[Cfengine-develop] Development plan / meeting

[Mark . Burgess]

We need some kind of plan for getting started and coming to
an agreement about goals and timelines with cfengine.

Some projects are small, some are large, some lead to compatibility,
others sacrifice compatibility for excellence. I have some definite
goals for the future, and I am open to suggestions. 

I would like to avoid too much email - I get enough already, and part
of the reason for delegating and enlisting help is to get away from
the computer. We have options:

 - a workshop to kickstart development (where? when?)
 - a purely e-mail discussion that converges quickly (like a
   good cfengine policy) to a concise plan


My broad goals with compatibility:

 * objects with scope (self-contained cfengine sub-routines)
    - cfengine 2.1.0, main problem is how to express this possiblity in the
      cfengine language, preserving convergence, even with recursion
    
 * a model for peer 2 peer policy exchange
    - cfengine 2.2.0, requires research and simulation

Goals abandoning compatibilty

 * Redesign/simplification of language and parser

Anything else is open to discussion.

Mark

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