ServerLand, centralized server management, enterprise style

[Matthew Palmer]

On Thu, Dec 15, 2005 at 09:02:06PM +0000, Mamading Ceesay wrote:
> Matthew, have you actually used IRM and if so which version, the
> PHP-based IRM or the Python-based IRM2?  How usable is it?

I'm RM for the PHP-based IRM.  It's useable as far as it goes (it was
the asset tracking system at a previous workplace, hence my initial
interest) but it's missing chunks of stuff that people want, which is slowly
being rectified.  The Python-based IRM2 has been in development for longer
than I've been involved in IRM development (a year now) and there's no sign
of it being useable yet.

> I'm interested in working on ServerLand, if I can find the time.  I
> was thinking about starting off by knocking up a web-based inventory
> before I saw the post on IRM.

I'm currently torn between my hatred for rewrites and my new-found love of
Ruby on Rails.  The IRM codebase is ugly (despite my two months of tidying)
but functional, and there are several people now with a real handle on how
it all hangs together at the moment.  I'd certainly recommend at least
assessing IRM (including the new features currently in pre-release) before
starting something else from scratch.

- Matt
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