On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
- Getting Hobbit added to major linux distributions
Would be nice. This is one area of Hobbit work where everyone on this list can make a contribution. Hobbit includes a "hobbit.spec" file for building rpm packages, and the Debian folks already have .deb's, so for most distro's it would be very little work to add Hobbit,
- Moving away from "legacy" filenames and variables.
The bb-hosts file is about the only one left. My intention has been to keep that name until Hobbit moved away from the file format in bb-hosts; something which I've been wanting to do for a while. The bb-hosts format is getting rather overloaded, and I really don't like the way it mixes the host configuration with the web page layout definitions. So this is going to change sometime.
- Encryption of Hobbit data transmissions. I get this seemingly every time that I am explaining Hobbit..."is the data encrypted?" When I say no its *gasp!* "But it is sending sensitive information, process lists, logfile entries...over the network!".
Yeah ... well, I should add some SSL support to the protocol.
- Maybe a new website? [...] I know Henrik has said in the past that he is not a web or UI designer, so perhaps we can find volunteers to spruce things up.
Yes - please!
Regards, Henrik