[Freeipa-devel] Other issues with HBAC calendar

[Simo Sorce]

On Wed, 24 Nov 2010 11:26:05 -0500
Dmitri Pal <dpal at redhat.com> wrote:

> Steven, please think about the case when the rule needs to be edited
> in UI and it has some value for DD - say 1.
> What you display in UI then? If you do not allow to enter days and you
> not allow more than 24 hours in the hour field you will fail to
> translate the rule to the proposed UI.
> The only option would be to show the raw rule in this case. IMO this
> does not seem like the best option to me.

May not be the best but it is perfectly reasonable.

> I think the DD is redundant and other means should be used to schedule
> windows bigger than 2 days however the HH should IMO allow 1-48 ours
> to allow specifying a week end outage like:
> from 1AM Sat to 11PM Sun. If it is more than 2 days it is reasonable
> to ask to split the rule into several slices.

I think this is not reasonable at all, it is an arbitrary limit due to
the "current" thinking around the UI, if you change mind about the UI
tomorrow, you will be left with the constraint in the grammar.
This is just backwards.

Simo.

-- 
Simo Sorce * Red Hat, Inc * New York