From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christopher Allan Webber Subject: Userops Acid Test Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:26:38 -0500 Message-ID: <877fnbstwt.fsf@dustycloud.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Return-path: Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50874) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgEuD-000552-6u for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:34:30 -0400 Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgEu9-0007lA-6k for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:34:29 -0400 Received: from dustycloud.org ([50.116.34.160]:56933) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZgEu9-0007kr-2i for guix-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:34:25 -0400 Received: from earlgrey (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dustycloud.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id CF01A267A6 for ; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 12:34:23 -0400 (EDT) List-Id: "Development of GNU Guix and the GNU System distribution." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sender: guix-devel-bounces+gcggd-guix-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org To: guix-devel@gnu.org Hello all, Some of you might know about my interest in making the world of user-oriented deployment a better one, roughly called "userops". Here's a post with some background: http://mediagoblin.org/news/userops.html I decided it might be useful to list properties I think such a system should provide. So, here's Userops Acid Test v0.1: http://dustycloud.org/blog/userops-acid-test/ These are an implementation-agnostic (or an attempt to be) set of properties that I think a system needs to provide to make deployment fairly easy. I'm interested in helping get Guix to this state; there are some things that Guix does currently on this list really well, and some things it's really lacking at the moment. Anyway, since I'm going to be working on that more over the next few months, I thought I'd make note of this list here... maybe others will find it interesting! - Chris