README

Extravahicular-Activity-Admin is a set of GPL tools ment to make administrating Spacewalk 
and RHN Sattellite easier. Most of these scripts ar written in Perl as that is the language 
that the language their developers know best.

  The primary goal of this project is to write new tools that will get either integrated 
into the main spacewalk code base or inspire the development of other tools possibly 
written in python as that seems to be the current most popular language for the tools 
currently being developed in the spacewalk source repositories. These tools should serve to 
supplement the existing tools functionallity

  The secondary Goal of this project is to identify inefficiencies in the current tools and 
come up with methodoligies to correct those inefficiencies. The new methodoligies should 
where ever possible utilize the existing Spacewalk, RedHat Satellite, and RHN API's. That 
being said once more efficient methodoligies are found tested and proven to work they 
should have corrosponding RFE's created or at the very least discussions on the development 
mailing list for Spacewalk, with the intent of where possible improving the existing tool 
or only where more practicle replacing it with the new tool this project has devised.

  The third goal is to identify shortcommings in the current API's. While the developers for 
Spacewalk and Redhat Satellite do a fantastic job no one group of developers can think of 
every thing. This is not a critisizim its just a fact of development which is why GPL 
projects produce the great code they do. That being said its best to give the core developers 
and the comunity developers who contribute in their spare time exact, through, consise, and 
acurete specifications when requesting new features. Its also best to include consise use 
cases as well so their development can be prioritized appropriately.