I like both of these things, and both can really be done already. We can certainly try to make the experience simpler.

I think both of these things get easier if we start to deliver windup as a web-application.

On Wed, Sep 2, 2015 at 2:08 PM, Brad Davis <bdavis@redhat.com> wrote:
Sure; makes sense to me. I figured you would just comment out XML rules but there isn't a way to do that with Java rules. Rule name is fine though.

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> On Sep 2, 2015, at 2:01 PM, Jess Sightler <jsightle@redhat.com> wrote:
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>> On 08/04/2015 10:41 AM, Brad Davis wrote:
>> I'd like to have the following features, but wanted to get everyone's feedback.
>>
>> 1) The ability to read in effort from the XML files.
>>
>> User Story: User runs Windup report and doesn't agree with the effort estimate.  They would like to change the effort for a Java rule and rerun Windup, but aren't technical enough to recompile Windup.
>> Proposed Solution: Having a utility that we could use to easily look up a property from the Windup XML configuration would be a great solution for this.  That way, it makes it easy for people to modify the effort.
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>> 2) The ability to override and disable rules from the XML.
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>> User Story: A Java rule is not providing anticipated output and needs to be excluded from the report.
>> Proposed Solution: Have a simple registry of disabled rules in the XML, where the qualified Java class is provided that needs to be disabled / skipped.
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> I think this is a good idea, although I think that we should base it on
> the Rule Provider ID (or optionally rule id) rather than on the class name.
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>> Brad Davis
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