RFC: Handling resources shared with me

[ryran]

Currently, the only resources ravshello manages that are shareable are blueprints. (For future reference, VM images & disk images are also shareable.)

In managing resources that have been "shared with me", we have a few options:

1. ignore them completely; assume that people will manage them from the Web UI and that no one wants to see them in ravshello
2. show them in a separate per-resource subfolder (e.g., /blueprints/Shared_with_me and in the future, /images/Shared_with_me)
3. show them in a top-level /shared-with-me folder (e.g., /shared-with-me/bps/SOMEBP) -- I don't like this
4. Do 2 or 3 only if ravshello is run with a particular cmdline arg (e.g., --showshared)
5. Do 2 or 3 only after running some command, e.g., /blueprints show_shared, or something like that

[ryran]

For right now, shared bps automatically show up in /blueprints/Shared_with_me but I'm leaning towards hiding them by default and implementing an option. Feedback welcome.

[ajblum]

My preference would be for #5

Do 2 or 3 only after running some command, e.g., /blueprints show_shared, or something like that

I like the idea that you might be working within ravshello and then get the idea that you want to see "all" blueprints even those that were shared with you. Rather than exiting and re-running, you can just issue a new command in the configshell.

Between #2 and #3, I prefer #2 since I'd probably be looking for some blueprint whether its shared or not. I wouldn't want to first do /blueprints ls and then /shared_with_me/bps ls.

I wouldn't like #1 ... because ravshello uses the API directly, I would like for it to always exceed whats possible with the WebUI :)