Revisor 2.1.0... I want it to get out about the same time Fedora 9 is released.

What are the changes?

For one, it has documentation. The Revisor Manual.odt needs a lot of work still, and it is merely content whereas the form it is going to be presented in isn't set in stone yet. We could do a .pdf to go to /usr/share/doc/revisor-%{version}/Revisor Manual.pdf, but if someone wants to make it DocBookXML/yelp/XHTML/whatever, that'd be great to go into the regular Fedora Documenation process... Anyway, there is a little documentation, more then there was before. Contributions are very much welcome.

Modules. Plugins. Whatever you call them, they are cool. Really, they are. No doubt about it. What do they do?

The GUI is a module in 2.1.0, and as such, Revisor does not pull in too many unnecessary packages the GUI depends upon anymore. To install the GUI, people will still be able to use 'yum install revisor', which is now a meta-package. For CLI capabilities only, people should start using 'yum install revisor-cli'.

Besides the other modules for cobbler, deltarpm, jigdo, server and virtualization, in 2.1.0 you can now write your own module, and stick it in. How someone can write a plugin and stick it in, is ... obscure. Another reason for the documentation to take shape ;-) Basically it comes down to these modules having hooks that are to be executed by the Revisor base program.

One of the coolest uses for modules we have seen so far comes from Yaakov Nemoy, who has been working on getting the client/server model done, in which the client could very well be the much anticipated Web Interface(TM). More work to be done here ;-)

Now, getting back to work on shaping up 2.1.0 some more, with some background noise some people describe as "Alternative Rock"