[Hawkular-dev] communty distribution question

[Heiko W.Rupp]

On 29 Apr 2016, at 10:44, Gary Brown wrote:
> I think the problem we were looking to address here is making 
> something easily consumable to help build the community.

Exactly.

As a user I want to be able to get Hawkular going in less than 5 minutes 
to try
it and see data on screen.

> 1) The headless server with core services - so providing a community 
> distribution of the server, with instructions on how to set up 
> manageiq/provider. May not be straightforward initially, but this 
> needs to be simplified for the benefit of both manageiq and other 
> projects in Red Hat that are developing "providers".

I do not believe that requiring MiQ to see some data of my standalone
WildFly or IoT device(*) will improve Hawkular adoption.

> So at the moment I don't see a compelling reason for a fully 
> integration community distribution with UI.

To reiterate: we will not support the app server tab going forward,
which may be have been the impression.

*) where IoT devices may possibly never make it into MiQ