[jbosstools-dev] Windup Eclipse Plugin v3.0.0 - Export Windup reports from Eclipse

[Max Rydahl Andersen]

Hey Ian,

This mail got lost in my inbox ;/

> I could have sworn I saw HD versions of all three of the demo videos 
> when
> I first uploaded them. Now looking at them again they are all small 
> and
> grainy. I will have to take a look tonight to see what is going on 
> with
> that.

Let me know if you figured those out ;)

> Yes, the wizard takes the already generated report out of the 
> .metadata
> folder, zips/tars it up and exports it to the location of your choice.
> Also if the report does not already exists then it generates one, and
> there is the option to always generate new report before export as 
> well.

cool.

> As far as adding to the global menu. I did not know where else to put 
> the
> new actions. I do have the export wizard in the export wizards dialog, 
> but
> the other two options to view in the windup report view and to 
> generate
> the windup report need a place to live. Before I first added the menu 
> I
> was chatting with my friend who still commits to WTP about where he 
> would
> put them, because I was worried about clutter, but he said he would 
> create
> a new sub menu as I did.  If you have a better idea for where the 
> "Open in
> Windup Report View" and "Generate Windup Report" actions could live I 
> am
> all ears. The only reason I also added the "Export Windup Report" 
> action
> there as well was because I already had the sub menu and it seemed 
> like a
> logical place a user may look for the export function as well as 
> checking
> the export dialog. But if a new home is found for the other two 
> actions I
> have no problem just having the export wizard live in the export 
> dialog.

The context menu is just waaaaay too crowded for having 'once in a 
while' features
put on all context menus.

I would simply not put them in the context menu by default - you could 
have
a command definition users can enable if they want to but otherwise just
have a command that would be accessible via Ctrl+3 or the wizards.

Or at least only show this if there is a windup report available to the 
project (assuming
that can be detected in sub miliseconds so the menu does not get slow to 
open)

> As far as adding all of this to the jboss-tools project. The biggest
> problem is I still not have a nightly build, and I do not have a 
> nightly
> build for the eclipse plugin because I have not been able to 
> coordinate
> with Brad to get a nightly build for Windup. The biggest issue with
> getting a nightly for windup would be to actually do a windup release 
> and
> start doing windup development in a snapshot version rather than 0.7.0
> where it has been being done for the past year. I did start that
> conversation with Brad a few months back but it stalled out due to 
> life
> events. If you all are ready to make this happen on your end then I 
> can
> start trying to work with Brad again to get Windup versioning 
> stabilized,
> and the nightly builds set up.

as far as I understand Lincoln is getting involved in the migration 
project
so it would make sense to try coordinate the various releases with him 
and Brad.

i've cc'ed him here.

> Blue Skies,
> ~Ian
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Max Rydahl Andersen [mailto:manderse at redhat.com]
> Sent: Monday, February 10, 2014 9:42 AM
> To: Ian Tewksbury
> Cc: jboss-migration at redhat.com; windup-dev at lists.jboss.org;
> jbosstools-dev at lists.jboss.org; Evong Nham; Brad Davis
> Subject: Re: [jbosstools-dev] Windup Eclipse Plugin v3.0.0 - Export 
> Windup
> reports from Eclipse
>
>
>> I have just released version 3.0.0 of the Windup Eclipse plugin. In
>> this new release you can now export Windup reports that are generated
>> in Eclipse. This allows a developer to easily generate a Windup 
>> report
>> in Eclipse and then export it for sharing with whoever requested a
>> Windup report.
>
> Cool.  (I assume its "just" saving the already generated html to a
> separate location?)
>
> Wondering if its time to include this into jboss tools releases ?
>
>> *        Demo Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BbBiQaQj2zk
>
> seem to only be available in 360 resolution - got something bigger so 
> can
> see what happens ?
>
> btw. I noticed Windup is added to the ever growing root context menu.
> shouldn't this not just be via
> the wizard menu or configured first via the Configure submenu instead 
> of
> polluting this context menu ?
>
>> *        Project Page: 
>> https://github.com/windup/windup-eclipse-plugin
>>
>> *        Wiki: https://github.com/windup/windup-eclipse-plugin/wiki
>>
>> *        Windup Project Page: https://github.com/windup/windup
>
> /max


/max
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