Open to large-scale refactoring away from params style?

[jorhett]

I personally think that it would be a significant improvement to

• minimize the use of hardcoded values that change from version to version
• use modern Hiera data instead of the params.pp style
• support modern "config-less" slurmd

Are you open to receiving a large-scale refactoring such as this, or should I fork the module if I want to go in that direction?

Agreeing to discuss a refactor != accepting my changes unquestioned, I'm just trying to qualify if you are open to considering it.

[hcartiaux]

Hi @jorhett

That would be awesome, I'm open to the idea and will happily accept PRs. Config-less has been on our todo-list for a long time...

Note that this module was mainly developed by a @Falkor, who left our team 2 years ago, and we do not have the resources to extensively test/develop this module beyond the usual maintenance commits...

On my side, I have testing virtual machines, but I've not maintained the testing workflow based on Vagrant. So if a PR requires a non-trivial change on our production system, I may take time to test/validate.

Best,

Hyacinthe