With the aim of suggesting a way to bring CFEngine to the wider audience it deserves, I am launching a project called Dumbed-down CFEngine (or DDCFE for short, or DDC for shorter). It is a raw draft specification of a simple configuration management language, to be compiled into native CFEngine policies. There is no software yet, rather: it’s a call for action to build one because, to be honest, I have neither the resources nor the qualifications to build it all alone in a reasonable amount of time.

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