[jbosstools-dev] new JBoss Central available from nightly builds

[Martin Malina]

Hi Fred,

Great job! I like the design, it looks clean. And the search is super fast.
What I don't quite like so much is the carousel. You can't control it and it can be a little distracting.
For other arguments see http://shouldiuseacarousel.com <http://shouldiuseacarousel.com/> :) But maybe it's just me :)
And I understand we do want to put the blogs somewhere.

-Martin


> On 27. 4. 2015, at 6:11, Fred Bricon <fbricon at redhat.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> FYI, I’ve merged the current Central/HTML5 rework to jbosstools-central master.
> This means you can see the new Central in action after installing the latest nightly build from http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/mars/ <http://download.jboss.org/jbosstools/updates/nightly/mars/> 
> 
> It’s far from being complete, but you’ll at least get a taste of what’s to come in JBT 4.3/JBDS 9.
> 
> What works :
> - Central is now an html5 page maintained at  https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage> 
> - the page is served from a swt browser widget (using webkit under the hood).
> - about 220 quickstarts are available as of today (some target eap 6.3, other target 6.4)
> - search is craaazy fast, as it is local to the webpage (no round trips to dcp server)
> - it’s fast to load and scales better in small windows, compared to the existing version.
> - proxy wizards are injected to search results
> - external links are opened in a browser window
> - JBoss Buzz results visible as carousel under the title
> - early access label displayed according to EA settings (UI to be reviewed)
> - you can build https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage> locally (after installing node and grunt-cli) and test it by starting Eclipse with -Djboss.central.webpage.url=file:///path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/jbosstools-central-webpage-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.zip <file:///path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/jbosstools-central-webpage-0.0.1-SNAPSHOT.zip> or -Djboss.central.webpage.url=/path/to/jbosstools-central-webpage/target/gruntbuild.
> 
> What doesn’t work :
> - for some reason I just broke the quickstart integration, which used to work, I swear. Will fix it on Monday
> - current webpage is served directly from http://central-fredapp.rhcloud.com/ <http://central-fredapp.rhcloud.com/>, I need to get https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage <https://github.com/jbosstools/jbosstools-central-webpage> built from Jenkins and deployed to Nexus. At least that gives us some good flexibility in terms of maintenance.
> - search engine uses staging dcpbeta-searchisko.rhcloud.com/ <http://dcpbeta-searchisko.rhcloud.com/> service, instead of dcp.jboss.org <http://dcp.jboss.org/>
> - The development workflow isn’t finalized yet. I need to set up and tune grunt watch, so that changes in html/js/sass can be picked up directly from eclipse.
> - title still too big, needs to scale down
> - offline mode is not supported (both for central and the quickstarts, groovy script not update yet)
> - quickstarts not integrated to the existing project examples wizard
> - legacy examples are not displays in the results, yet.
> - project requirements not inferred yet (from existing metadata?)
> - project tags should be added
> - maybe find another default icon for quickstarts.
> - layout needs to be tuned (needs to scale on 3 cols, instead of 4 and 2 currently)
> - needs some tabzilla-like button (see the red hat at top right of http://tools.jboss.org/ <http://tools.jboss.org/>) to display show on startup
> - APIs are in still unstable, expect them to break.
> -  you might notice some slight font flickering, due to the carousel script. I tried to minimize it but it’s still visible in the search bar’s hint text
> - many other small stuff that are missing, that I can’t think of right now.
> 
> So, give it a try, we’d be happy to hear some feedback, good or bad, ideas to make it better (JIRA is your friend).
> 
> Fred
> 
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