[hobbit] Future of Hobbit

[Henrik Stoerner]

On Wed, Jan 23, 2008 at 04:09:35PM -0700, Charles Jones wrote:
> 1. 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,

> 2. 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.

> 3. 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.

> 4. 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