppet ?

Thanks David. In Collabograte, I'm using Augeas via puppet -- Augeas is 
used wherever possible in the manifests for changes to configuration files.

I've been a big fan of Augeas overall since I saw the Red Hat Summit 
presentation in 2008. I thought YES, THIS is the way that I've always 
wanted to manage configuration files! The syntax can sometimes get 
challenging for me, but the functionality has been worth the learning 
curve :-)

With Collabograte, I'd like to see if we can contribute some lenses 
(e.g. a lens for Sympa's /etc/sympa/sympa.conf file), and enhancements 
to current ones. For instance, to enhance the Postfix main.cf lens to 
support "array" parameters so that we can append to them instead of 
overwriting them. I'd like to be able say something like:

set virtual_alias_maps/[last()+1] 
regexp:/etc/postfix/something_virtual_regexp

Thanks again for all of your ongoing work on Augeas!

Regards,

	-Kartik